10th ANNUAL EUROPEAN RHEOLOGY CONFERENCE SHORT COURSES on "Advanced polymeric materials”

Programme of the short-courses :

• 08:00 Welcome of participants

• 08:30 Rheology and flow of polymer solutions and melts
  Roland Keunigs - Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

• 10:30 Flows of simple and complex fluids in microstructures: reactive processing and novel composite materials
  Francisco Chinesta  -ESI & EADS Chair, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

• 13:30 Flows of simple and complex fluids in microstructures: reactive processing and novel composite materials
  Christophe Binetruy - Faurecia Chair, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

• 16:00 Visit of Airbus

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During the 10th ANNUAL EUROPEAN RHEOLOGY CONFERENCE, the plenary lectures will be given by Prof. Jian Ping Gong (University of Sapporo, Japan, Department of Soft and Wet Materials), and Prof. David Pine (University of New-York, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering), the 2015 Weissenberg Awardee (ESR) and the 2015 recipient of the Maurice Couette Award (GFR).

The Conference will have 10 thematic sessions and a poster session, which includes a student/post-doc poster competition. The planned symposia are as follows:
- Advanced techniques and methods in rheology
- Colloids, suspensions, and granular materials
- Confined flows, microfluidics and rheology at the microscopic scale
- Food, cosmetic, active and biological rheology
- Interfacial phenomena, foams and emulsions
- Nano, micro and macroprocessing
- Polymers in solutions, selfassembling systems and gels
- Polymer melts, blends, composites and solid polymers
- Simulations and computational rheology
- Structured flows and instabilities

The conference will be held at the Nantes Events Center, ideally situated at the heart of the city, with a wide range of accommodation options nearby. Information on hotel reservation will be available soon on the website of the conference.