Spring 2002

Average Attendance 39.0

2/1 Kao, University of Wisconsin, Biological Host and Biomaterial Interaction

2/8 Gavin, Duke University, Electro-rheological and Magneto-rheological Devices: Design, Modeling and Application to Vibration Isolation

2/15 Lacks, Tulane University, Energy landscapes and the rheology of supercooled liquids and amorphous solids

2/22 Wineman, University of Michigan, Thermo-Mechanical Response of Elastomers Undergoing Scission and Cross-linking at High Temperatures

3/1 Shkel, University of Wisconsin, Novel Technology for Shear and Normal Strain Detection with Generalized Electrostriction

3/8 Schieber, Illinois Institute of Technology, Molecular Modeling of Entangled Polymers in Single and Doubled Step Strains

3/15 Goldsmith, The Montreal General Hospital, The Micro- and Molecular Rheology of Human Blood

3/22 Wood-Adams, Concordia University, Molecular Modeling of the Biscoelastic Behavior of Metallocene Polyethylene

4/5 Colby, The Pennsylvania State University, Rheology of Glass Formation

4/12 Butler, University of Florida, Influence of hydrodynamic interactions on the dynamics of fibers and polymer sin suspension

4/19 Lodge, University of Wisconsin, On-line measurement of elasticity and viscosity in flowing polymeric liquids

4/26 Feigl, Michigan Technological University, A Stochastic Rheological Model for Polymeric Fluids

5/3 Heuzey, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Genie Chimique, Rheology of chitosan solutions

5/10 Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin, On the mathematical theory of fluid dynamic limits for collisional kinetic models