Session One - Chair: Professor Amit Varma
| 2:00 p.m. | Prof. Ayhan Irfanoglu, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, "Numerical Simulation vs. Engineering Judgment in Studying the Collapse of the World Trade Center Tower-1" |
| 2:30 p.m. | Prof. R. Edwin Garcia, Assistant Professor, School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, "Microstructure Design of Portable Power Sources through Object Oriented Finite Elements" |
| 3:00 p.m. | Prof. Ganesh Subbarayan, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, "Hierarchical Compositions for CAD-CAE Integration in Evolving Boundary Problems" |
Discussion/Break
Session Two - Chair: Professor Rodrigo Salgado
| 4:00 p.m. | Dr. David M. Potts, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Imperial College London, "Some of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Using Advanced Numerical Analysis in Engineering Practice" |
| 4:30 p.m. | Prof. Youssef Hashash, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Practical nonlinear seismic site response analysis via DEEPSOIL" |
| 5:00 p.m. | Prof. Jose Andrade, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, "Multiscale Analysis in Geomaterials: Challenges and Opportunities" |
Discussion/Break
