MONDAY JUNE 13, 2005

Opening Ceremonies and Plenary Session 8:30am - 10:00am
Welcome Address: Calvin W. Rice Award Lecture
"Vortex-Induced Vibration of Ocean Structures"
by Professor Peter W. Bearman, FREng, Imperial College, London, UK

Opening Ceremonies and Plenary Session (Continued) 10:30am - 12:30am
"Safety Can no Longer be Implied…..Using Technology to Protect the Safety Frontier"
by Christopher J. Wiernicki, President ABS Europe Ltd of the American Bureau of Shipping

"Perspectives for the Future of European Maritime Research"
by Mario Dogliani, Head of Research and Development Department of RINA and Chairman of the WATERBORNE Technology Platform, Italy

"The Present State-of-art and Future of Offshore Technology"
by Subrata Chakrabarti, NAE, President of Offshore Structure Analysis, Inc., USA

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2005

Plenary Session 8:00am - 9:00am
"Collapse, Buckle Propagation and Buckle Arrestor in Offshore Pipelines"
by Prof. Stelios Kyriakides, University of Texas at Austin, USA