Confirmed Plenary and Semi-Plenary Speakers of                     COMPDYN 2015 and UNCECOMP 2015

• Sondipon Adhikari, Swansea University, UΚ
  "Homogenization And Ergodicity Of Random Lattices – A Physics Based Approach"
• Domniki Asimaki, California Institute of Technology, USA
  "Beyond Horizontally Layered Soils: Site Effects in Three-Dimensions"
• Ivan Au, University of Liverpool, UK
  "Bayesian Operational Modal Analysis: Theory, Practice and Uncertainty Laws"
• Alemdar Bayraktar, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey
  "Structural Health Assessment of Engineering Structures"
• Dimitrios Beskos, University of Patras, Greece
  "Seismic Pounding Between Adjacent Buildings: Effects of Structural Arrangement and Multiple Earthquakes"
• Christian Bucher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  "Application of Asymptotic Sampling to Structural Reliability Problems"
• Alain Combescure, INSA de Lyon, France
  "Non-Intrusive FEM SPH Code Coupling for Simulation of Accidental Situations Involving Fluid-Structure Interaction"
• Charbel Farhat, Stanford University, USA
  "ECSW: An Energy-Based Structure-Preserving Hyper Reduction Method for the Real-Time Processing of Nonlinear Finite Element Dynamic Models of Solids and Structures"
• Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University, USA
  "Probabilistic Models for Microstructures and Estimates of Extreme Material Response"
• Alexander Idesman, Texas Tech University, USA
  "Accurate Modelling of Elastic and Acoustic Wave Propagation in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Materials"
• Hector Jensen, University of Chile, Chile
  "The Use of Model Reduction Techniques for Reliability Based Design of Updated Finite Element Models: A Bayesian Formulation"
• Boris Jeremić, University of California Davis, USA
  "Dynamics of Soils and Structures under Uncertainty"
• Andreas Kappos, City University London, UK - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  "Full-Range Analysis of the Inelastic Response of Reinforced Concrete Members"
• George Karniadakis, Brown University, USA
  "Fifteen Years Research on UQ"
• Steen Krenk, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  "Beyond Second-Order Time Integration in Non-linear Dynamics"
• Jie Li, Tongji University, China
  "Uncertainty Propagation in Physical Systems: Recent Developments of Probability Density Evolution Theory"
• Olivier Le Maitre, CNRS, France
  “Variance Decomposition Techniques for Sensitivity Analysis in Stochastic/Noisy Models with Uncertain Parameters”
• Hermann G. Matthies, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
  "Non-Intrusive Low-Rank Uncertainty Quantification and Inverse Problems"
• Costas Papadimitriou, University of Thessaly, Greece
  "Computational Challenges in Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification of Large-Order Models"
• James Ricles, Lehigh University, USA
  “Developments in Computational Dynamics to Enable Large-Scale Real-time Hybrid Simulation for Advancing Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering”
• Daniel J. Rixen, TUM, Germany
  "Model Reduction of Non-Linear Structural Dynamic Model: Recent Developments"
• Christian Soize, Université Paris-Est, France
  "Stochastic Representations and Statistical Inverse Identification for Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Mechanics"
• Bruno Sudret, ETC, Switzerland
  "Sparse polynomial chaos expansions for solving high-dimensional UQ problems”
• Dirk Vandepitte, KU Leuven, Belgium
  "Identification of Uncertainty and Quantification of Variability in Woven Composite Materials Based on Carbon Fibre Weaves"
• Yeong-Bin Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  "A Rigid-Body-Qualified Plate Theory for Nonlinear Analysis of Structures with Torsional Actions"
• Yuan Yong, Tongji University, PRC
  "Seismic Analysis of Long Tunnel: Simplified or Unified "
• Shinobu Yoshimura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  "Role of Petascale Simulation of Real World's Complex Structure Attacked by Strong Earthquake"
• Nicholas Zabaras, University of Warwick, UK
  "Graph Theoretic Models for the Solution of Stochastic Multiscale Problems"