Congress Minisymposia


Below is a current list of Congress Minisymposia. 

100: Honorary Minisymposia

200: Scientific machine learning / artificial intelligence / data-driven methods

201 - Bridging Data and Physics: Computational Approaches to Solving PDEs, Lu Zhang, Min Wang

202 - Nonlocality and Machine Learning, Yue Yu, Stewart Silling, Florin Bobaru

203 - Scientific Deep Learning for Forward and Inverse Problems Governed by PDEs, Tan Bui-Thanh

204 - Synergistic Computational Mechanics + Machine Learning for the Digital Twinning of Intelligent Vehicles, Gianmarco Mengaldo, Rajeev Jaiman, Wrik Mallik, Romit Maulik

205 - Accelerating Inference and Outer-Loop Analysis with Data-Driven Surrogate Models, Zachary Morrow, John Jakeman

206 - Neural Differentiable Physics: Unifying Numerical PDEs and Deep Learning via Differentiable Programming, Nikolaos Bouklas, Jianxun Wang

207 - Advances in Model Reduction and Scientific Machine Learning for Large-Scale Dynamical Systems, Parisa Khodabakhshi, Elnaz Seylabi, Steven Rodriguez

208 - Advances in Causal Discovery and Graphical Models, Jonas Actor, Elise Walker, Yue Yu

209 - Intersections of Scientific Machine Learning and Classical Computational Approaches, Jonas Actor, Anthony Gruber

210 - Scientific Machine Learning for Geophysical Applications, Gianmarco Mengaldo, Romit Maulik, Giovanni Stabile, Rajeev Jaiman

211 - Scientific Machine Learning Methods for Complex Dynamical Systems, Sourav Dutta, Matthew Farthing Clint Dawson

212 - Data-Scarce Learning in Computational Mechanics Applications, Audrey Olivier, Michael Shields Lori Graham-Brady

213 - Constrained Generative Modeling for Computational Mechanics, James Warner, Geoffrey Bomarito, Michael Stanley, Patrick Leser, Paul Leser

214 - Data-Enhanced Modeling, Uncertainty Quantification, and Information Fusion for Systems with Multiple Fidelities, Alex Gorodetsky, Mike Eldred, Gianluca Geraci, John Jakeman

215 - Machine Learning Methods for Data Assimilation Under Uncertainty, Eric Darve, Tiffany Fan, Diego Rossinelli, Tony Zahtila, Murray Cutforth

216 - Scientific Machine Learning in Computational Mechanics, Aditya Venkatraman, David Montes de Oca Zapiain, Nathan K. Brown, Andreas E. Robertson

217 - Assessing and Enhancing Trustworthiness in Scientific Machine Learning Models, Rileigh Bandy, Moe Khalil

218 - Foundations of Digital Twins, Omar Ghattas, Stefan Henneking, Sreeram Venkat

219 - Data-Driven Dimension and Data Reduction Strategies for Computational Science, Gianluca Geraci

220 - Advances in Data-Driven Surrogate and Constitutive Modeling for Solid Mechanics, Nick Vlassis, Dennis Kochmann, Ryan Sills, Jian-Xun Wang

221 - Physics-Guided and Data-Driven Predictions for Solid Mechanics, Yue Yu, Jiun-Shyan Chen, Qizhi He, WaiChing Sun, Nikolaos Vlassis

222 - Machine Learning for Material Property Prediction, Design, and Discovery, Azadeh Sheidaei, Pania Newell, Yue Yu, Danial Faghihi

223 - Machine Learning and AI in Constitutive Modeling of Complex Materials, Adrian Buganza Tepole, Francisco Sahli-Costabal, Ellen Kuhl, Nikolaos Bouklas, Steve Waiching Sun, Jan Fuhg, Nick Vlassis

224 - Advances in Hybrid PDE-ML and Multiscale Modeling for Robust Fluid Dynamics Simulations, Emil Constantinescu, Francis Giraldo

225 - Advancing Computational Mechanics with Symbolic Regression, Geoffrey Bomarito, Patrick Leser, John Emery, Jacob Hochhalter, Gabriel Kronberger

