Fall ’99

Average Attendance 40.08

9/3 Janeschitz-Kriegl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Flow-induced Crystallization in Polymer Melts; High-speed as a Requirement for Kinetic Studies

9/10 Noriega, Plastics Institute, Medellin, Columbia, Role of the torque and rotational rheology in a 60 mm screw design for polypropylene

9/17 Stone, Harvard University, Dynamics of Foam Drainage

10/1 Steen, Cornell University, Capillary-driven inviscid pinchoff of a fluid: a simple ‘forming’ singularity

10/8 Higdon, University of Illinois, Fast O (N In N) Algorithms for Simulation of Concentrated Suspension and Emulsions

10/17-20 SOR Meeting Madison

10/29 Schmid, University of Wisconsin, Simulations of Flocculatin in Flowing Fiber Suspensions

11/4 Lih-Sheng, Computer-Aided Engineering for Gas-Assisted Injection Molding

11/5 Wilhelm, Max Planck Institute, High sensitive Fourier transform rheology

11/12 Gupta, University of Wisconsin, Rheological Software Sensors for On-line Optimizing Control of Polymerization Reactors

11/19 Lucey, University of Wisconsin, Unusual rheological behavior during the formation of milk protein gels

12/3 Casey, University of Wisconsin, A new Era of Polymer Synthesis with Metallocene Catalysts

12/10 Filisko, University of Michigan, Flow Profiles of suspensions under shear and electric fields: A model for Electrorheological activity