Spring 2000

Average Attendance 48.08

1/28 Shkel, University of Wisconsin, Magneto- and Electroactivity of Anisotropic Composites

2/18 Bird, University of Wisconsin, Kinetic Theory of Polymers: Is It Worth the Stress and Strain?

2/25 Graham, University of Wisconsin, Flow instabilities in polymeric liquids

3/2 Yarin, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bending Instability of Electrically Charged Liquid Jets of Polymer Solutions in Electrospinning of Nanofibers

3/10 Solomon, University of Michigan, Flow-induced structural evolution of colloidal gels of adhesive spheres

3/24 Echeverria, Madrid, Spain, A study of physical aging by rheological and thermodynamic measurements

3/31 Giacomin, University of Wisconsin, Sag in Plastic Pipe Extrusion

4/7 Rankin, University of Wisconsin, Probing Nonlinear Conduction in Electrorheological Suspensions

4/14 Khan, North Carolina State University, Asociations in Solutions: Colloids, Amphiphiles and Macromolecules

4/28 Morris, Georgia Institute of Technology, Microstructure, rheology, and migration in concentrated suspensions

5/5 Douglas, NIFT, Correlated Motion in Cooled Liquids

Fall 2000

Average Attendance 39.4

9/15 Carpick, University of Wisconsin, The nanomechanical response of ultrthin organic films to shear forces

9/22 Phule, University of Pittsburgh, Synthesis and Processing of Novel Magnetorheological (MR) Fluids For Vibration Control and Other Applications

9/29 Zukoski, University of Illinois, Shear and Compression of Aggregated Suspensions

10/6 Waleffe, University of Wisconsin, Hidden coherent states and the onset of shear turbulence in Newtonian fluids

10/13 Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Modeling Flow-Induced Microstructure in Polymer Blends

10/20 Schieber, Illinois Institute of Technology, Reptation and Transient Network Theories: An Unholy Marriage?

10/27 Kumar, University of Wisconsin, Analysis an suppression of instabilities in polymer flows

11/3 Amis, NIST, Combinatorial Methods for Knowledge Discovery in Materials Science

11/10 Sternstein, Renssenlaer Polytechnic Institute, Nonlinear Viscoelastic Properties of Amorphous Polymers Containing Nanofillers as Related to the Payne Effect In Filled Elastomers

12/1 Turng, University of Wisconsin, Computer-aided Engineering (CAE) for Injection Molding

12/8 Koelling, Ohio State University, The Transient Extensional viscosity of Dilute and Semi-Dilute Polymer Solutions and the Impact of Extensional Rheology on Coating Flows