Plenary Lecturers
Nicolas Roussel (IFSTTAR, France)
Suzanne Fielding (Durham University, UK)
Amy Shen (Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Japan)
Charles Schroeder (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
| Symposia | Organizers |
|---|---|
| Experimental methods & progress in rheometry | Maria Teresa Cidade (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Mahesh Padmanabhan (Mondelez, USA) Manfred Wilhelm (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany) |
| Interfacial rheology, confined flows & microfluidics. | Joung Sook Hong (Seoul National University, Korea) Jan Vermant (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Márcio Carvalho (PUC-Rio, Brazil) |
| Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, flow instabilities & shear banding |
Mónica Oliveira (Strathclyde, UK)
Roney Thompson (UFRJ, Brazil) Pier Luca Maffettone (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) |
| Self-assembling systems, polyelectrolytes and biomaterials. | Tadashi Inoue (Osaka University, Japan) Jason Stokes (University of Queensland, Australia) Rob Poole (University of Liverpool, UK) |
| Colloids, suspensions & granular media | Giovanniantonio Natale (University of Calgary, Canada) Norman J. Wagner (Univ. Delaware, USA) Xiang Cheng (University of Minnesota, USA) |
| Emulsions, foams, foods & cosmetics | Erin Koos (KU Leuven, Belgium) Edson Soares (UFES, Brazil) Mats Stading (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) |
| Polymer solutions, melts & blends | Nicole Demarquette (Ecole Tech. Sup. Montréal, Canada) Angel Moreno (Centro de Física de Materiales, Spain) Yuichi Masubuchi (Nagoya University, Japan) |
| Composites & multiphase systems | Marie-Claude Heuzey (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) Rakesh Gupta (West Virginia University, USA) Jaewook Nam (Seoul National University, Korea) |
| Rheology of glasses, gels & jammed materials | Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown University, USA) Igor Emri (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) George Petekidis (University of Crete - FORTH, Greece) |
| Rheology of living & active systems | Salima Rafai (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, France) Takuji Ishikawa (Tohoku University, Japan) Francisco R. Cunha (University of Brasília, Brazil) |
| Applications of rheology to industrial processes | Geraldo Spinelli Ribeiro (Petrobras, Brazil) Jinjun Zhang (University of Petroleum-Beijing, China) Norbert Willenbacher (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany) |
| Poster | Veruscha Fester (Cape Peninsula Univ. Technology, South Africa) J. Esteban López-Aguilar (UNAM, Mexico) Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) |