Scheduled presentations:

• Keynote Slow flow and creep in soft deformable hydrogel particle packings
  Z. Farmani (University of Amsterdam), C. Shakya (University of Amsterdam), J. Wang (Otto von Guericke University), R. Stannarius (Otto von Guericke University), T. Mullin (Oxford University), *J. Dijksman (University of Amsterdam)
• Micro-macro methods: states and transitions from particles to continuum
  S. Luding (University of Twente), D. Vescovi (Politecnico di Milano), *V. Magnanimo
• Phase transition in granular systems
  *D. Vescovi (Politecnico di Milano)
• Precursors of inertial transitions in granular materials: search for a consistent definition for the mesoscopic second-order work
  *A. Clerc (INSA Lyon, LaMCoS, Villeurbanne), A. Wautier (INRAE, RECOVER, Aix-en-Provence), S. Bonelli (INRAE, RECOVER, Aix-en-Provence), F. Nicot (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, ISTerre)
• Towards a Hierarchical Continuum-Discrete Multiscale Methodology for the Thermomechanical Simulation of Dense Granular Media
  *R. Rangel (CIMNE), A. Franci (CIMNE), J. Gimenez (CIMNE), E. Oñate (CIMNE)