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Applied Rheology Volume 16 · Issue 4 220 The Society’s Site Announcements of the Individual European National Rheological Societies Time period September 2006 to February 2007 The international bimonthly journal Applied Rheology offers all European rheological societies an extended platform for communication with their members and other rheologists. Two special issues of Applied Rheology each year provide a number of pages dedicated to announcements from rheological societies. These may be a meeting announcement for the mem- bers of your society, an activity supported by your society, address changes, etc. In addition there will be also some space reserved for individual announcements. The motivation behind this offer is to collect the announcements that are usually transmitted to us by individual members of the national societies or conference organizers and then printed throughout the year in Applied Rhe- ology. Strict deadlines for providing information to be printed in these special issues are February 1st and August 1st, respectively. We are able to offer sending these special issues – which as usual con- tain scientific contributions, patents, conference calendar and conference reports, buyers guide, news – to all members of your community at a very reduced rate, or even without extra charge, depending on the current agreement between your society and Applied Rheology. Editors of Applied Rheology Austrian Group of Rheology Belgian Group of Rheology www.cit.kuleuven.ac.be/cit/ltrk/bgr.html British Society of Rheology http://innfm.swan.ac.uk/bsr Bulgarian Society of Rheology Czech Group of Rheology Dutch Rheological Society www.mate.tue.nl/nrv European Society of Rheology www.rheology-esr.org/ French Group of Rheology www.univ-lemans.fr/sciences/wgfr German Society of Rheology www.drg.bam.de/ Hellenic Society of Rheology http://esperia.iesl.forth.gr/~hsr/HSR.html Israel Society of Rheology Italian Society of Rheology www.sir-reologia.com/ Japanese Society of Rheology cmasuko2.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SRJ/SRJ.html Nordic Rheology Society www.nordicrheologysociety.org Polish Society of Engineering Rheology Portuguese Society of Rheology Romanian Society of Rheology Slovene Society of Rheology Society of Rheology (USA) www.rheology.org Spanish Group of Rheology reologia.us.es/index.html Swiss Group of Rheology www.AR.ethz.ch/FR/ Vinogradov Society of Rheology www.ips.ac.ru/rheo Rheological Societies or Groups and their Home Page (if existing): Get the Rheological Societies online at www.appliedrheology.org

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Applied RheologyVolume 16 · Issue 4220

The Society’s SiteAnnouncements of the Individual European

National Rheological Societies

Time period September 2006 to February 2007

The international bimonthly journal Applied Rheology offers all European rheological societies anextended platform for communication with their members and other rheologists.

Two special issues of Applied Rheology each year provide a number of pages dedicated toannouncements from rheological societies. These may be a meeting announcement for the mem-bers of your society, an activity supported by your society, address changes, etc. In addition therewill be also some space reserved for individual announcements. The motivation behind this offer isto collect the announcements that are usually transmitted to us by individual members of thenational societies or conference organizers and then printed throughout the year in Applied Rhe-ology.

Strict deadlines for providing information to be printed in these special issues are February 1stand August 1st, respectively. We are able to offer sending these special issues – which as usual con-tain scientific contributions, patents, conference calendar and conference reports, buyers guide,news – to all members of your community at a very reduced rate, or even without extra charge,depending on the current agreement between your society and Applied Rheology.

Editors of Applied Rheology

Austrian Group of Rheology

Belgian Group of Rheologywww.cit.kuleuven.ac.be/cit/ltrk/bgr.html

British Society of Rheologyhttp://innfm.swan.ac.uk/bsr

Bulgarian Society of Rheology

Czech Group of Rheology

Dutch Rheological Societywww.mate.tue.nl/nrv

European Society of Rheologywww.rheology-esr.org/

French Group of Rheology www.univ-lemans.fr/sciences/wgfr

German Society of Rheologywww.drg.bam.de/

Hellenic Society of Rheologyhttp://esperia.iesl.forth.gr/~hsr/HSR.html

Israel Society of Rheology

Italian Society of Rheologywww.sir-reologia.com/

Japanese Society of Rheologycmasuko2.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SRJ/SRJ.html

Nordic Rheology Societywww.nordicrheologysociety.org

Polish Society of Engineering Rheology

Portuguese Society of Rheology

Romanian Society of Rheology

Slovene Society of Rheology

Society of Rheology (USA)www.rheology.org

Spanish Group of Rheologyreologia.us.es/index.html

Swiss Group of Rheologywww.AR.ethz.ch/FR/

Vinogradov Society of Rheologywww.ips.ac.ru/rheo

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� Workshop “Microrheology and Rheological Phenomena in Microfluidics”4th – 5th of October 2006, Karlsruhe

