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.)

  1. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. Conference Chair, 35th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, June 11–13, 2013, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
  9. 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.
  10. Conference Chair, Mid-South Annual Engineering and Science Conference, Oxford, Mississippi, October 28–29, 2013.
  11. Conference Chair, 37th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, September 8–10, 2014, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
  12. Conference Chair, 38th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, September 21-23, 2015, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
  13. Conference Chair, 39th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, September 20-22, 2016, Sienna, Italy, with Carlos Brebbia.
  14. Conference Chair, 40th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, September 12-14, 2017, New Forest, UK, with Carlos Brebbia.
  15. Conference Chair, 41st International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, September 11-13, 2018, New Forest, UK, with Stavros Syngellakis.
  16. Conference Chair, 42nd International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods, July 2-4, 2019, Coimbra, Portugal, with Antonio Tadeu.
  17. 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

  1. "Poroelasticity and BEM," Keynote Lecture, 14th International Conference on Boundary Element Technology, Orlando, Florida, March 12-14, 2001.
  2. "Recent advances in meshless methods," Keynote Lecture, 22nd Ibero Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Campinas, Brazil, November 7-9, 2001.
  3. "Recent advances in meshless methods and radial basis functions," Keynote Lecture, 15th International Conference on Boundary Element Technology, Detroit, May 19-21., 2003.
  4. "Pumping optimization in coastal aquifers," Keynote Lecture, 18th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting, Cartagena, Spain, May 31-June 3, 2004.
  5. "Modeling and management of coastal aquifers," Magistral Lecture, Quinto Congreso Nacional de Aguas Subterráneas, Hermosillo, Sonora, México, October 26-28, 2005.
  6. "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.
  7. "Radial basis function collocation method," Semi-Plenary Lecture ,International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Beijing, China, July 30-August 1, 2007.
  8. "Meshless collocation method for high accuracy computation," Shi Yen-Ping Lecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, December 28, 2007.
  9. "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.
  10. "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.
  11. “Intrinsic material constants of poroelasticity,” 8th Maurice A. Biot Lecture, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, October 18, 2011.
  12. “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.
  13. “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.
  14. “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.
  15. “Poroelasticity—An overview,” Yu-Tai Lecture (宇泰講座), National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, January 6, 2014.
  16. “Poroelasticity—An overview,” Keynote Lecture, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, January 7-9, 2015.
  17. “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.
  18. “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.
  19. “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.
  20. “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.
  21. “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.
  22. “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.