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WELCOME TO DROPLETS

Liquid droplets are of prime importance for many natural phenomena as well as for a broad variety of industrial processes. The aim of the 3-day international workshop Droplets 2015 is to bring together researchers working on droplets in the broad sense: from pure to complex fluids, from impact to evaporation, covering experimental, theoretical, and industrial perspectives. The workshop builds upon the successful Droplets 2013 workshop held in Marseille for the prix de l'or au gramme, and will consist of plenary keynotes lectures, oral presentations, poster presentations, and brainstorm sessions. The program will be shaped to stimulate group discussions and informal exchanges.

Registration

Please read the information about the registration procedure below

ON-LINE REGISTRATION

Registration is possible by clicking on the register button. On-line registration and payment can be performed in one step. After you have registered and paid you will receive automatically a confirmation of your registration by e-mail (PDF). Payment can be made per credit card (Mastercard/VISA and American Express). Dutch participants can also pay per bank through iDEAL. The secretariat has subcontracted payment by credit card to a secure payment service that guarantees confidentiality and security. If you cannot pay per credit card or iDEAL, an invoice can be sent on your request. Please click on the appropriate radio button at payment methods.

REGISTRATION FEES

Early registration is possible until July 8th. Late registration from July 9th till October 6th.

Attendee Early Late

Full conference fee € 400 € 600

Student full conference fee € 325 € 525

The registration fee includes:

Students

Students should upload a proof of their student status (e.g. signed statement from your Department head or supervisor). Post-doctoral researchers do not count as students.

Confirmation

You will receive immediately a confirmation (PDF) per e-mail of your registration data. Your confirmation ID-number is mentioned on this confirmation; you will need this for all correspondence with the secretariat registration@droplets2015.com Invoice

If you cannot pay per credit card or iDEAL or the University /Organization is paying for you, an invoice can be sent on your request. Please click on the appropriate radio button at payment methods. Per e-mail an invoice will be sent to you. After receipt of payment a confirmation (PDF) will be sent .

Supporting documents

All requests should be sent to the secretariat: registration@droplets2015.com

Letter of invitation

A letter of invitation can be obtained after your registration process has been completed. Contact the secretariat registration@droplets2015.com with your request. The letter will be sent to you by e-mail as a PDF file.

Certificate of attendance

Certificates of attendance can be obtained on request during and after Droplet2015.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations are accepted by e-mail to the secretariat registration@droplets2015.com The registration fee will be refunded minus 30% for cancellations received no later than August 31, 2015. Thereafter no refunds will be made.

Hotel accommodation

For hotel accommodation see the Hotel Accommodation page at this website. This page can be found in the main menu under "General Info".

Submissions

VIDEOS

Droplets 2015 will host a video contest in cooperation with Photron. This method of presentation is ideally suited for flow-related physics, and an excellent way to present your exciting results! The entries will be displayed on screens throughout the conference venue during the entire event. The best video will be awarded a monetary prize of 500 Euro!

Content
Video submissions should be no longer than 2 minutes in length; audio cannot be accommodated on site. Make sure your video is about your research and understandable for a broad audience. High quality videos are preferred. The video should start with a title screen, followed by the video. The title screen should consist of a black background with white text stating “Droplets 2015 video contest”, video title, abstract ID, contributor names and affiliations.

Submission
You can submit a video for the contest if you have an approved poster or talk. Use the abstract ID of this contribution as reference. The movies can be uploaded on YouTube and should have the text Droplets2015 video contest and your abstract ID in the description. You can subscribe for the movie contest by sending a short abstract, including the video title, abstract ID, contributor names and affiliations and video link to video@droplets2015.com. Video submission is possible until the 4th of October, 2015.

Prior to the abstract submission deadline, if you plan on entering the video contest, please send an email to the same address to let us know your intent to submit. This will help us gauge the total number of submissions as early as possible.

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERS

Please note that further detailed information will be available at a later date.

Talks
You are required to bring your presentation on your own computer or on a flash drive. If you bring your presentation on a flash drive and you want to use the computer in the lecture room, your presentation should be a Powerpoint or pdf file. A laser pointer and a microphone will be provided. Please remember to strictly observe and not exceed your allotted time: 12 minutes for the presentation and 3 minutes for questions. Please repeat all questions after they are asked. Often the audience does not understand or hear the question and it is extremely useful for the question to be repeated.

Posters
Posters have to be printed by the presenters. Poster boards and pins will be provided by the organisation of the conference. The posters should be A0 size, and in portrait orientation. Please note that posters without first-author presenters will not be considered for the poster prize.

