Dynamics of Complex Fluids - update 2006

Recent news

DCF10 is an Isaac Newton Institute Workshop being organized from Monday 2 October to Thursday 5 October 2006
This is 10 years after the original Dynamics of Complex Fluids programme, January-June 1996.
See also some informal pages for DCF10 which are being developed to make relevant information more easy to find.

These web pages are being made available to give participants and others an historical record of the 1996 DCF programme and to carry information about the 2006 workshop. The INI page referring to the 1996 DCF programme is not very informative and directs people to one of the informal pages here in lieu of a formal report on the DCF programme.

Dynamics of Complex Fluids
The following is based mainly on the informal DCF web pages from 1996:
NOTE that many of the pages have not been updated and contact information may well be out of date.
For example a number of distinguished and well-loved rheologists have died in the last ten years including, among the participants listed, Gianni Astarita, Jim Ferguson and Frank Leslie.

A partial record of publications arising from the DCF programme was prepared.

• The record of the NATO Advanced Study Institute
• A book based on the Royal Society-Unilever Indo-UK Forum
• See also the list of papers presented at the first workshop with some notes on subsequent publication.
• If you have any information to add to this, please e-mail Chris.Petrie@ncl.ac.uk

The programme at the Isaac Newton Institute (January-June 1996) has come to its end. These DCF pages are being maintained as:

• an archive which records (more or less) what took place -- (Workshops, conferences, seminars, ...)
• a place to collect information arising from the programme, e.g. what publications have come out of the 6-month programme.

Available information:

• A directory of people involved in the DCF programme.
• Record of the DCF Survivors' day.
• Programme for the final (Royal Society-Unilever) Forum.
• Record of past seminars.
• Summary of programme themes and dates and themes of meetings.
• Programme for the May (DSM) meeting.
• Programme from the April workshop/Euroconference.
• The secret of 14th March is revealed. There is an index to photos from that occasion.
• Themes and ideas for thoroughly informal coffee discussions.
• Information on contacting DCF programme organisers.

• The XIIth International Congress on Rheology, Quebec, August 1996 - official page.
• The XIIth International Congress on Rheology, Quebec, August 1996 - S of R page.
• The Society of Rheology
• Rheologica Acta

• The final DCF Newsletter (October 1995) with official information on workshops and conferences
• Reaching the Institute in Cambridge.
• You can also find out more about the Isaac Newton Institute.
• Suggestions for books which the Isaac Newton Institute might purchase for its library, for use during the programme, were invited. Please e-mail any suggestions to pearson@scr.slb.com or contact Anthony Pearson by other means.
• A list of "hot topics" -- topics under active discussion -- was planned. This was not updated during the programme, but who knows whether it will be thought useful later?
• Report of lunchtime discussion, 24th January
• Earlier newsletters, DCF Newsletter 1 (February 1995) and DCF Newsletter 2 (June 1995).

• Partial revision of information dated 11th September 2006.
• This page is maintained by Chris Petrie, Newcastle upon Tyne.