| Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| Time | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 8:00am | Room opens, coffee, etc. |
| 8:25am | Welcome, John A. Nairn |
| 8:30am | New Improvments in MPM (chair: Scott Bardenhagen ) |
| 8:30am | Rebecca Brannon | University of Utah | Deficiencies in overlapping support of CPDI particle basis functions without loss of partition of unity or convergence |
| 9:00am | John Nairn | Oregon State University | Improvements in MPM for simulating crack propagation: application to cutting |
| 9:30am | Brian Leavy | University of Utah, Army Research Lab | A convected particle tetrahedral domain interpolation (CPTI) technique for the material point method. |
| 10:00am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30am | MPM Accuracy (chair: Hongbing Lu ) |
| 10:30am | Martin Berzins | SCI Institute University of Utah | Improving accuracy in MPM using null spaces, linearity preservation and pseudo inverses |
| 11:00am | Ming Gong | University of New Mexico | Convergence and accuracy of the Material-Point Method |
| 11:30am | Jim Guilkey | Schlumberger | A study in being pretty vs. being correct |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Buffet, West Dining Hall, OSU |
| 1:15pm | MPM Application Part 1 (chair: Shane Shumacher ) |
| 1:15pm | Kevin Ruggirello | Sandia National Labs | Current status of MPM in CTH |
| 1:45pm | Duan Zhang | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Calculation of ideal gas shock waves using MPM, GIMP, CPDI and DDMP |
| 2:15pm | Joe Hooper | Naval Postgraduate School | MPM simulations of particle impact and bonding during cold-spray deposition |
| 2:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:00pm | MPM Application Part 1 (continued) (chair: Jim Guilkey ) |
| 3:00pm | Alexey Stomakhin | Walt Disney Animation Studioa | MPM in movies |
| 3:30pm | Yue Zhang | Oregon State University | Application of MPM on snow simulations |
| 4:00pm | Manoel Porfirio Cordao Neto | University of Brasilia | Pile driving simulations using material Point Method |
| 4:30pm | MPM Discussion Topics (discussion leader: Deborah Sulsky) |
| 6:30pm | Poster Session (Additionnal Posters are Welcome) and Conference Dinner, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU, 875 SW 26th St, Corvallis, OR 97333 |
| Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| Time | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| 8:00am | Room opens, coffee, etc. |
| 8:30am | MPM Application Part 2 (chair: John Nairn) |
| 8:30pm | Wije Wathugala | ACTA Inc., CA | Modeling brick pavers with MPM |
| 9:00pm | Sam Raymond | Monash University, CSIRO | The application of MPM to manufacturing processing: challenges and recent developments |
| 9:30am | Yamina Aimene | University of Guiana and French West Indies | Modeling forming process of woven fabrics using MPM |
| 10:00am | Coffee Break |
| 10:15am | MPM Application Part 2 (continued) (chair: Yamina Aimene) |
| 10:15am | Deborah Sulsky | University of New Mexico | Blast-induced rock fracture near a tunnel |
| 10:45am | Chad Hammerquist | Oregon State University | MPM Simulations of Nanoindentation |
| 11:15am | MPM Discussion Topics (discussion leader: Rebecca Brannon) |
| 12:15pm | Adjourn |