Conference Symposia:

KEYNOTE LECTURES

	Monday, August 9 at 8:30am
	Franz-Josef Ulm, Ph.D. George Macomber Professor Massachusetts Institute ot Technology Lecture Title: From Atoms to Concrete Structures: A Shift of Paradigm
	Monday, August 9 at 1:00pm
	Peter Kuhn, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cell Biology The Scripps Research Institute Lecture Title: The Fluid Phase Biopsy of Solid Tumors - Quantitative diagnostics for personalized cancer therapy management
	Tuesday, August 10 at 8:30am
	James L. Beck, Ph.D. Professor of Engineering and Applied Science California Institute of Technology Lecture Title: System Identification and Robust Predictions Using Probability as a Logic
	Tuesday, August 10 at 1:00pm
	Robert D. Moser, Ph.D. Reese Professor of Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Lecture Title: Turning Data into Predictions: Calibration, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Models of Complex Physical Systems
	Wednesday, August 11 at 8:30am
	Robert W. Zimmerman, Ph.D. Chair in Rock Mechanics Imperial College Lecture Title: Developments in Poroelasticity
	Wednesday, August 11 at 1:00pm
	Paul M. Torrens, Ph.D. Associate Professor Arizona State University Lecture Title: Animating Agents Through Space and Time

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

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Schedule of Sessions

Schedule of Presentations

SYMPOSIA TOPICS
The following is a list of topics that will be the focus of this year's EMI Conference.

• Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials
  (Submitted by: Dinesh Katti; Christian Hellmich)
   
• Coastal Hazards
  (Submitted by: Wenrui Huang; Qin Chen)
   
• Computational Fluid Mechanics
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Computational Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
  (Submitted by: Haim Waisman; Jacob Fish)
   
• Computational Mechanics (Student Paper Competition)
  (Submitted by: Loukas Kallivokas)
   
• Constitutive and Fracturing Behavior of Quasi-Brittle Materials: Computation and Experiments
  (Submitted by: Gianluca Cusatis; Zdenek Bazant)
   
• Constitutive Modeling and Computational Analysis of Cementitious Materials and Structures - In Honor of Kaspar Willam
  (Submitted by: Yunping Xi)
   
• Coussy Memorial Symposium
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Dynamics
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Dynamics and Control of Multibody Systems
  (Submitted by: Firdaus Udwadia; Aaron Schutte)
   
• Earth-based and Bio-Inspired Design
  (Submitted by: Eduardo Divo)
   
• Elasticity
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Emerging Sensor Systems and Health Assessment Techniques for Next-Generation Structural Health Monitoring
  (Submitted by: Kenneth Loh; Jerome Lynch)
   
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Experimental Mechanics
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Experimental Micromechanics
  (Submitted by: Christopher Bobko)
   
• Experiments and Modeling for the Mechanics of Soil Erosion
  (Submitted by: Nadia Saiyouri; Ching Chang)
   
• Forward and Inverse Problems of Wave Propagation and Scattering in Heterogeneous Media
  (Submitted by: Loukas Kallivokas; Dominic Assimaki)
   
• Granular Materials
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Inelastic Behavior
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Innovative Instrumentation and Experimental Methods in Engineering Mechanics Research
  (Submitted by: Steve Cai; Asad Esmaeily)
   
• Micromechanics of Granular Geomaterials
  (Submitted by: Anil Misra; Pierre-Yves Hicher)
   
• Mixing and Transport in Fluid Flows
  (Submitted by: Keh-Han Wang; H. Das)
   
• Multiscale Aspects of Stability in Granular Media
  (Submitted by: John Peters; Mustafa Alsaleh)
   
• Multiscale Behavior of Damage and Failure Mechanics
  (Submitted by: Lizhi Sun; Woody Ju)
   
• Multiscale Failure Mechanics of Particulate Materials
  (Submitted by: Richard Regueiro; Gianluca Cusatis)
   
• Multiscale Modeling and Computations
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• New Trends in Microporomechanics
  (Submitted by: Bernhard Pichler; Christian Hellmich)
   
• Nonlinear Oscillations and Instabilities of Advanced Structures Including MEMS and NEMS
  (Submitted by: Jose Balthazar; Paulo Batista Goncalves; Romesh Batra)
   
• Optimization and Robust Design
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Pavement and Materials: Characterization and Modeling
  (Submitted by: Rafiqul Tarefder; Linbing Wang)
   
• Poromechanics
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Probabilistic Methods Properties of Materials
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Stability
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Stability of Solids and Structures
  (Submitted by: Pizhong Qiao; Dinar Camotim)
   
• Structural Health Monitoring
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Structural Identification and Damage Detection
  (Submitted by: Costas Papadimitriou; Lambros Katafygiotis)
   
• The Nonlinear Behavior of Rubberlike Solids: Experimental Characterization and Modeling
  (Submitted by: Luis Dorfmann; Jim Kelly)
   
• Turbulence
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Uncertainty Quantification in Mechanics
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)
   
• Verification and Validation
  (Submitted by: EMI Technical Committee)