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Processing |
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K.H. Ahn (Seoul National, Korea)
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Paulo R. de Souza Mendes (Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil)
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- Polymer Processing
- Rheology of Nanocomposites
- Coating Processes
- Complex Fluids (Pastes, Suspensions, and Granular Materials)
- Electrospinning
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| 2. Complex
Flows (experimental and computational/theoretical studies) |
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Antony Beris (Delaware)
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Jan Dhont (FZ Juelich)
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- Flow Instabilities
- Shear Banding (joint with 6, 10)
- Viscoelastic Turbulence, Coherent Structures and Drag Reduction
- Hydrodynamics in Confining Media (Porous Media, Diffusion
through Networks)
- Advances in Computational and Multiscale Modeling of Complex
Viscoelastic Flows
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| 3. Homogeneous
Polymeric Systems |
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Lynden Archer (Cornell)
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Alexei Likhtman (Reading)
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- Entangled Polymer Melts
- Branched Polymer Melts
- Nonlinear Viscoelasticity
- Entangled Polymer Solutions
- Polyelectrolyte Solutions
- Single Molecule Dynamics (joint with 9)
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| 4.
Heterogeneous and Self-Assembling Polymeric Systems |
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Hiroshe Watanabe (Kyoto)
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Pier Luca Maffettone (Naples)
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- Polymer Blends (Above Tg)
- Block Copolymers
- Hydrogels and Bio-inspired Self-Assembling Systems (joint with
5)
- Polymer Composites and Semi-Crystalline Polymers
- Flow-induced Crystallization of Polymers
- Other Self-Assembling Systems
- Multiphase Flows (joint with 6)
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| 5. Bio-Rheology |
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Jim Harden (Ottawa)
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Christoph F. Schmidt (Gottingen)
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- Biopolymer Solutions and Gels (joint with 14)
- Mechanical Properties of Cells (joint with 12)
- Physiological Fluids
- Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Biological Systems
- Rheology of Tissues and Hydrogel Scaffolds (joint with 4)
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| 6. Suspensions
and Colloids |
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Norm Wagner (Delaware)
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Jeff F. Morris (CCNY)
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- Particle Level Simulations and Theory
- Jamming, Shear Thickening
- Shear Banding (joint with 2, 10)
- Yielding (joint with 10)
- Thixotropy of Particulate Systems (joint with 10)
- Dynamics and Scattering from Colloids
- Colloidal Hydrodynamics: shape effects, porosity, aggregates,
particles in viscoelastic media
- Field Effects (Magneto and Electro-Rheological Fluids)
- Multiphase Flows (joint with 4)
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| 7. Surfactants,
Emulsions and Foams |
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Denis Weaire (Trinity College, Dublin)
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Lynn Walker (CMU)
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- Impact of Interfacial Rheology on Foam Properties
- Bulk Behavior of Foams
- Emulsions and Blends (Rheology of Two-Phase Fluid-Fluid
Materials incl. Polymer Blends, Emulsions, Drops and Bubbles in Flow
Fields)
- Lyotropic and Structured Surfactant Systems
- Surfactant Mediated Rheology (Rheology of Systems in Which Added
Surfactants Alter Both Structure and Flow Behavior)
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| 8. Granular
Materials and Ageing |
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V. Kumaran (Bangalore, India)
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Melany Hunt (Cal Tech)
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- Experimental and Geo-Physical Flows (emerging experimental
techniques and New Experimental Results for Granular Flows in the
Lab and in the Field)
- Rheology of Granular Flows in the Quasi-Static Limit
- Collisional Flows and Granular Gases
- Advances in Simulation Techniques (DEM, kinetic and continuum)
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| 9.
Microfluidics |
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Todd Squires (UCSB)
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Annie Colin (Rhodia, France)
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- Non-Newtonian Flow in Microchannels
- Multiphase Flow in Microfluidics (drops, bubbles, particle
generation, droplet train behavior in microchannels)
- Polymers in Microchannels (inc. deformable bodies like Droplets,
Red Blood Cells)
- Migration Phenomena; Electrophoresis
- Single Molecule Dynamics (joint with 3)
- Slip and Boundary Effects in Microfluidics
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| 10. Solids/Gels
and Glasses from Soft and Composite Materials |
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Dimitris Vlassopoulos (Crete)
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Wilson Poon (Edinburgh)
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- Depletion Gels and Glasses
- Composite Gels and Glasses
- Slow Dynamics and Aging
- Yielding (joint with 6)
- Thixotropy of Particulate Systems (joint with 6)
- Shear Banding (joint with 2, 6)
- Non-Spherical Particles
- Comparing Polymeric and Colloidal Glasses (joint with 15)
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| 11. Interfacial
Rheology |
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Jan Vermant (Leuven)
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Kausik Sarkar (Delaware)
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- Complex Fluid Interfaces (joint with 9)
- Interfacial Driven Flows
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| 12.
Micro-Rheology |
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Eric M. Furst (Delaware)
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David A. Weitz (Harvard)
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- Active Microrheology
- Advances in Tracer Particle Microrheology
- Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy
- Microrheology of Cells (joint with 5)
- Non-Equilibrium Systems
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| 13. New
Experimental Methods |
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Gareth McKinley (MIT)
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Malcolm Mackley (Cambridge)
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- Free Surface Flows (CABER, droplet formation, spraying, ink jet)
- Rheo-Optics and Laser-Based Methods
- Rheo-NMR
- Microextrusion
- Novel Applications of Conventional Rheometers
- High Frequency Linear Viscoelasticity
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| 14. Food
Rheology |
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Erich J. Windhab (ETH)
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Jan Engmann (Nestle)
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- Biopolymer Solutions and Gels (joint with 5)
- Macromolecular Assemblies
- Colloidal Food Dispersions
- Food Suspensions
- Surface and Bulk Rheology of Food Emulsions and Foams
- Semi-Solid Foods
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| 15. Rheology of
Solids and Glasses |
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C. Michael Roland (NRL)
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Didier Long (Rhodia, France)
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- Glass-Transition Dynamics of Liquids and Polymers
- Blends and Dynamic Heterogeneity Close to the Glass Transition
- Mechanical Properties of Glassy Polymers
- Mechanical Properties of Semi-Crystalline Polymers and
Nanocomposites
- Effect of Nanoconfinement on Glass Transition Dynamics
- Comparing Polymeric and Colloidal Glasses (joint with 10)
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| 16. General
Rheology |
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Gary Leal (UCSB)
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Ralph Colby(Penn State)
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| 17. Poster
Session |
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Jai A. Pathak (NRL)
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Nina C. Shapley (Columbia)
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