Microrheology has developed as a new prosperous field of activity for rheologists. Strongly driven byfundamental biotechnology research at the beginning, microrheological techniques now becomemore and more important for industrial and applied research also in other areas like nanomaterialscience, chemical process engineering or food technology. Microrheological techniques require onlyvery small sample volumes, some of them are non-invasive, others offer insight into rheological prop-erties of inhomogeneous materials with a spatial resolution on the micron scale or even below.Microfluidics concerns the handling of sample volumes of microliters or less, it includes well-estab-lished inkjet printing devices but also emerging lab-on-a-chip and micro process engineering tech-nologies. Due to the high surface to volume ratio in microfluidic devices rheological phenomena dueto interactions between device boundaries and fluid constituents can become much more importantthan for conventional processing techniques. Moreover, microfluidic devices are attractive to rheol-ogists since they allow experiments at elasticity numbers not accessible with conventional set-ups.Keynote lectures by internationally renowned speakers will summarize the state of the art inmicrorheology and rheological aspects of microfluidics. Current activities and future challenges inthese quickly emerging research areas will be presented. The Workshop will be chaired by Prof. Dr.N. Willenbacher, Vice President of Deutsche Rheologische Gesellschaft.

October 4, 2006

09:30 – 10:15 Microfluidics and Rheology – a view from both sidesP. Woias, F. Goldschmidtböing

10:15 – 10:35 Viscoelastic Properties of Suspensions of Magnetic Particles in Polymer and Gels:Effect of Confinement and External FieldG.K. Auernhammer, D. Collin, P. Martinoty

10:35 – 10:55 Hydrodynamic of Particle-Wall Interaction in Colloidal Probe Experiments: Com-parison of Vertical and Lateral Motion F. Benmouna, D. Johannsmann

10:55 – 11:15 Apparent slip flow associated with the molecular alignment in polymeric fluidsand liquidS. Hess, S. Heidenreich

11:45 – 12:30 Microrheology of Complex Actin NetworksA.R. Bausch

12:30 – 12:50 The Mechanics of Thin Hydrated Films: Application to Models of the PericellularCoatR.P. Richter, H. Boehm, J.E. Curtis, J.P. Spatz

14:05 – 14:50 Active and Passive Microrheology in Equlibrium and Non-Equlibrium MaterialsC.F. Schmidt, D. Mizuno, M. Atakhorrami, G. H. Koenderink, F. C. MacKintosh

14:50 – 15:10 Modifications of the Viscoelastic Properties of the Pericellular CoatH. Boehm, C. H. J. Schmitz, R. P. Richter, J. P. Spatz, J. E. Curtis

15:40 – 16:00 Self-Assembly and Alignment of Biomaterials in Microfluidic EnvironmentR. Dootz, S. Köster, T. Pfohl

16:00 – 16:20 Assemblierungsmechanismus des muskelspezifischen Intermediärfilamentpro-teins Desmin: Einfluss von vererbbaren Mutationen auf das Wachstumsverhalteneinzelner Filamente und deren mechanische Eigenschaften in vernetzten Fila-mentsystemen N. Mücke, H. Herrmann, H. Bär

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16:20 – 16:40 Exploring Mechanics of Contractile Actin-Myosin Networks on Different LengthScalesG. H. Koenderink, M. P. Hansen, C. Brangwynne, F. C. MacKintosh, Z. Dogic, D. A.Weitz

17:00 General meeting of the DRG19:30 Evening Reception

October 5, 2006

09:00 – 09:45 Flow Regimes in Micro- and Nanofluidic DevicesS. Hardt

09:45 – 10:05 Electrically and Hydraulically Driven Flow in Nanoporous Packed BedsB. Schäfer, H. Nirschl

10:05 – 10:25 Surface Rheology of Membrane Lipids Measured with Axisymmetric Drop ShapeAnalysisM. Vrânceanu, G. Leneweit, K. Winkler, H. Nirschl

10:55 – 11:40 DWS Based Optical MicrorheologyF. Scheffold

11:40 – 12:00 Transient Microrheology of Salt-Responsive Hydrogels J. Sato, V. Breedveld

12:00 – 12:20 Field-Mediated Self-Assembly and Actuation of Highly-Parallel MicrofluidicDevices S. Bleil, D. Marr, C. Bechinger

12:20 – 12:40 Mechanical and optical high frequency rheology of wormlike micellar solutions C. Oelschlaeger, M. Schopferer, N. Willenbacher

13:55 – 14:40 Micro”bulk”rheometry of Complex FluidsC. Clasen

14:40 – 15:00 Capillary Break Up Rheology down to 150 nmC. Wagner, R. Sattler, J. Eggers

15:30 – 15:50 Mit mikroporösen Systemen zu monodispersen Emulsionen? H. P. Schuchmann, P. Idda, G. Badolato, U. Lambrich, Schubert

15:50 – 16:10 Working Conditions of Micro- to Macro-Scale Co-Flow CellsP. Fischer, C. Cramer, M.R. Duxenneuner, E.J. Windhab, J.J. Cooper-White

16:10 – 16:45 Final Discussion

Online Registration is possible at http://www.drg.bam.de/php/mrpm/reg.php

� Deadline for application for the “Young Rheologists Award 2007” of the German Societyof Rheology

