Extreme Event Modeling Minisymposia at EMI 2017

I have been invited to help co-organize a minisymposia at the Engineering Mechanics Institute conference (EMI 2017) in San Diego next year June 4th - June 7th.  My co-organizers are Jason Roth of ERDC and J.S. Chen of UC San Diego. 

Abstracts can be submitted here starting October 1, 2016 until January 1, 2017.

​The minisymposia will solicit all subjects related to computational methods and related experimental V&V for the study of extreme events, which include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
* Method and algorithm development for the simulation of problems involving harsh dynamic loading, high strain-rate, large material deformation, fracture and failure, or material breakup
* Fluid-structure interaction in disaster dynamics and material/structure failure
* Multiscale approaches to extreme material failure and disaster simulation
* Constitutive modeling and characterization of materials under high strain rate
* Constitutive modeling and characterization of disaster debris fields
* Simulation of multi-phase flow fields resulting from disaster events
* Applications of computational methods to simulation of natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides
* Applications of computational methods to simulation of manmade disasters like blast and penetration
* Computational investigations on infrastructure resiliency to include predictions of residual strength and prevention of progressive collapse
* Computational and experimental investigations on high-rate damage and failure mechanisms in semi-brittle geomaterials like concrete
* Computational and experimental investigations on soil liquefaction, foundation failure and debris flow
* Verification and validation of disaster simulation models
* Numerical algorithm implementation and simulation software development
* Large scale parallel computation and scalable algorithms