Speaker: 

		Professor David S. Weaver
		Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
	Title:	FIV Practical Experiences & Lessons Learned
	Short Biography:	Professor Weaver has been conducting fundamental and applied research in the broad field of flow-induced vibrations (FIV) and flow excited acoustics (FEA) for over 40 years and is well known internationally for his important contributions to this field. Much of his work has been related to FIV and FEA in nuclear and fossil heat exchangers, with research contracts and consulting from numerous companies in Japan, Europe, USA and Canada. He has served 3 terms as Chair of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University and 2 years as Chair of the NSERC MEGSC. He has been a constant contributor to the PVP forum over the last 30 years and he chaired the PVP-FSI committee.  He is currently Professor Emeritus at McMaster University.

Speaker:

		Professor Samir Ziada
		Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
	Title:	Flow-Sound Interaction Mechanisms during the Resonance of Trapped Diametral Modes in Shallow Cavities
	Short Biography:	Dr. Samir Ziada is a Professor at McMaster University and former Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had 17 years of industrial experience in the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics of Sulzer Innotec Ltd in Switzerland, before joining McMaster University in Canada in 1998. He has received several awards, including the Premier Research Excellence Award of Ontario, the McMaster Student Union Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the McMaster President Award for Excellence of Graduate Supervision. He is currently a regular consultant to several industrial institutions, including the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, among others. Dr. Ziada is a Fellow of the ASME and the CSME and has been the Chair of the ASME Technical Committee on Fluid-Structure-Interaction.