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81st Annual Meeting (Oct 2009)

Technical Program & Organizers


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The Society of Rheology 81st Annual Meeting will have eleven thematic sessions and a poster session, which includes the annual student paper competition. In addition to the lecture of the 2009 Bingham medalist Gregory B. McKenna (Texas Tech University, Department of Chemical Engineering), two plenary lectures will be presented by Ajay K. Sood (Indian Institute of Science, Department of Physics) and Norman J. Wagner (University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering).

Authors should submit an abstract by May 15, 2009 through the World Wide Web using the SoR abstract submission site The planned sessions and the corresponding chairs are given below.
  

Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and Stability

    Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
(314) 935-4988; (314) 935-7211 (fax)
suresh@wustl.edu
Yong Joo
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Eng.
Cornell University
265 Weill Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-8591; (607) 255-9166 (fax)
ylj2@cornell.edu

Suspensions and Colloids

Jason Butler
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6005
(352) 392-2591; (352) 392-9513 (fax)
butler@che.ufl.edu
Mike Solomon
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
3142 H. H. Dow Bldg., 2300 Hayward St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
(734) 764-3119; (734) 763-0459 (fax)
mjsolo@umich.edu

Emulsions, Blends and Multiphase Systems

Michael Loewenberg
Department of Chemical Engineering
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-4334, (203) 432-4387 (fax)
michael.loewenberg@yale.edu
Rekha Rao
Sandia National Labs
Albuquerque, NM 87185
(505) 844-5591
rrrao@sandia.gov

Biorheology and Rheology in Biological Systems

Prosenjit Bagchi
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers University
98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
(732) 445-3656; (732) 445-3124 (fax)
pbagchi@jove.rutgers.edu
Michael R. King
Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
205 Weill Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
(607) 255-9803; (607) 255-7330 (fax)
mike.king@cornell.edu

Microrheometry and Microfluidics

Daniel Blair
Department of Physics
Georgetown University
(202) 687-5985
blair@physics.georgetown.edu
Amy Shen
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2180
(206) 221-0372; (206) 685-8047 (fax)
amyshen@u.washington.edu

Polymer Solutions and Melts

Ralph Colby
Dept. of Materials Science and Eng.
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-3457; (814) 865-2917 (fax)
rhc@plmsc.psu.edu
Jules J. Magda
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 581-7536
jj.magda@m.cc.utah.edu
  Lynden Archer
Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 254-8825; (607) 255-9166 (fax)
laa25@cornell.edu
 
Self-Assembled Systems and Interfacial Rheology
  Sascha Hilgenfeldt
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-7252
sascha@illinois.edu
Lynn Walker
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213
(412) 268-3020; (412) 268-7139 (fax)
lwalker@andrew.cmu.edu
Gels, Glasses, and Jammed Systems
  Corey O’Hern
Mechanical Engineering and Physics
Yale University
(203) 432-4258; (203) 432-7654 (fax)
New Haven, CT 06520-8286
corey.ohern@yale.edu
Subramanian Ramakrishnan
Department of Chem. and Biomed. Eng.
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Tallahassee, FL 32310
(850) 410-6159; (850) 410-6150 (fax)
rama@eng.fsu.edu
Molecular Modeling and Simulation in Rheology
  Rajesh Khare
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409
(806) 742-0449; (806) 742-3552 (FAX)
rajesh.khare@ttu.edu
Nicos Martys
Materials and Structures Division
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
(301) 975-5915
nicos.martys@nist.gov
Viscoplasticity and Soft Solids
  John De Bruyn
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Western Ontario
London ON; Canada N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111; (519) 661-2033 fax
debruyn@uwo.ca
Ian Frigaard
Applied Math & Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
(604) 822-3043; (604) 822-6074 (fax)
frigaard@math.ubc.ca
Industrial and Complex Systems Rheology
  Matt Liberatore
Department of Chemical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
303-273-3531; 303-273-3730 (fax)
mliberat@mines.edu
Jim Oberhauser
Manager, Polymer R&D
Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions
Abbott Vascular
3635 Peterson Way, MS115
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 845-0835; (408) 845-0849 (fax)
James.Oberhauser@av.abbott.com

Poster Session

Prospective presenters must use the Web-based submission procedure to submit abstracts by August 14, 2009. The organizers are:
Chinedum Osuji
Department of Chemical Engineering
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-4357; (203) 432-4387 (fax)
chinedum.osuji@yale.edu
      Danilo Pozzo
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1750
(206) 685-8536; (206) 685-3451 (fax)
e-mail: dpozzo@u.washington.edu

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