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87th Annual Meeting (Oct 2015)

Technical Program & Organizers


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The Society of Rheology 87th 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 Mark Robbins (John Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy), Jan Vermant (ETH Zürich, Department of Materials) and the 2015 Bingham Medalist, Hiroshi Watanabe (Kyoto University, Institute for Chemical Research). A presentation will also be given by the 2015 Metzner awardee, Anson Ma (University of Connecticut, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Institute of Materials Science).

Authors should submit an abstract by May 15, 2015 through the World Wide Web using the SoR abstract submission site. The planned sessions and the corresponding chairs are given below.
  

Suspensions and Colloids

    Ali Mohraz
University of California-Irvine
mohraz@uci.edu
Nina Shapley
Rutgers University
nshapley@rci.rutgers.edu

Solids, Glasses, and Composites

Lynden Archer
Cornell University
laa25@cornell.edu
Anne Grillet
Sandia National Laboratories
amgrill@sandia.gov

Polymer Solutions and Melts

Randy Ewoldt
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ewoldt@illinois.edu
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
University of Crete
dvlasso@iesl.forth.gr

Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Paulo Arratia
University of Pennsylvania
parratia@seas.upenn.edu
R. Sureshkumar
Syracuse University
rsureshk@syr.edu

Interfacial Rheology

Gordon Christopher
Texas Tech University
gordon.christopher@ttu.edu
Sachin Velankar
University of Pittsburgh
velankar@pitt.edu

Computational Rheology

Jay Schieber
Illinois Institute of Technology
schieber@iit.edu
Roland Winkler
Forschungszentrum Jülich
r.winkler@fz-juelich.de
Self-assembled Systems and Gels
  Surita Bhatia
Stony Brook University
surita.bhatia@stonybrook.edu
Kelly Schultz
Lehigh University
kes513@lehigh.edu
Micro and Nanofluidics
  Charles Schroeder
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
cms@illinois.edu
Siva Vanapalli
Texas Tech University
siva.vanapalli@ttu.edu
Biological Macromolecules: Proteins, Cellulosic Biomass and other Biomaterials
  Jai Pathak
MedImmune, Inc.
PathakJ@Medimmune.com
Patrick Underhill
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
underhill@rpi.edu
Probe Microrheology
  Eric Furst
University of Delaware
furst@udel.edu
Roseanna Zia
Cornell University
zia@cbe.cornell.edu

Poster Session

Prospective presenters must use the Web-based submission procedure to submit abstracts by August 14, 2015. The organizers are:
John Dorgan
Colorado School of Mines
 jdorgan@mines.edu
      Nicolas J. Alvarez
Drexel University
 
Poster presenters will have an area of 48 inches wide by 48 inches tall to attach each poster to; push pins will be provided.

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Updated 28 July 2015