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Monday 1 September 2008

8.30 am - 9.00 am       Registration

9.00 am - 9.15 am       Welcome

9.15 am - 10.15 am     Professor John Brady (California Institute of Technology, USA)

                                        Single particle motion in colloids:  Microrheology and microdiffusivity

10.15 am - 11.15 am   Professor Andrew Kraynik (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

                                        Foam structure and rheology: The shape and feel of random soap froth

11.15 am - 11.45 am   Tea/Coffee break

11.45 am - 12.45 pm   Professor Gary Leal (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

                                        Linear and nonlinear rheology of entangled, flexible polymers that are highly branched

12.45 pm - 2.30 pm     Lunch break

2.30 pm - 3.30 pm       Professor Eric Shaqfeh (Stanford University, USA)

                                         What can we learn about nonequilibrium reptation from single molecule experiments and

                                         slip-link simulations?

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm       Professor Nadine Aubry (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

                                         Electric field induced phenomena in micro-flows: Mixing, particle manipulation and self-

                                         assembly

4.30 pm - 5.00 pm       Tea/Coffee break

5.00 pm - 6.00 pm       Open forum/Discussion

Tuesday 2 September 2008

9.00 am - 10.00 am      Professor Sriram Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

                                         Thin-film instabilities of active suspensions

10.00 am - 11.00 am    Professor Oliver Jensen (University of Nottingham, UK)

                                         Hydrodynamic interactions between deformable interfaces

11.00 am - 11.30 am    Tea/Coffee break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm    Professor Justin Cooper-White (University of Queensland, Australia)

                                         Elastic instabilities in entry flows: A consequence of upstream stretch or downstream relaxation?

12.30 pm - 1.30 pm      Open forum/Discussion