Videos
Content:
Videos should be maximally 2 minutes long, audio cannot be accommodated on site. Make sure your video is about your research and understandable for a broad audience. The best video will be awarded 500 euros.

High quality videos are preferred. Begin with a title screen followed by the video. The title should consist of a black background with white text stating "Droplets 2015 video contest", video title, abstract ID, contributor names and affiliations.

Submission:
You can submit a video for the contest if you have an approved poster of talk. Use the abstract ID of this contribution as reference. The movies can be uploaded on YouTube and should have the text "Flow 14 video contest" and your abstract ID in the description. You can subscribe for the movie contest by sending a short abstract, including the video title, abstract ID, contributor names and affiliations and video link to video@droplets2015.com.

Conference Program

Tuesday 6 October

Wednesday 7 October

Thursday 8 October

Keynote Speakers

COLIN BAIN Colin Bain

Colin Bain is a native Scot who studied Natural Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving the Norrish Prize for physical chemistry in 1983. He then crossed the Atlantic to the “other Cambridge” where he received his PhD for work with George Whitesides at Harvard on self-assembled monolayers of thiols of gold. In 1988 he returned to Christ’s College, Cambridge on a Royal Society research fellowship and set up the UK’s first sum-frequency spectrometer, in collaboration with Paul Davies, for the study of surfactants at wet interfaces. He defected to Oxford and Magdalen College in 1991 and remained there for the next 14 years, investigating a wide range of problems on the structure and kinetics of surfactant adsorption at interfaces. Technique development continued to be an important part of his research, including ellipsometry and neutron reflection from flowing liquid surfaces and total internal reflection Raman spectroscopy. From 1997-2003 he was also a Director of the Oxford Science Park – a commercial property development for high-technology companies. In 2005, Colin Bain took up a chair of chemistry at Durham University in the north-east of England. While still interested in surfactants at interfaces, his research has broadened into other areas with a particular interest in the coupling between fluid mechanics and colloids and interface science and in the physical chemistry of phospholipid bilayers. From 2008-2012 he was a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, which is dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research and dialogue. He has received a number of national and international awards including the Corday-Morgan and Tilden Prizes of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Thomas Graham Lectureship, the Craig Lectureship (ANU, Canberra), the McBain Lectureship (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India) and the Lectureship Award of the Japanese Chemical Society. Like many Scots, his heart would have voted for independence but his head said No.

MICHAEL BRENNER Michael Brenner

Michael Brenner got his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago, moved to MIT and taught in the math department, and has been at Harvard since 2001.

DAVID BRUTIN

David Brutin received his M.Sc. / Engineering diploma in mechanical engineering in 2003 with a semester spent at the University of Iowa, College of Engineering. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Provence, France. He became Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille University, France in 2005, and Associate Professor 2009, after completing his Habilitation.

His work focuses on phase change heat transfer, pure and complex fluids physics (refrigerants, blood, nanofluids), soft matter, with applications in space science, aeronautics, biomedical, forensic science, and printing technology. He is author of more than 40 papers in peer reviewed journals, member of the editorial board of "Colloids and Interface Science Communications" published by Elsevier and « Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer » published by Begell House. He is editor of a collaborative book, in preparation, on « Droplet Spreading and Evaporation » published by Elsevier mid 2015.

HANS-JÜRGEN BUTT

Hans-Jürgen Butt studied physics at the Universities of Hamburg and Göttingen. He re­ceived his Diploma in 1986. Then he moved to Frankfurt to work in Ernst Bamberg's group at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics on light induced proton transport of bacteriorhodopsin. After his PhD in 1989 as a postdoc in Santa Barbara with Paul Hansma he got into contact with the newly developed atomic force microscope. From 1990-96 back in Frankfurt as a researcher he studied biological objects with the atomic force microscope. In this period the work on surfaces in particular on surface forces became a central issue. In 1996 he went to the institute for physical chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz as associate professor. There he focused on the physics and chemistry of interfaces. Three years later he joined the University of Siegen as full professor for physical chemistry. In 2002 he followed a call to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, where he is a director. His work focuses on the experimental physics of interfaces. Hans-Jürgen Butt is married and has three children.

EMMANUEL VILLERMAUX

Emmanuel Villermaux received an education in engineering and physics, and completed his Ph.D from the University of Paris VI, Pierre & Marie Curie in Grenoble. He spent there six years at CNRS, obtaining his habilitation from the University Joseph Fourier, before moving to Marseille where he now holds a position of distinguished Professor at Aix Marseille University, and at the Institut Universitaire de France. His interests are in the mechanics of deformable bodies in the broad sense, from fluids to solids, with a particular taste for mixing and fragmentation. He has identified the stretched sheet as the building block of stirred scalar mixtures, demonstrated the interaction rules between nearby sheets and discovered the coarse grained scale of randomly stirred mixtures. His work on free surface flows has singled out the role played by ligaments whose dynamics builds-up the drop size distribution of sprays.

