Conference Programme

Technical Programme

The full programme for the conference can be found here. 

The Conference Proceedings, including the submitted extended abstracts is available here.  The proceedings will be uploaded to Durham University's Collections system and assigned a DOI after the conference.

Outline Programme

10th April 2024, School on Numerical Methods for Solid Mechanics

12:00 - 13:00 Registration and refreshments

13:00 - 13:10 UKACM School Welcome

13:10 - 14:10 Boundary Element Methods (Prof. Trevelyan)

14:20 - 15:20 Material Point Method (Prof. Augarde)

15:50 - 16:50 DG Finite Element Methods (Dr Bird)

17:00 - 18:30 Welcome reception

11th April 2024

08:30 - Registration

09:00 - 09:20 Welcome 

09:20 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture 1 (Prof. Zhuang)

10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Technical Session 1

13:30 - 14:10 Plenary Lecture 2 (Prof. Emerson)

14:20 - 15:50 Parallel Technical Session 2

16:10 - 17:10 Parallel Technical Session 3

17:10 - 18:00 UKACM Executive meeting

19:00 - 22:00 Conference banquet

12th April 2024

08:30 - Registration

09:00 - 09:40 Plenary Lecture 3 (Prof. Trevelyan)

09:50 - 11:05 Parallel Technical Session 4

11:30 - 12:30 Parallel Technical Session 5

13:15 - 14:00 UKACM Board meeting

14:00 - 14:40 Plenary Lecture 4 (Dr Hageman)

14:40 - 15:00 Prize giving and closing session 

Conference Presentations

It is intended that technical presentations will be 10 minutes duration, with 5 minutes for questions and changing speakers.  All speakers will be required to upload their presentations in advance in PPTX or PDF format.  Details will be provided closer to the event.