Amherst Rheology Course 2022 (ARC22)

Lectures by:

H. Henning Winter, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA / USA,

Email: winter@umass.edu

Manfred H. Wagner, TUBerlin, Berlin / Germany

Schedule and Course Contents

Day one Tuesday, May 10, 2022

9:00 EST Informal Gathering (getting connected)

10:00 EST -11:30 EST: Topic 1-Introduction to Quantitative Rheology (Winter)

Joint Practice

11:45 EST -13:15 EST: Topic 2-Viscosity and Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy (Winter)

Joint Practice

Day two Wednesday, May 11, 2022

9:30 EST Informal Gathering (getting connected)

10:00 EST -11:30 EST: Topic3-Linear Viscoelastic Material Properties(Winter)

Joint Practice

11:45 EST -13:15 EST: Topic 4-The Rubber-like Liquid and the Wagner I Equation (Wagner)

Joint Practice

Day three Thursday, May 12, 2022

9:30 EST Informal Gathering (getting connected)

10:00 EST -11:30 EST: Topic 5-The Tube Model of Doi-Edwards and the Extended Interchain Pressure Model (Wagner)

Joint Practice

11:45 EST -13:15 EST: Topic 6-Gelation and Glass Transition in Soft Matter (Winter)

Joint Practice

Day four Friday, May 13, 2022

9:30 EST Informal Gathering (getting connected)

10:00 EST -11:30 EST: Topic 7-The Molecular Stress Function Model (Wagner)

Joint Practice

11:45 EST -13:15 EST: Topic 8-The Hierarchical Multi-mode Molecular Stress Function Model (Wagner)

Joint Practice

EST = Eastern Standard Time in the USA (Boston time)