New Executive Committe for 2026-27
Welcome to the new members of the Executive Committee:
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Special welcome to Jiye Lee, your new Student Representative to the Executive Committee
Jiye Lee is a third-year PhD candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Thanks for stepping up to serve!
Jiye Lee, Exec. Comm. Student Representative
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They are here to serve the community. Please reach out to a member if you have a suggestion, concern, or would like to get involved.
Reminder: Nominations for Bingham Medal, Metzner Award and SoR Fellowship
Bingham Medal Award is the highest honor of the Society of Rheology. Deadline is February 27, 2026
Arthur B. Metzner Award is bestowed upon an individual who has distinguished themselves in rheological research, rheological practice, or service to rheology. Deadline: February 27, 2026
SoR Fellowship recognizes a history of distinguished scientific achievement, a significant technological accomplishment, and/or outstanding scholarship in the field of rheology. Service to the Society is also an important component to Fellowship status. Deadline: March 13, 2026
We welcome applications from the full diversity represented in The Society of Rheology Membership. The awards will be bestowed at the 79th annual SoR Meeting, October 25-29, 2026, in Boston, MA.
Soliciting presenters for Future of Rheology Seminar Series
Are you interested in sharing your research findings with the community? The “Future of Rheology” is a monthly virtual seminar series highlighting exciting research performed for early stage rheologists. On the last Thursday of each month, we hold two 20-minute virtual talks + 5 minutes of Q&A. The top 6 presenters throughout the year will be selected as finalists to be recognized at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology in October.
If you are an undergraduate, graduate student, postdoctoral associate, early career industrialist and a current member of the Society of Rheology, consider submitting an abstract:
https://forms.gle/UgNLkY4EwAi35miU6
Click here for further info: Future of Rheology
Submission deadline, March 8, 2026
Soliciting Short Course Proposals
We are pleased to invite proposals for Short Courses to be offered in conjunction with the 2026 Society of Rheology Annual Meeting in Boston. We welcome proposals spanning a broad range of timely topics of interest to the rheology community. Instructors benefit from strong visibility within the community, an honorarium, and two nights of lodging before the conference. Courses are offered in a hybrid (in-person/virtual) format and may be recorded for inclusion in Rheology Academy, a planned online educational platform for Society members.
Expressions of interest at any stage are encouraged, including ideas for future years. Proposals for 2026 should be submitted by the mid of March via email to abhinendra.singh@case.edu and gilchrist@lehigh.edu .
Also, see Short Courses
JNNFM + JoR + RA Seminar
Seminar JNNFM + JoR + RA February
Orientation dynamics seminar
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Future of Rheology Seminar:
February 26 at 1PM EST
Hear the new voices in rheology!
Graph Neural Network for Multitask Prediction of Rheology and Microstructural Behavior in Suspensions
Armin Aminimajd, Case Western Reserve University
Second presentation: TBD
Join from Zoom Workplace app - Zoom
Meeting ID: 827 2887 0880 (Passcode: oobleck)
Contact: futureofrheology@rheology.org
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Biennial Workshop on Non-Newtonian Flow in Porous Media
The 3rd installment of the enjoyable biennial workshop on Non-Newtonian Flow in Porous Media will take place in Cargèse, Corsica, France, from May 11 to 15, 2026.
The website is open for abstract submission and registration: https://nnfip26.sciencesconf.org/ - all deadlines March 15th. Accommodation and registration are very affordable. Come and walk on the beach, where Napoleon threw his first pebbles, or ponder porous media with your favourite complex fluids…..
CSME-CFDSC-CSR 2026 – Call for Abstracts & Papers
On behalf of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), the Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada (CFDSC) and the Canadian Society of Rheology (CSR), we are delighted to announce the CSME-CFDSC-CSR 2026 International Congress, a joint conference to be held in the vibrant campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, on May 24-27, 2026.
May 24-27, 2026
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (BC)
The abstract deadline is extended to Feb. 22,
Click here for more info. CSME-CFDSC-CSR 2026
Soft Matter & Sensory Perception Summer School - July 2026
Following the great success of the first edition in 2024, we are delighted to organize a second Summer School on Soft Matter: From Fundamentals to Sensory Perception, which will take place at the beautifully located Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse in Corsica.
The summer school will take place this year, from July 20th to August 1st, 2026
Check it out. From the archives.
The Niels Bohr Library contains wonderful rheology documents and images.
SOR Annual Meeting 1948
SOR Annual Meeting 1948
Niels Bohr Library
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Save the Date! Join us for the 97th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology in Boston, MA on October 25-29, 2026.
Local Organizing Committee: Gareth McKinley (Chair), Safa Jamali, Jonathan Rothstein
Program Chairs: Travis Walker, Arezoo Ardekani