| Tuesday 21.04.2026 |
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| 16:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Welcome Apero |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Dinner |
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| Wednesday 22.04.2026 |
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| 07:15 - 08:10 | Breakfast |
| 08:15 - 08:25 | Conference room reorganization |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Welcoming speech |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening speech |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Keynote 1 — Patrick Ballard — Transition from Continuous to Jumping Solutions in Quasi-static Elastic Contact Problems with Coulomb Friction: the Prediction of the Onset of Brake Squeal |
| 09:50 - 10:50 | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 12:50 | |
| 13:05 - 14:25 | Lunch |
| 14:25 - 14:35 | Conference room reorganization |
| 14:35 - 15:25 | Keynote 2 — Daniele Panozzo - Geometric Potential and Geometric Predicates for Unconditionally Robust Elastodynamics Simulation |
| 15:25 - 16:25 | |
| 16:25 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 - 18:05 | |
| 18:05 - 18:25 | Conference room reorganization |
| 18:25 - 21:45 | Poster session (max 13 posters) Apero + Dinner |
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| Thursday 23.04.2026 |
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| 07:15 - 08:10 | Breakfast |
| 08:15 - 08:25 | Conference room reorganization |
| 08:30 - 09:20 | Keynote 3 — Peter Wriggers - Recent Advances in Third Medium Contact |
| 09:20 - 10:40 | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 12:50 | |
| 13:05 - 14:25 | Lunch |
| 14:25 - 14:35 | Conference room reorganization |
| 14:35 - 15:25 | Keynote 4 — Mike Puso - Where is contact now? |
| 15:25 - 16:25 | |
| 16:25 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | |
| 18:30 - 23:00 | Walk to Parco Ciani and Social dinner: Ristorante Ciani Lugano |
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| Friday 24.04.2026 |
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| 07:15 - 08:10 | Breakfast |
| 08:15 - 08:25 | Conference room reorganization |
| 08:30 - 09:20 | Keynote 5 — Anka Chen - Toward Real-Time, Stable, and Physically Accurate Simulation: Vertex Block Descent and Beyond |
| 09:20 - 10:40 | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 12:50 | |
| 13:05 - 14:25 | Lunch |
| 14:25 - 14:35 | Conference room reorganization |
| 14:35 - 15:25 | Keynote 6 — Jean-François Molinari - Space under stress |
| 15:25 - 17:05 | |
| 17:05 - 17:15 | Closing remarks |