226 - Machine Learning-Based Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization in Advanced Manufacturing and Multiphysical Properties of Materials, Zhongshu Ren, Qingchang Liu, Zhengtao Gan, Moon-ki Choi, Yue Zhang, Sourav Saha, Yu Pan, Ning Liu

300: biomechanics / computational biology / biosystems

301 - Computational Models and Methods for Predicting Cancer Growth and Treatment Response, Guillermo Lorenzo Gomez, Ryan Woodall, David A. Hormuth II, Michael R. A. Abdelmalik, Russell C. Rockne, Alessandro Reali, Thomas E. Yankeelov, Thomas J. R. Hughes

302 - Multiphysics and Data-Driven Modeling for Cardiovascular Biomedicine, Debanjan Mukherjee, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Ming-Chen Hsu

303 - Advances in Computational Biomechanics and Mechaniobiology, David Pierce, Corey Neu, Stéphane Avril, Paul Watton

400: Soft Materials

401 - Modern Computational Methods in Soft Matter Mechanics, Nikolaos Bouklas, Hossein Salahshoor, Berkin Dortdivanlioglu, Aditya Kumar

402 - Multiscale Mechanics of Soft Matter Networks Polymers, Living Tissues and Swarms, Franck Vernerey, Krishna Garikipati, Brian Cox

500: Solid mechanics and materials

501 - Computational Modeling of Response to Severe Loadings, Kent Danielson, Stephen Beissel, Mike Puso, David Littlefield

502 - Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Material Damage and Failure, Lampros Svolos, Mostafa Mobasher, Tao Jin, Aditya Kumar, Hashem Mourad, Haim Waisman

503 - Advanced Computational and Experimental Techniques for Threaded Fastener Analysis, John Mersch, Sharlotte Kramer

504 - Computational Interface and Contact Mechanics, Michael Puso, Peter Wriggers, Jerome Solberg

505 - Multiscale Modeling of Dynamics in Complex Media and Materials, Alireza Amirkhizi, Reza Abedi, Arun Prakash

506 - Advances in Discretization Techniques, Element Technology, Mesh Adaptivity, and Solution Strategies for Inelasticity, Contact, Localization, and Failure, James Foulk, Alejandro Mota, David Noble, Michael Buche, Brandon Talamini, Michael Tupek, Julian Rimoli, N. Sukumar

507 - Heterogeneous Materials: From Rocks and Timber to Concrete, Composites and Alloys, Francisco Andrade Pires

508 - Novel Techniques in Constitutive Model Calibration for Computational Mechanics, Craig Hamel, Coleman Alleman, D. Thomas Seidl, Andrew J. Stershic

509 - Phase-Field Models of Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture in Solids Under Quasi-Static and Dynamic Loading Conditions, Oscar Lopez-Pamies, John Dolbow

510 - Mechanics and Design of Entangled Filament Networks, Xiaoxiao (Catherine) Ding, Konstantinos Karapiperis, Vishal Patil, Liwei Wang

511 - Recent Advances in Computational Fracture Mechanics and Failure Analysis, Yoshitaka Wada, Hiroshi Okada, Xiaosheng Gao, Ayhan Ince, Toshio Nagashima, Adrian Loghin

512 - Meshtrends 2025: Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, Steve Owen, Franck Ledoux, Rao Garimella

513 - Modeling, Computation, and Experiments for Materials and Structures in Extreme Environments, Yuri Bazilevs, Pradeep Guduru, Vikas Srivastava

514 - Mechanics and Physics of Interfaces - From the Atomatic Scale to the Macroscale, Nikhil Chandra Admal, Giacomo Po, Enrique Martinez

515 - Battery Modeling and Computation: From Material to Device, Jun Xu, Bin Li, Chao Hu, Wei Lu

516 - Damage and Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Coupling in Soft Materials, Maryam Shakiba

600: Fluid mechanics

601 - Computational Methods in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Eirik Valseth, Ethan Kubatko, Kazuo Kashiyama Clint Dawson

602 - Advanced Data-Driven Methods for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Flows, Trung Bao Le, Mohammed Elbaz

