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88th Annual Meeting (Feb 2016)

Technical Program & Organizers


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The Society of Rheology 88th Annual Meeting will have nine thematic sessions and a poster session, which includes the annual student/post-doc poster competition. The plenary lectures will be given by Eric Furst, (University of Delaware, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering), Zvonimir Dogic (Brandeis University, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics) and the 2016 Bingham Medalist, Michael Cates (Cambridge University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics). A presentation will also be given by the 2016 Metzner awardee, Evelyne van Ruymbeke (Université catholique de Louvain, Bio and Soft Matter and Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences ).

Authors should submit an abstract by October 14, 2016 through the World Wide Web using the SoR abstract submission site. The planned sessions and the corresponding chairs are given below.
  

Suspensions, Colloids and Granular Media

    Jason Butler
University of Florida
butler@che.ufl.edu
Jeremie Palacci
UC San Diego
palacci@ucsd.edu

Micro/Nano Fluidics and Probe Rheology

Mónica Oliveira
University of Strathclyde, UK
monica.oliveira@strath.ac.uk
Gordon Christopher
Texas Tech University
gordon.christopher@ttu.edu

Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics & Instabilities

Sandra Lerouge
Université Paris Diderot, France
sandra.lerouge@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Becca Thomases
UC Davis
thomases@math.ucdavis.edu

Biorheology & Active Fluids

David Saintillan
UC San Diego
dsaintillan@eng.ucsd.edu
Christian Wagner
Universität des Saarlandesy, Germany
c.wagner@mx.uni-saarland.de

Emulsions, Foams & Interfacial Rheology

Cécile Monteux
ESPCI Paris, France
cecile.monteux@espci.fr
Sachin Velankar
University of Pittsburgh
velankar@pitt.edu

Polymer Solutions & Melts

Carlos R López-Barrón
ExxonMobil Chemical Company
carlos.r.lopez-barron@exxonmobil.com
Nicolas Alvarez
Drexel University
nja49@drexel.edu
Advanced Techniques and Methods
  Anthony Kotula
NIST
anthony.kotula@nist.gov
Matthew E. Helgeson
UC Santa Barbara
helgeson@engineering.ucsb.edu
Solids & Composites
  Jon Seppala
NIST
jonathan.seppala@nist.gov
Cathy Jackson
Dow Chemical
cljackson@dow.com
Self-assembled Systems, Gels and Liquid Crystals
  Kendra Erk
Purdue University
erk@purdue.edu
Virginia Davis
Auburn University
davisva@auburn.edu

Poster Session

Prospective presenters must use the Web-based submission procedure to submit abstracts by December 9, 2016. The organizers are:
Daniel Blair
Georgetown University
dlb76@georgetown.edu
      Steve Hudson
NIST
steven.hudson@nist.gov
 
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 07 January 2017