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Volunteers
97th Annual Meeting:
Come to Boston! Still time to submit poster abstracts and Gallery of Rheology videos/pictures. If you need a VISA letter, contact secretary@rheology.org ASAP.
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97th SOR Annual Meeting : We are thrilled to announce a great lineup of plenary speakers!
Plenary Lectures
97th SOR Annual Meeting : Member Discounts
Join the Society of Rheology before June 30, 2026
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Regular membership is only $65.Student membership is even less - only $35!
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Benefits of SoR membership
97th SOR Annual Meeting : Short Course
Tribo-rheology: Flow and friction in predicting texture and performance
Short course instructor: Lilian Hsiao
Co-instructor(s): James Eickoff (Anton Paar), Keith Coasey (TA)
Dates: Two-day Course October 24-25, 2026, immediately preceding the Annual Meeting
Tribology Short Course
Announcing the Viral Rheologist Contest
Do you want to share the fun and excitement of rheology with the world? Be a VIRAL rheologist!Let’s make rheology cool and viral!
Submit a short video for a chance to win prizes and the love from your neighbor’s kids. After pre-screening, your video will be posted on the SOR social media accounts (Instagram and Facebook). The posts with the most likes by October 24, 2026 will be the winners. Winners will be announced at the 97th SoR Annual Meeting in Boston and featured in News Flows and the SoR website.
Industry spotlight
Keara Saud Greatwood
“I didn’t decide to pursue a career in industry until my last year in graduate school. I originally was more inclined to pursue the academic career path - wanting to be like the many teachers and professors who have impacted my life. However…” Keara Saud Greatwood
Future of Rheology Seminar
We invite you to join us for the monthly virtual Future of Rheology seminar series on Thursday, June 25th, 2026, from 1–2:00 PM EDT.
· Paniz Haghighi, Northeastern University Bending rigidity reshapes the structure and dynamics of colloidal gels
· Noah Eckman, Stanford University Surprises in injection force and flow rheology of physical hydrogels
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JNNFM + JOR + RA Seminar
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:00AM EDT
Johan Mattsson , University of Leeds (UK) The relaxation dynamics and role of dynamic facilitation in polymer glasses
JNNFM + JOR + RA Seminar
Letter from the President Dear Society of Rheology Members,The past year has been eventful and exciting for your Society, and I am pleased to say that it has been very successful…
Treasurer’s Report - 2026 From a fiscal standpoint, 2025 was a strong year for The Society of Rheology (SOR). The Society closed the year with net income of…
Welcome to the new SOR website! The work began in 2023, when Past SoR President, Jonathan Rothstein began discussions and negotiations with American Institute of Physics (AIP) to host the website on their new digital experience platform (DXP)…
‘Round the Globe
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Upcoming rheology meetings: from Boston, to Guangzhou, Naples, Samos, Vancouver, San Diego and beyond…
Recent Announcements
Advanced Materials Symposium
Bringing together researchers across flow chemistry, soft matter, rheology, complex fluids, fluid dynamics and manufacturing to discuss the future of advanced materials manufacturing.From discovery to additive manufacturing.7-8th September 2026,Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool
42nd Rheological Measurements Short Course (August 17-20, 2026), University of Minnesota This biennial course features lectures by world leading experts, on topics that will interest both industry and academia. It also offers hands-on experience on state of the art rheometers…A comparable course is offered in odd years at KU Leuven . Their next course will be offered in September 2027.
6th International US–Mexico–Canada Symposium on Advances in Polymer Science (MACROMEX 2026) Come to the beautiful Riviera Maya for a week of Polymer Rheology!Joins us and present your work in the Symposium on Polymer Rheology & Processing (PRP) at the 6th International US–Mexico–Canada Symposium on Advances in Polymer Science (MACROMEX 2026), to be held November 1–5, 2026, in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
West Coast Premiere of Rheology
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In RHEOLOGY Obie Winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury joins forces with his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty. Bulbul is obsessed with the physics of sand: how it flows like a liquid but then jams into a solid. Misha is obsessed with his mother. But they’re running out of time. In this boundary-pushing collaboration, mother and son challenge each other to a high-stakes experiment…Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, June 11-13. The Reviews are in!“A mind-boggling mix of granular flow and thanatology”- Kalman Migler More Info: REDCAT
Kudos
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Kudos to Gareth McKinley on his election to the National Academy of Sciences!
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