700: multi-phase mechanics and fluid structure interactions

701 - Phase Field Modeling and Computation, Yu Leng, Marco ten Eikelder, Laura de Lorenzis, Hector Gomez, Harald van Brummelen, Makrand Khanwale

702 - Numerical Methods and Models for Compressible Multiphase Flows, Eric Johnsen, Ziyang Huang

703 - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI): Method Development and Applications, Jinhui Yan, Georgios Moutsanidis, John Evans, Hugo Casquero, Artem Korobenko, Ming-Chen Hsu

704 - Numerical Methods for Multiphysics Coupling of Eulerian and Lagrangian Domains, Scott Miller, Jesse Thomas, Francesco Costanzo, Justin Kauffman, John Gilbert

900: advanced manufacturing

901 - Modeling and Simulation for Advanced Manufacturing of Metals, Jason Mayeur, Matthew Priddy, John Coleman, Matthew Rolchigo, Steve DeWitt, Bruno Turcksin, Daniel Moser

902 - Precision Delivery of Complex Fluids, Sheldon Wang, Dalong Gas

903 - Advances in Digital Twin Modeling of Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing, Craig Hamel, Devin Roach, Lucas Gallup

904 - Advances in Digital Manufacturing, Rekha Rao, Marek Behr, Alec Kucala, Stefanie Elgeti, Kevin Long, Jeremy Lechman, David Noble

905 - Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, Albert To, Andreas Lundback, Gregory Wagner, Yuichiro Koizumi, Stefan Kollmannsberger, Ashley Spears, Dan Moser, Michael Stender, Theron Rodgers

906 - Towards Predicting the Process-Microstructure-Property Relationship in Additively Manufactured Materials, Tianchen Hu, Mark Messner, Wen Jiang, Stephanie Pitts, Sudipta Biswas

907 - Computational Advancements in Digital Twins for Advanced Manufacturing: From Design to Performance Prediction, Satyajit Mojumder, Narasimha Boddeti, Alberto Ciampaglia, Lin Cheng

1000: novel computational methods / algorithms

1001 - Advances in High Fidelity Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods, Jacob Merson, Jacob Fish, Martin Berzins, Somnath Ghosh, Narayana Aluru, Onkar Sahni, Osama Raisuddin

1002 - Model Order Reduction for Parametrized Continuum Mechanics, Nawfal Blal, Youngsoo Choi, Ye Lu, Masayuki Yano, Matthew Zahr

1003 - Stabilized and Multiscale Methods and Applications in Machine Learning and Physics Constrained Data Driven Modeling, Guillermo Hauke, Isaac Harari, Arif Masud

1004 - Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling for Energy Storage Systems, Filippo Agnelli, H. Alicia Kim, Krishna Garikipati

1005 - Recent Advances in Computational Methods and Theories for Multiphysics Challenges, Jeong-Hoon Song, Wen Jiang, Benjamin Spencer, Tianchen Hu

1006 - Advancing Computational Mechanics with Polygonal and Polyhedral Discretization Methods, Joseph Bishop, Gianmarco Manzini, N. Sukumar

1007 - Isogeometric Methods, Trond Kvamsdal, Yuri Bazilevs, David J. Benson, Rene de Borst, Thomas J. R. Hughes, Alessandro Realli, Giancarlo Sangalli, Clemens V. Verhoosel

1008 - Novel Discretization Techniques for Hyperbolic PDEs, Aditya Pandare, Svetlana Tokareva, Elena Gaburro

1009 - Geometric Mechanics Formulations and Structure-Preserving Discretizations for Models of Physical Systems, Christopher Eldred, Brian Tran, Artur Palha, Anthony Gruber

1010 - New Trends in Numerical Methods for Multi-Material Compressible Flows, Raphaël Loubere, Pierre-Henri Maire, Mikhail Shashkov, Christopher Malone, Robert Rieben, Francois Vilar, Antonio Gil

1011 - Advances and Applications in Meshfree and Particle Methods, Zhen Chen, Joe Bishop, Jiun-Shyan Chen, Sheng-Wei Chi Chi, John Foster, Michael Hillman, Marc Alexander Schweitzer, C.T. Wu

