CONFERENCES FOUNDED
1.
The Biot Conference on
Poromechanics,Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, founded in 1998,
with J.-F. Thimus, E. Detournay, Y. Abousleiman, and O. Coussy. (2nd
Conference, Grenoble, France, 2002; 3rd Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, USA,
2005; 4th Conference, Columbia University, New York, USA, 2009; 5th
Conference, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, 2013; 6th Conference,
ParisTech, Paris, France, 2017.)
- The International
Conference and Workshop on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal
Aquifers-Monitoring, Modeling, and Management, Essaouira, Morocco,
founded in 2001, with D. Ouazar, J. Bear, L. Konikow, C.I. Voss, and
G. Barrocu. (2nd Conference, Merida, Mexico, 2003; 3rd Conference,
Cagliari, Italy, 2006; 4th Conference, Florida, USA, 2008.)
CONFERENCES CHAIRED
- Conference Chair, The Fifth International Conference on
Boundary Element Technology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware,
July 10-12, 1990, with C.A. Brebbia and S. Grilli.
- Conference Chair, The
Third International Conference on Computer Methods and Water
Resources, Beirut, Lebanon, September 25-28, 1995, with Y.
Abousleiman, C.A. Brebbia, and D. Ouazar.
- Conference Co-Chair,
The Fourth International Conference on Computer Methods and Water
Resources, Byblos, Lebanon, June 16-18, 1997, with Y. Abousleiman and
C.A. Brebbia (Conference Chairs), R. Ghanem and D. Ouazar (Co-Chairs).
- Conference Chair, The
First International Conference on Water Resources Management,
Halkidiki, Greece, September 24-26, 2001, with C.A. Brebbia, P.
Anagnostopoulos, and K. Katsifarakis.
- Conference Co-Chair,
The Third Biot Conference on Poromechanics, May 24-27, 2005, University
of Oklahoma, with Y. Abousleiman (Conference Chair) and F. Ulm
(Co-Chair).
- Conference Technical
Co-Chair, Mid-South Area Engineering and Sciences Conference, May
17-18, 2007, Oxford, Mississippi, with K.-F. Lee (Conference Chair)
and A. Elsherbeni (Technical Co-Chair).
- Conference Chair, Joint
International Workshop on Trefftz Method VI and Method of Fundamental
Solutions II, March 15–18, 2011, National Sun Yat-sen University,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with T.T. Lu, Z.C. Li, C.S. Chen, D.L Young, and
J.T. Chen.
- Conference Chair, 35th
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, June 11–13, 2013, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
- Conference Chair, 36th
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, October 22–24, 2013, Dalian, China, with Carlos Brebbia and
Xiaowei Gao.
- Conference Chair,
Mid-South Annual Engineering and Science Conference, Oxford,
Mississippi, October 28–29, 2013.
- Conference Chair, 37th
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, September 8–10, 2014, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
- Conference Chair, 38th
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, September 21-23, 2015, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
- Conference Chair, 39th
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, September 20-22, 2016, Sienna, Italy, with Carlos Brebbia.
- Conference Chair, 40th
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, September 12-14, 2017, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
- Conference Chair, 41st
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, September 11-13, 2018, New Forest, UK, with Stavros
Syngellakis.
- Conference Chair, 42nd
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, July 2-4, 2019, Coimbra, Portugal, with Antonio Tadeu.
- Conference Chair, 43nd
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, May 18-20, 2020, Daytona Beach, Florida, with Eduardo Divo
and Alain Kassab.
KEYNOTE/PLENARY LECTURES
- "Poroelasticity
and BEM," Keynote Lecture, 14th International Conference on
Boundary Element Technology, Orlando, Florida, March 12-14, 2001.
- "Recent advances
in meshless methods," Keynote Lecture, 22nd Ibero Latin-American
Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Campinas, Brazil,
November 7-9, 2001.
- "Recent advances
in meshless methods and radial basis functions," Keynote Lecture,
15th International Conference on Boundary Element Technology, Detroit,
May 19-21., 2003.
- "Pumping
optimization in coastal aquifers," Keynote Lecture, 18th Salt
Water Intrusion Meeting, Cartagena, Spain, May 31-June 3, 2004.
- "Modeling and
management of coastal aquifers," Magistral Lecture, Quinto
Congreso Nacional de Aguas Subterráneas, Hermosillo, Sonora, México,
October 26-28, 2005.
- "Collocation
(meshless) method for well- and ill-posed problems in partial
differential equations," Plenary Lecture, 1st Workshop on Method of
Fundamental Solutions, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, June 11-13, 2007.
- "Radial basis
function collocation method," Semi-Plenary Lecture ,International
Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Beijing, China, July 30-August
1, 2007.
- "Meshless
collocation method for high accuracy computation," Shi Yen-Ping
Lecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, December
28, 2007.
- "Stability and
error estimates of Trefftz method and method of fundamental
solutions," Keynote Lecture, 5th Workshop on Trefftz Methods, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, March 31-April 2, 2008.
- "Meshless
collocation method for high accuracy computation," Plenary
Lecture, 9th International Conference on Numerical Analysis and
Optimization, Faculty of Science and Technology-Mohammedia, Morocco,
December 17-19, 2008.
- “Intrinsic
material constants of poroelasticity,” 8th Maurice A. Biot Lecture,
Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia
University, October 18, 2011.
- “Scattered point
collocation method for solution of PDE—An overview,” Plenary Lecture,
10th (Chinese) National Conference on Computational Methods in
Engineering and Global Chinese Workshop on Computational Methods in
Engineering, Changsha, China, May 25–28, 2012.
- “Trend of BEM and other
mesh reduction methods,” Keynote Lecture, 35th International
Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, New
Forest, UK, June 11–13, 2013.
- “Some thoughts on mesh
reduction and collocation method,” Keynote Lecture, 36th International
Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods,
Dalian, China, October 22–24, 2013.
- “Poroelasticity—An
overview,” Yu-Tai Lecture (宇泰講座), National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung,
Taiwan, January 6, 2014.
- “Poroelasticity—An
overview,” Keynote Lecture, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute
International Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,
January 7-9, 2015.
- “From Green’s function
to BEM, and to meshless method—A personal reminiscence,” Keynote and
Award Acceptance Speech, 39th International Conference on Boundary
Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, Sienna, Italy, September
20-22, 2016.
- “Some thoughts and
guidelines on the use of radial basis function collocation”, Plenary
Talk, Colloquium on Boundary Element and Mesh Reduction Method,”
Guilin, China, July 29-30, 2017.
- “Numerical solution of
partial differential equation: strong vs. weak formulation, global vs.
local interpolation, and mesh vs. meshless”, Keynote, 42nd
International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction
Methods, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2-4, 2019.
- “Linear (incremental)
constitutive equation for unsaturated porous medium”, Keynote,
International Symposium on Multi-Physics Study of Hydro-Dynamically
Induced Landslides: Mechanism, Modeling, Control and Prevention,
Lille, France, July 10-11, 2019.
- “From singular and
nonsingular boundary element method to singular and nonsingular method
of fundamental solutions”, Keynote, 5th International Workshop on
Meshless Methods, Qingdao, China, August 23-25, 2019.
- “Numerical solution of
PDE: Mesh vs. meshless, strong vs. weak formulation, and global vs.
local interpolation”, Keynote, 6th Asia-Pacific International
Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering, Dalian, China,
September 27-30, 2019.
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