STEPHEN WILSON

Professor Stephen Wilson holds the 1984 Chair in Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, United Kingdom and has research interests in the application of mathematics to a wide range of real-world problems in fluid mechanics. In particular, he has a longstanding collaboration with Dr Brian Duffy (also at the University of Strathclyde) and Professor Khellil Sefiane (at the University of Edinburgh) on various aspects of droplets. Joint work with former graduate students Gavin Dunn (Strathclyde) and Samuel David (Edinburgh) (see, for example, Dunn et al. J. Fluid Mech. 2009) led to the award of the Institute of Physics (IoP) Printing and Graphics Science Group Prize in 2009 for their “fundamental study of droplet evaporation”. Recent work with current Ph D student Jutta Stauber (see, for example, Stauber et al. J. Fluid Mech. 2014) has focused in the lifetimes of evaporating droplets. Stephen is the Joint Editor-in-Chief (with Professor Tom Witelski, Duke University, USA) of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics, is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), and is currently a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. Away from work, Stephen is a keen orienteer and represented Scotland against the other Home Nations in 2012 and 2014.

XUEHUA ZHANG

Xuehua Zhang completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University at end of 2004. Her PhD thesis was on nanobubbles at solid-water interfaces. After her PhD, she first worked as an Endeavour Research Fellow with Prof. Vincent Craig at the Australian National University (Canberra) and then with Prof. William Ducker at University of Melbourne. From 2009 on, she led her own research group, working on nanobubbles and nanodroplets, supported, among others, by Australian Research Council Fellowships. In 2012 she spent her sabbatical at the University of Twente. From July 2014 on she joined the staff of RMIT University in Melbourne as an Associate Professor and in October 2014 she was also appointed as a part time professor at University of Twente.

Important Dates

Date Event
November 2014 Abstract submission open
February 2015 Early registration open
29 May 2015
1 July 2015
8 July 2015

General Info

VENUE

The University of Twente is situated in Enschede, in the east of the Netherlands. Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport is approximately 150km / 2 hours from Enschede and is served by a good variety of international carriers with destinations including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles and New York.

The University of Twente is located on a campus between the towns of Enschede and Hengelo.

Click the image below for a map of the campus. The main program takes place in the Waaier.

Campus:

Venue Address:
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-53 489 2364
Web: www.utwente.nl/en

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TRAVEL INFORMATION

Transportation to the University of Twente

By Car:
The following car rental companies all operate out of Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport: Avis, Budget, Europcar, Hertz, National and Sixt. From the A1 motorway, take the A35 motorway towards Enschede. Then take exit no.26 Enschede-West/Universiteit. Follow the signs Universiteit. There are a number of car parks on the university campus which are all free of charges.

By Plane:
If you come by plane, usually you fly into Schiphol, the largest airport in the Netherlands, close to Amsterdam. There is an intercity train from Schiphol that goes straight to Enschede Central Station. The trip from Schiphol to Enschede takes about two hours. When you arrive at the train station in Enschede, take bus line 1 to 'Universiteit Twente'. There are several bus stops on the campus. (Second option: Switch trains in Hengelo and travel further with a regional train to station Enschede Drienerlo. This station is located at walking distance of the University of Twente main entrance (about 1 km).

By Train:
Take a train to Hengelo, Enschede or Enschede Drienerlo, then follow the bus instructions below.

To find train schedules, use the NS train journey planner

map

By Bus:
From Hengelo railway station take either bus 15 to Universiteit, or bus 8 or 9 to Enschede.
From Enschede railway station take either bus 1 to Universiteit or bus 9 to Hengelo.
From Enschede Drienerlo railway station take bus 1 to Universiteit.

For all public transport schedules, see http://9292.nl/en.

Weather
The weather in the Netherlands can be very changeable from day to day, and the character of each season may vary from one year to another. The average temperature in October is 10°C.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Prof. dr. Detlef Lohse

Prof. dr. Jacco Snoeijer

Dr. Hanneke Gelderblom

Dr. Stefan Karpitschka

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CONTACT INFORMATION

For information on registration please contact:

Conference secretariat Droplets 2015
CongresAssociatie Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
registration@droplets2015.com

For all inquiries about the program, please contact info@droplets2015.com