1012 - Residual Minimizing Finite Element Techniques, Leszek Demkowicz, Jay Gopalakrishnan

1013 - Industrial Applications of Isogeometric Analysis, Xiaodong Wei, Hugo Casquero, Emily Johnson, Clint Nicely, Attila Nagy, Ming-Chen Hsu, Jessica Zhang

1014 - Advances in Numerical Methods for Solution of PDEs, Alexander Idesman

1015 - Computational and Analytical Advances in Nonlocal Modeling, Patrick Diehl, Petronela Radu, Nojoud Nader, Mikil Foss

1016 - Peridynamic Theory and Multiscale Methods for Complex Material Behavior, Patrick Diehl, Yu Leng, Pablo Seleson, Robert Lipton

1017 - Immersed-Boundary Variational Methods: Theory, Data Structures, and Applications, Guglielmo Scovazzi, John Evans, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Ming-Chen Hsu, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Jinhui Yan

1100: emerging computing paradigms (Exascale, quantum, GPUs, hybrid)

1101 - Quantum Computing for Computational Mechanics, Osama Muhammad Raisuddin, Suvranu De, Çağlar Oskay, Krishnan Suresh

1102 - Quantum Scientific Computing, Yan Wang, Mayu Muramatsu, Kenjiro Terada, Marek Behr

1103 - Design and Implementation of Computational Methods on Emerging and Evolving Hardware, Longfei Gao Kris Rowe

1104 -  Development and Performance Portability of Computational Mechanics Codes Targeting Advanced and Emerging Architectures, Matthew Mosby,  Julia Plews

1200: geosystems and climate science

1201 - Data-Driven Model Reduction, Scientific Frontiers and Applications in Porous Media Flow Simulation, Eduardo Gildin, Alvaro Coutinho, Rami Younis

1202 - Geomechanics of the Cryosphere, Kara Peterson, Deborah Sulsky, Devin O'Connor, Svetoslav Nikolov, Adrian Turner

1203 - Advances in Numerical Modeling of Coupled Processes in Faulted and Fractured Geological Media, Matteo Frigo, Nicola Castelletto, Matteo Cusini

1204 - Modeling of Glaciers and Ice Sheets, Anjali Sandip, Irina Tezaur

1300: verification, validation and uncertainty quantification

1301 - Uncertainty Quantification and Scientific Machine Learning for Predictive Modeling and Decision-Making in Complex Systems, Danial Faghihi, Alireza Tabarraei, Kathryn Maupin, Peng Chen, Prashant Jha

1302 - Measures of Input Data Uncertainty and its Impact in Predictive and Scientific ML, Georgios Georgalis, Abani Patra

1303 - Physics-Based Data-Driven Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Johann Guilleminot, Michael Shields, Lori Graham-Brady, Kirubel Teferra, Ramin Bostanabad, Wei Chen, Alex Gorodetsky

1304 - UQ-TTA Student Paper Competition in Uncertainty Quantification, Johann Guilleminot, Michael Shields, Susanta Ghosh, Ruda Zhang

1305 - Making Decisions with Imperfect Models: Methods to Quantify Model Reliability and Address Model-Form Errors, Teresa Portone, Kathryn Maupin

1400: optimization

1401 - New Trends in Topology Optimization, Emilio Carlos Nelli Silva, Glaucio Paulino, Josephine Carstensen, Shelly Zhang, Shinji Nishiwaki

1402 - Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Optimal Experimental Design, Wilkins Aquino, Joe Bishop, Reese Jones, Sharlotte Kramer, Timothy Walsh, James Warner

1403 - Computational Design of Materials and Structures, Chenfeng Li

1404 - Emerging Topology and Shape Optimization Techniques in Computational Design of Materials and Structures, Ahmad Najafi, Kai James, Jamie Guest, Julián Norato, Graeme Kennedy, Jorge-Luis Barrera Cruz

1500: scientific visualization, extended reality, augmented reality

1501 - Imaging-Based Methods in Computational Medicine, Aishwarya Pawar, Jessica Zhang, Adrian Buganza Tepole, Johannes Weickenmeier, Maria Holland, C. Alberto Figueroa