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

Email: manfred.wagner@tu-berlin.de

 

 

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)