Our confirmed plenary speakers

Patrick CIARLET, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (FR)
Patrick CIARLET, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (FR)Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics
Professor Ciarlet currently works at the Department of Applied Mathematics, at ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. His research interests include modeling in electromagnetics and neutronic diffusion, as well as numerical analysis of PDEs.
Marcus J. GROTE, University of Basel (CH)
Marcus J. GROTE, University of Basel (CH)Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Professor Grote currently works at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel. His research interests include: applied and computational mathematics, and more specifically computational wave propagation.
Anna PANDOLFI, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Anna PANDOLFI, Politecnico di Milano (IT)Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Pandolfi is currently teaching Structural and Solid Mechanics at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests include: Broad field of computational mechanics. Constitutive modelling of materials: materials with internal structure, metamaterials, biomaterials. Biomechanics of soft tissues. Frictional contact mechanics. Cohesive, energy and variational approaches to fracture mechanics. Space and time discretization methods. Mesh-adaption algorithms for finite elements.
Julien YVONNET, Université Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Julien YVONNET, Université Gustave Eiffel (FR)Professor, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Group
Professor Yvonnet specializes in these fields of research: Numerical modeling of complex materials, computational homogenization, multiscale methods for solid materials, fracture and interface modeling, nanomechanics, forming processes simulation, numerical methods.
Weihong ZHANG, Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
Weihong ZHANG, Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)Professor, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Manufacturing Engineering
Professor Weihong Zhang currently works in the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Manufacturing Engineering, at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He specializes in research on these topics: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Advanced Structures and Materials, Computational Mechanics of Solids and Structures and Computational Mechanics and simulation of Manufacturing Process.