Prith Banerjee (ANSYS)

Future of Simulation-Based Product Innovation in the Digital World

Charbel Farhat (Stanford University)

Discrete-Event-Free Embedded Boundary Methods for Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization

Wing Kam Liu (Northwestern University)

Hierarchical Deep Learning Neural Networks: Finite Elements and Beyond

Stewart Silling (Sandia National Laboratories)

Peridynamics and Its Applications

Semi-Plenary Speakers:

Pavel Bochev (Sandia National Laboratories)

The Amazing Powers of Generalized Moving Least-Squares

Blair Carlson (General Motors)

Applications and Needs of FEMs in Automotive Manufacturing

J.S. Chen (UC-San Diego)

A Variational Multiscale Immersed RKPM for Fluid-Structure Interaction in Air Blast

Marc Alexander Schweitzer (University of Bonn and Fraunhofer SCAI)

PUMA - A Rapid Enriched Simulation Framework based on a Partition of Unity Approach

Srini Sundararajan (Ford)

Kenji Takada (Honda)

Large Deformation and Fracture Calculation of Automobile Frames using Isogeometric Analysis