Programme 

Monday 17th June - Early Career Workshop


12:00 – 13:00 Arrival and Lunch 


Fluids Skills Talks


13:00 - 13:45 Duncan Hewitt (University of Cambridge)  An introduction to modelling complex fluids 

13:45 - 14:30 Timothy Phillips (University of Cardiff)  An introduction to computational methods for complex fluids 


14:30 - 15:00  Coffee Break 


Careers Talks


15:00 - 15:45   Kostis Zografos (Altair - https://altair.com/)  

15:45 - 16:30 Laura Kimpton (Sagentia Innovation - https://www.sagentiainnovation.com)  


ECR Flashtalk session


16:30 - 17:30 1-slide talks from attendees 


18:30 Dinner with ECRs and invited speakers at Tas, Bloomsbury (15 minute walk from UCL, https://tasrestaurants.co.uk ) 

Tuesday 18th June - All Career Stages Meeting
 

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and coffee 


Introduction to Non-Newtonian Fluids & BioActive Fluids: state of the art and current challenges 


9:00 – 9:35 David Smith (University of Birmingham - BioActive SIG Leader)  

9:35 – 10:10 Alexander Morozov (University of Edinburgh - Non-Newtonian SIG Co-leader) 


10:10 - 10:45 Coffee break 


Session 1: Pattern Formation


10:45 - 11:15  Philip Pearce (UCL)  Pattern formation by living droplets in chemoattractant gradients 

11:15 – 11:45 Anne Juel (University of Manchester) Microfluidic model of micro-haemodynamics in complex media

11:45 – 12:00 Joseph Webber (University of Warwick) Buckling and swelling instabilities of super-absorbent gels 

12:00 – 12:15 Marco Federico Vona (University of Cambridge) Instabilities of Strongly Aligned Active Plumes 

12:15 – 12:30 Wesley Ridgway (University of Oxford) Motility-induced patterning in signalling bacteria 


12:30 - 13:30  Lunch break 


Session 2: Transport in Complex Fluids


13:30 - 14:00 Oliver Jensen (University of Manchester)  Multicellular tissue rheology 

14:00 – 14:30 Edward Hinton (University of Melbourne) Blocking and diverting viscoplastic flows 

14:30 – 14:45 Anushka Herale (UCL) A minimal continuum model of clogging in spatio-temporally varying channels 

14:45 – 15:00 Valeria Ciccone (University of Manchester) Enrichment of soft capsule suspensions under shear flow in confined vessels leads to clogging 


15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 


Session 3: Microscale to Macroscale Modelling


15:30 - 16:00 Rachel Bearon (King's College London)  The spatial dynamics of populations of micro-swimmers in shear flow 

16:00 – 16:30 Helen Wilson (UCL) Modelling the first effects of viscoelasticity on suspensions and emulsions 

16:30 – 16:45 Catherine Kamal (University of Cambridge) Nanoscale to macroscale: modelling the flow and rheology of carbon nanoparticles 

16:45 – 17:00 Pyae Hein Htet (University of Cambridge) Hydrodynamic hovering of swimming bacteria