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86th Annual Meeting (Oct 2014)

Technical Program & Organizers


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The Society of Rheology 86th Annual Meeting will have eleven thematic sessions and a poster session, which includes the annual student/post-doc poster competition. The plenary lectures will be given by Susan Muller (University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Savvas Hatzikiriakos (University of British Columbia, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering) and the 2014 Bingham Medalist, Norman J. Wagner (University of Delaware, Department of Chemical and Biomelecular Engineering). A presentation will also be given by the 2014 Metzner awardee, Randy H. Ewoldt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Engineering).

Authors should submit an abstract by May 9, 2014 through the World Wide Web using the SoR abstract submission site. The planned sessions and the corresponding chairs are given below.
  

Suspensions and Colloids

    Jacinta Conrad
University of Houston
jcconrad@Central.uh.edu
Saeid Savarmand
Sun Chemical
saeid.savarmand@sunchemical.com

Blends, Composites and Multiphase Systems

Arezoo Adekani
University of Notre Dame
aardekan@nd.edu
Florian Nettesheim
DuPont
Florian.Nettesheim@dupont.com

Polymer Solutions and Melts

Hiroshi Watanabe
Kyoto University
hiroshi@scl.kyotou.ac.jp
Deepak Doraiswamy
SABIC
deepak.doraiswamy@gmail.com

Emulsions, Foams and Interfacial Rheology

Jan Vermant
KU Leuven
jan.vermant@cit.kuleuven.be
Sascha Hilgenfeldt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
sascha@illinois.edu

Self-assembly and Flow-induced Systems/Gels

Eric Furst
University of Delaware
furst@udel.edu
Anne Grillet
Sandia National Laboratories
amgrill@sandia.gov

Biomaterials and Biological Systems

Randy Ewoldt
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
ewoldt@illinois.edu
Kelly Schultz
Lehigh University
schultz@lehigh.edu
Solids and Glasses
  Tom Engels
DSM
tom.engels@dsm.com
Jim Caruthers
Purdue University
caruther@purdue.edu
Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and Stability
  Bamin Khomani
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
bkhomami@utk.edu
Sarah Hormozi
Ohio University
hormozi@ohio.edu
Computational Rheology
  Mike Graham
University of Wisconsin
graham@engr.wisc.edu
Jagadeeshan Ravi Prakash
Monash University
ravi.jagadeeshan@monash.edu
Confined and Coupled Systems
  Patrick Anderson
Eindhoven University of Technology
p.d.anderson@tue.nl
Cari Dutcher
University of Minnesota
cdutcher@umn.edu
Food Rheology
  Rakesh Gupta
West Virginia University
rakesh.gupta@mail.wvu.edu
Mahesh Padmanabhan
Mondelez International
mahesh.padmanabhan@mdlz.com

Poster Session

Prospective presenters must use the Web-based submission procedure to submit abstracts by August 8, 2014. The organizers are:
John Dorgan
Colorado School of Mines
 jdorgan@mines.edu
      Seher Ozkan
Ashland Inc.
sozkan@ashland.com
      Matthew D. Reichert
The Dow Chemical Company
MDReichert@dow.com
 
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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Please e-mail suggestions and comments to albertco@umche.maine.edu.
Updated 23 August 2014