Speakers


Speakers are a mix of theorists and experimentalists, including several young researchers. List of prospective speakers is as following:

Granular flows


V Kumaran (IISc. Bangalore, India)
Prabhu Nott (IISc. Bangalore, India)
J Goddard (UCSD, USA)
Devang Khakhar (IIT Bombay, India)
James Thomas Jenkins(Cornell University, USA)
Tejas G Murthy (IISc. Bangalore, India)
Alexandre Valance (University of Rennes , France)
Michele Larcher (Free U of Bosen-Bolzano, Italy)
Tejas Murthy (IISC Bangalore, India)
Ashish Bhateja (Post Doc candidate, IIT Bombay, India)

Suspensions


Norman J Wagner (University of Delaware,USA)
Ganesh Subramanian (JNCASR, India)
Rochish Thaokar (IIT Bombay, India)
Mahesh Tirumkudulu (IIT Bombay, India)
Luigi La Ragione (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
John F. Brady (CalTech, USA)
Roseanna N. Zia (Stanford University, USA)
Anugrah Singh (IIT Guwahati, India)
Philippe Cousset (Univ. Paris-Est, France)
Ryohei Seto(Kyoto University, Japan)

Polymer & Liquid Crystalline Rheology


Ronald G. Larson (University of Michigan, USA): Simulations of Polymers and Surfactants at Interfaces
Ravi Jagadeeshan (Monash University, Australia)
Lynden A. Archer (Cornell University, USA)
Prabhakar R (Monash University, Australia): Concentration dependence of rheological properties of unentangled polymer solutions
Rob Poole (Liverpool University, UK)
Nicholas L. Abbott (UW Madison, USA)
Mohd. Suhail Rizvi (Post Doc candidate, France)

Interfaces


AP Baburaj (IIT Madras, India)
Dimitris Vlassopolus (University of Crete, Greece)
Sungyon Lee (University of Minnesota, USA)
Michel Y. Louge (Cornell University, USA): How can we predict capillary hysterisis?
Rama Govindarajan (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, India)
Ranga Narayanan (Univ. of Florida, USA): Interface instabilities from Resonance

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