Scheduled presentations:

• Keynote Slow flow and creep in soft deformable hydrogel particle packings
  Z. Farmani, C. Shakya, J. Wang, R. Stannarius, T. Mullin, J. Dijksman*
• Micro-macro methods: states and transitions from particles to continuum
  S. Luding, D. Vescovi, V. Magnanimo*
• Phase transition in granular systems
  D. Vescovi*
• Precursors of inertial transitions in granular materials: search for a consistent definition for the mesoscopic second-order work
  A. Clerc*, A. Wautier, S. Bonelli, F. Nicot
• Towards a Hierarchical Continuum-Discrete Multiscale Methodology for the Thermomechanical Simulation of Dense Granular Media
  R. Rangel*, A. Franci, J. Gimenez, E. Oñate