List of Recent Presentations

• Generalized finite element approaches for analysis of localized non-linear thermo-mechanical effects, Plenary Lecture at Eighth International Workshop on Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Bonn, Germany, Sept. 7-9, 2015. Movies from presentation are available at the YouTube channel from Prof. Duarte’s research group.
• A New Generalized Finite Element Method for Two-Scale Simulations of Propagating Cohesive Fractures in 3-D. Keynote Lecture at IV International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Cachan, France June 3-5, 2015.
• Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method for the Simulation of 3-D Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Interactions, Distinguished Lecture, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, April 3, 2015.
• Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method and Applications in 3-D Fracture Propagation and Coalescence, opening plenary lecture at the  XXXIV Ibero-Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE 2014), Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, Nov. 23-26, 2014.
• What Does It Take for a New Computational Method to Be Adopted by Engineers? Invited Lecture at Workshop for Meshfree Methods for Large-Scale Computational Science and Engineering, Tampa, FL, October 27-28, 2014.
• Bridging Singularities and Nonlinearities Across Scales, Invited Lecture, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, Oct. 15 , 2014.
• Improved Conditioning and Accuracy of GFEM/XFEM for Three-Dimensional Fracture Mechanics, Keynote Lecture at 51th Annual Technical Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, Purdue University, Oct. 1-3, 2014.
• Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method for the Simulation of 3-D Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Interactions Keynote lecture, Workshop on Computational Geomechanics, University of Pittsburgh, May 22-23, 2014.
• Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method and Applications in 3-D Fracture Propagation and Coalescence, Invited Lecture, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, April 29, 2014.
• Simulation of Non-Planar Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Fracture Propagation
  12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Raleigh, NC, 2013.
• The Generalized Finite Element Method as a Framework for Multiscale Structural Analysis
  Workshop on Analysis and Applications of the Generalized FEM, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, 2012.
• Bridging Scales with a Generalized Finite Element Method
  In 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, MN, 2011.
• Bridging Scales with a Generalized FEM
  ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Extended Finite Element Methods – XFEM 2011 Cardiff, United Kingdom, 2011.
• Analysis of Three-Dimensional Propagating Cracks: A Two-Scale Approach Using Coarse Finite Element Meshes
  IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics — ECCM 2010, Paris, France, 2010.
• Multi-Scale Analysis of Sharp Transient Thermal Gradients Using Coarse Generalized Finite Element Meshes
  Tenth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, OH, 2009.