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85th Annual Meeting (Oct 2013)

Technical Program & Organizers


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The Society of Rheology 85th Annual Meeting will have ten thematic sessions and a poster session, which includes the annual student/post-doc poster competition. The plenary lectures will be given by Theo G.M. van de Ven (McGill University, Department of Chemistry), Pierre Carreau (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Department of Chemical Engineering) and the 2013 Bingham Medalist, Gareth H. McKinley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering). A presentation will also be given by the 2013 Metzner awardee, Patrick T. Underhill (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering).

Authors should submit an abstract by May 17, 2013 through the World Wide Web using the SoR abstract submission site. The planned sessions and the corresponding chairs are given below.
  

Suspensions and Colloids

    Nina Shapley
Rutgers University
nshapley@rci.rutgers.edu
Victor Breedveld
Georgia Tech
victor.breedveld@chbe.gatech.edu

Polymer Solutions

David F. James
University of Toronto
david.james@utoronto.ca
Hagar Zohar
Dow Chemical
hzohar@dow.com

Polymer Melts and Blends

Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos
University of British Columbia
savvas.hatzi@ubc.ca
Michael Mackay
University of Delaware
mem@udel.edu

Non-Newtonian Flows

Ian A. Frigaard
University of British Columbia
frigaard@math.ubc.ca
Vivek Sharma
University of Illinois, Chicago
viveks@uic.edu

Interfacial Phenomena

Suzanne Giasson
Université de Montréal
suzanne.giasson@umontreal.ca
Lynn M. Walker
Carnegie-Mellon University
lwalker@andrew.cmu.edu

Rheology at the Microscopic Scale

John R. de Bruyn
University of Western Ontario
debruyn@uwo.ca
Gordon Christopher
Texas Tech University
gordon.christopher@ttu.edu
Gels and Self-assembled Systems
  Jai Pathak
MedImmune LLC
pathakj@medimmune.com
Matthew E. Helgeson
University of California, Santa Barbara
helgeson@engineering.ucsb.edu
Solids, Glasses and Composites
  Marianna Kontopoulou
Queen’s University
marianna.kontopoulou@chee.queensu.ca
Eliot Fried
McGill University
eliot.fried@mcgill.ca
Experimental Methods
  Nicole Demarquette
École de Technologie Supérieure
NicoleR.Demarquette@etsmtl.ca
David C. Venerus
Illinois Institute of Technology
venerus@iit.edu
Rheology and Processing of Bio-based Materials
  Michel Huneault
Université de Sherbrooke
Michel.Huneault@USherbrooke.ca
James J. Feng
University of British Columbia
jfeng@chbe.ubc.ca

Poster Session

Prospective presenters must use the Web-based submission procedure to submit abstracts by August 16, 2013. The organizers are:
Christopher C. White
NIST
christopher.white@nist.gov
      Patrick T. Underhill
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
underp3@rpi.edu
 
Poster presenters will have an area of 42 inches wide by 45 inches tall to attach each poster to; push pins will be provided.

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