97th Annual Meeting:
Abstracts, RRS and Letters of Invitation
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-The deadline for abstract submission to the 97th SOR Annual Meeting in Boston
is May 15th.
-The deadline for applications to the Rheology Research Symposium
is May 15th.
-If you require a letter of invitation for VISA purposes, please contact: secretary@rheology.org
Short Course Announcement:
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
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Bulletin Sneak Peak: Report from the 96th SOR Annual Meeting in Santa Fe
Fellows at Bingham Banquet 2025
Interested in learning more about SOR volunteer opportunities? Join us for a VOLUNTEER INFO SESSION on JUNE 9 at 1PM ET / 10AM PT to learn about ways you can get involved in SOR, share your ideas, and ask questions!
We’ve revived our Industry Spotlights!
Li Industry Spotlight
Future of Rheology Seminar
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Please join the monthly virtual Future of Rheology seminar series on Thursday, May 28th, 2026, from 1–2:00 PM EDT.
·Rob Campbell, Northeastern University,“Modeling the structural origins of increased elastic modulus in brush-mediated colloidal depletion gels”
·Guillermo Camacho, University of Granada, Self-assembly and rheo-microscopy under time-dependent magnetic fields
JNNFM+JOR+RA Seminar Series
Stefano Aime
, ESPCI Paris (France)
Rheologica Acta Publication Award 2026 talk “A two-axes shear cell for rheo-optics”
Wednesday 20th May 2026, 17.00 CET (11AM EDT).
Arthur B. Metzner Centennial Commemorative Issue in Journal of Rheology
Art Metzner
Manuscripts are invited on Rheology-related advances inspired, directly or indirectly, by the work of the late Arthur B. Metzner in experiments, theories, modeling and computation involving rheology and the behavior of complex fluids under flow.
Kudos to Journal of Rheology Publication Awardees
E. d’Ambrosio, D. Gilbert, F. Blanc, C. Cohen, and E. LemaireRheology of suspensions of cubic particlesJ. Rheol. 69, 807-828 (2025)
SoR Members elected as AAAS Fellows
Congrats to JoR Associate Editor, Emanuela del Gado, and SOR Member-at-Large, Arezoo Ardekani, for being elected into the 2025 Class of AAAS Fellows
‘Round the Globe
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Upcoming rheology meetings: from Boston, to Kraków, Guangzhou, Naples, Samos, Vancouver, San Diego and beyond…
100th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium Registration Open
Join us at the University of Delaware for the historical 100th ACS CSSS with significant rheology programming, June 21-24. www.colloids2026.org
for registration, housing, travel and programming. Check out this C&EN article
about the event.
Opportunities
Postdoc opportunity in multimaterial 3D printing in Larson Lab at Stanford University
We are recruiting highly motivated candidates for fully funded postdoctoral positions with flexible start dates. Funded positions are currently available in two project areas:
· Additive Manufacturing of Structural Battery Composites for Sustainable Air Transportation
· Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing of Helically Architected Metamaterials and Antennas
For more details, and to apply, please visit: Positions | Larson Lab
Early Career Scientist Prize (ECSP) on Soft Matter
The Commission on Soft Matter (C7) of IUPAP seeks nominations for its 2026 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Soft Matter that recognizes contributions in the field of “physical properties of soft matter”. Successful candidates will have received their PhD after January 1, 2018 (excluding career interruptions) and should be the principal performers of original work of outstanding scientific quality in soft matter physics.
Nominations for the 2026 ECSP are due on July 15, 2026.
More information can be found here
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Questions? Reach out to Michael Rubinstein at mr351@duke.edu.
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