Congress Minisymposia
Below is a current list of Congress Minisymposia.
100: Honorary Minisymposia
101 - Mini-Symposium in Honor of Prof. Philippe Geubelle's 60th Birthday: Advanced Computational Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms in Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Soheil Soghrati, Rajeev Jaiman, Alejandro Aragón, Karel Matouš, Ahmad Najafi
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
800: nanoscale phenomena
801 - Recent Trends in Data-Driven and Computational Modeling of Materials Across Scales: From First Principles Calculations to Mesoscale Physics, Amartya Banerjee, Susanta Ghosh, Vikram Gavini
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