The program will be arranged around four plenary lectures with six parallel sessions and a poster session. A permanent exhibition of scientific and technological equipments will complement the program of the conference. Ample time will be given to participants to discuss and promote new partnerships during lunches, coffee breaks and social activities.
The full program of the conference is now available, where you can view the daily schedules, papers in the different sessions and search talks by author's last name. We thank all authors for submitting high-quality abstracts and we are very proud of this excellent scientific program.
1. Plenary lectures
Weissenberg lecture:
Foundation for Research & Technology -Hellas and University of Crete
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
New-York University, USA
Couette lecture:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
2. General symposia
Advanced techniques and methods in rheology
Peter Fischer, Switzerland - Sébastien Mannevile, France - Dimitris Vlassopoulos, Greece
Colloids, suspensions and granular media
Jeffrey Morris, USA - Guillaume Ovarlez, France
Confined flows, microfluidics and rheology at the microscopic scale
Lydéric Bocquet, France - Patrick Doyle, USA
Food, cosmetic, active and biological rheology
Stefania Baldursdottir, Denmark - Bill Frith, United Kingdom
Interfacial phenomena, foams and emulsion
Sylvie Cohen-Addad, France - Pier Luca Maffetone, Italy - Jan Vermant, Switzerland
Polymers in solutions, self-assembling systems and gels
Marie-Claude Heuzey, Canada - Christian Ligoure, France
Polymers melts, blends, composites and solid polymers
Leon Govaert, The Netherlands - Evelyne Van Ruymbecke, Belgium
Simulations and computational rheology
Francisco Chinesta, France - Gerhard Gompper, Germany
Structured flows and instabilities
Suzanne Fielding, United Kingdom - Bruno Vergnes, France
3. Poster session
The poster session will take place in a large dedicated area. Posters will be displayed all day on Wednesday 15th. Presenters have the option to sign up for the best poster awards which are generously supported by EPL. The awardees will have the chance to give a five minutes plenary presentation of their work on Friday morning.
Further instructions to poster presenters can be downloaded here.
4. Short courses
In advance of the conference (April 14th), a short course on Advanced polymeric materials will be proposed to interested participants. The course will comprise three complementary courses given by world-class scientists of the field. The content of the courses will be edited in the series Springerbriefs and each participant will receive a free copy of the book.
Rheology and flow of polymer solutions and melts
Roland Keunings, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Complex flows of micro/nano structured fluids: reinforced polymer composites
Francisco Chinesta, ESI & EADS Chair, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Flows of simple and complex fluids in microstructures: reactive processing and novel composite materials
Christophe Binetruy, Faurecia Chair, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
At the end of the session, a visit to the industrial site of Airbus near Nantes will be organized for the participants of the short course session.
The session of short courses will take place at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, which is easily accessible by tram or other means of transportation.
You will find below:
- the detailed program of the day,
- a map of Nantes tram system,
- a map of the campus of Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
5. Rheologica Acta Best Paper Award
The editors of Rheologica Acta are proud to announce the creation of the Best Paper Award which will be inaugurated in Nantes on the occasion of the 10th Annual European Rheology Conference.
6. Timetable
7. Detailed program
The different sessions and parallel sessions will be organized as detailed in the daily programs below (last update: March 20, 2015):
Daily program - Wednesday 15 April
Daily program - Thursday 16 April
Daily program - Friday 17 April
The full program of the conference is also available online. You can view the daily schedules, papers in the different sessions and search talks by author's last name.
