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