Past conferences

Past conferences

ICSOS2023 24-28 September 2023, Yantai, China
This year there were 51 presentations from many different parts of the world including China, South Korea, Malaysia, Croatia, India, and the UK. The presentations covered a wide range of topics related to ships and offshore structures and allowed for very interesting cross-discipline discussions. Two parallel sessions were arranged due to the large number of presentations. In addition to on-site sessions, a virtual session including six presentations was also arranged due to traveling issues of some participants. We would like to thank all participants and our keynote speakers making this year’s conference a successful and fruitful event.

The final program of the ICSOS2023 conference can be found here.
ICSOS2021 6 – 8 September 2021, Hamburg, Germany (online only)
This year there were 37 presentations from many different parts of the world including Canada, Germany, South Korea, Norway, Japan, Portugal, Croatia, Greece, Sweden, France, Finnland, Egypt, Malaysia and the UK. The presentations covered a wide range of topics related to ships and offshore structures and allowed for very interesting cross-discipline discussions due to the single-track presentation scheme. Because of COVID-10, the format was virtual with live presentations and discussions. We would like to thank all participants and our keynote speakers making this years conference a successful and fruitful event.

The final program of the ICSOS2020 conference can be found here.
ICSOS2020 1 – 3 September 2020, Glasgow, UK
This year there were 52 presentations from many different parts of the world including Germany, South Korea, China, France, Croatia, Norway, Turkey, Sweden, Russia, Netherlands, Estonia, Greece and UK who joined the 4-day conference which was organized by University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Presentations focused on a wide variety of topics related to ships and offshore structures including ship strength, ship motion, ice mechanics, subsea, collision & grounding of ships, fluid structure interactions, computational fluid dynamics, and offshore renewable energy. Approximately 150 people registered for the conference. We hosted some of the world’s leading researchers in the area of ships and offshore structures who delivered keynote lectures and technical presentations. The conference was also a great opportunity for young researchers to meet with these world-leading researchers and discuss their research. This year, ICSOS conference also hosted “TrAM Workshop” with a particular focus on design and construction of electric vessels.  Because of the travel limitations due to Covid-19 pandemic, the format of the conference was in virtual format for the first time. We are very pleased to receive positive feedback from the participants about the virtual format of the conference. We would like to thank the local organizing committee for their tremendous support for the success of the conference including Profs. Dracos Vassalos, Evangelos Boulougouris, Gerasimos Theotokatos, Selda Oterkus and Athanasios Kolios at University of Strathclyde.

The final program of the ICSOS2020 conference can be found here.
The presentations in video format of the keynote presentations and individual papers can be found here.
ICSOS2019 Melbourne, Florida, USA (4. - 8. November, 2019)
Below is the group photo of participants who attended the 2019 International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures (ICSOS 2018) onboard Carnival Liberty cruising to the Bahamas and back from Florida.
In total 32 registered attendees participated in the conference onboard the cruise ship enjoying the high quality presentations and scientific discussions.

The final program of the ICSOS2019 conference can be found here.
ICSOS2018 Gothenburg, Sweden (17. - 19. September, 2018)
Below is the group photo of participants who attended the 2018 International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures (ICSOS 2018) in Gothenburg, Sweden.
In total 67 registered attendees participated in the conference enjoying the high quality presentations and scientific discussions. The participants listened to 3 keynote lectures that addressed the topic “sustainability”, followed by presentations of 47 full-length papers.

Access to the final program of the ICSOS2018 conference can be found here.
Access to the list of registered participants to the ICSOS2018 conference can be found here.
The ICSOS2018 special issue of the Ships and Offshore Structures journal can be found here.
ICSOS2017 Shenzhen, China (11. - 13. September, 2017)
Below is the group photo of participants who attended the 2017 International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures (ICSOS 2017) in Shenzhen, China.
In total 55 attendees participated in the conference enjoying the high quality presentations and scientific discussions.
Access to the  final program of the ICSOS2017 conference can be found here.
The ICSOS2017 special issue of the Ships and Offshore Structures journal can be found here.
ICSOS2016 Hamburg, Germany (31.08 - 2.09.2016)
Below is the group photo of participants who attended the 2016 International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures (ICSOS 2016) in Hamburg, Germany.
In total 75 attendees participated in the conference enjoying the high quality presentations and scientific discussions.
The table of contents of the ICSOS2016 proceedings is available here.
The ICSOS2016 special issue of the Ships and Offshore Structures journal can be found here.

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