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Workshop Description

The Viscoplastic Fluids Workshop is a small, intellectually stimulating, single-track technical program along with time for engaged discussions on topics relevant to viscoplastic fluids. This is the 9th installment in the VPF series and the first time being hosted in the USA.

A history of prior workshops can be found here. (previously held in the UK, New Zealand, Canada, France, Brazil, Cyprus, and Switzerland)

Location & Lodging
The Allerton Park & Retreat Center is part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The retreat center includes a mansion with on-site lodging, beautiful formal gardens, pristine natural areas, 1,500 acres of woodland and prairie areas, and 14 miles of hiking trails. https://allerton.illinois.edu/

On-site lodging and all meals are included in full registration, creating a retreat-style setting that enables reflection, discussion, and scholarly engagement with other participants.

Timing & Travel
Starting with an evening reception on Sunday Oct 8 and ending just before lunch on Thursday Oct 12, 2023. Fly to Chicago O’Hare (or Champaign-Urbana) from anywhere in the world.

Registration

Full Registration ($915) includes lodging, all meals, and VPF9 technical programming.

Local Part Time Registration (no lodging) ($100) is available for locals (e.g. UIUC faculty, staff, postdocs, students) who do not want lodging at Allerton. Includes access to all workshop sessions. Meals provided as requested at no extra cost. Local Participation is funded in part by a generous gift from the Grainger College of Engineering.

You are cordially invited to attend. Space is limited. Register soon.

Register Here (closed)

Questions? Contact the organizers at vpf@lists.illinois.edu

Confirmed participants and speakers include:

Gareth McKinley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Ian Frigaard (University of British Columbia, Canada), Monica Naccache (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Paulo de Souza Mendes (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), John de Bruyn (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Mazi Jalaal (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Group Photo of Attendees

Attendees at the 9th Viscoplastic Fluids Workshop (VPF9), held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Monticello, Illinois, USA, October 8-12, 2023.
From left to right, (Front Row, Seated) Somayeh Sepahvand, Nadia Nikolova, Tommy Livesay, Maxwell Marsh, Monica Naccache, Paulo de Souza Mendes, Ian Frigaard, Destiny    Gray; (Second Row) Varda Faghir Hagh, Tassawar Iqbal, Eric Burgeson, Simon Rogers, Mehryar Jannesari Ghomsheh, Samyak Chordia, Shatakshi Gupta, Chai Saengow, Gareth McKinley, Jiachun Shi; (Third Row) Abhi Shetty, Jimmy Griebler, Chandler Benjamin, John de Bruyn, Abhi Singh, Rodrigo Reboucas, Mazi Jalaal, Randy Ewoldt. 

Sponsors

VPF9 is supported in part by donations from the following units at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign:

• Grainger College of Engineering (GCOE)
• Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MechSE)
• Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
• College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS)
• School of Chemical Sciences (SCS)
• Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)

and from corporate sponsor:

• Anton Paar