In order to encourage junior scientists working in the field of rheology in Germany, in 1998 the Ger-man Society of Rheology (DRG) established a biannual award, the Young Rheologists Award (Rhe-ologie-Preis der DRG). For the period 2005/2006 the award was announced last year by the commit-tee of the DRG. The time for applications ends December 31, 2006. For further details see:http://www.drg.bam.de/drg_deutsch/07_rheologiepreis.htm

Werner Mielke

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President:Coussot, PhilippeLMSGC2 Allée Kepler77420 CHAMPS SUR MARNEPhone: x33.1.40 43 65 41Fax: x33.1.40 43 54 85E-mail: [email protected]

Vice President:Grossiord, Jean-LouisLaboratoire de PhysiquePharmaceutiqueUMR CNRS 86125 rue J.-B. Clément92296 Châtenay-Malabry CedexPhone: x33.1.46 83 56 14Fax: x33.1.46 83 58 82 Email:[email protected]

International Delegate:Tassin, Jean-FrançoisPolymères, Colloïdes, InterfacesAvenue Olivier Messiaen72085 LE MANS CedexPhone: x33.2.43 83 33 61Fax: x33.2.43 83 35 58E-mail: [email protected]

Secretary:Ponton, AlainUniversité Paris VII, Laboratoire Matière et SystèmesComplexesUMR70572 place Jussieu, Tour 33, 75251 Paris Cedex 05,Tel: x33.1.44 27 46 10Fax: x33.1.44 27 43 35E-mail: [email protected]

El Kissi, NadiaLaboratoire de RhéologieDomaine Universitaire1301, rue de la PiscineBP 5338041 Grenoble cedex 9 Tel: x33.4.76 82 70 16 Fax: x33.4.76 82 51 64E-mail: [email protected]

Treasurer:Guillet, JacquesUniversité Jean MonnetFaculté des Sciences et Techniques23 Rue du Docteur Paul Michelon42023 St. - EtienneTel: x33.4.77 481 550 Fax: x33.4.477 485 126 E-mail: guillet_ [email protected]

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� Main activities of the French Group of Rheology January – July 20066th Young Rheologists meeting, Lyon, March 6 – 8, 2006

Prof. Philippe Cassagnau, from Université Claude Bernard in Lyon organized the 6th young rheolo-gists meeting, in “Couvent de la Tourette” close to Lyon on March 6 – 8, 2006. 29 Ph.D. students andpost-doctoral fellows attended this meeting, covering various scientific skills, from granular materi-als, polymer nanocomposites, food science, etc. The presentations raised interesting and deep sci-entific discussions between the young participants. Prof. Jacques Guillet (University Jean Monnet –Saint Etienne) gave an invited lecture on polymer flow simulation. The participants has also the oppor-tunity to visit the Research and development center of the Society COATEX, and were thus involvedin applications of rheology in the formulation of thermoplastics and paintings.

� Upcoming activities41th Meeting of the French Group of Rheology, Cherbourg (France), October 18–20, 2006

The next GFR annual conference (41th annual GFR meeting) will be held in Cherbourg 18 – 20 October2006. The topic is “Suspension Rheology : environnemental and industrial aspects” and Prof. RachidMakhloufi will coordinate the organization. Many industrial materials will be covered such as nat-ural suspensions (muds, …), industrial ones for instance in civil engineering involving concrete, bitu-men, granular materials, ceramics, paints, as well as several examples in the food industry. Invitedlectures will be given by Dr. P. Coussot (Rheometry of pastes and granular materials), Dr. F. Lequeux(Rheology of suspensions and glassy polymers: analogies and differences) and Dr. R. S. Jacinto (Rhe-ology of natural vases: from experiment to knowledge).

More information can be found on the conference website at the following addresshttp://www.chbg.unicaen.fr/lusac/GFR/ and additional inquiries can be obtained [email protected]. Inscription forms are available online.

42nd Meeting of the French Group of RheologyThe meeting will be organized in Clermont Ferrand. Dr. Vincent Verney will be the chairman.

� Chief officers of the GFR 2005-2006

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� Annual Meeting of the Swiss Group of Rheology 2006The annual meeting of the Swiss Group of Rheology will be held on October 20, 2005 at Universityof Fribourg. Two invited lectures from G. Reiter (University Mulhouse/France) and I. Masalova(Cape Peninsula University of Technology/South Africa will set the frame for appriximately 12 t0 20oral and poster presentations. Registartion and a detailed program of the meeting togetherwith the abstracts of the given presentations will be published on the Society’s web-sitehttp://www.ar.ethz.ch/FR.

� Chief officers of the PGS/FR in 2004 - 2006

President:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich J. WindhabETH ZürichInstitute of Food Science and NutritionBuilding LFO E188092 Zürich�: [email protected]

International Delegate, Treasurer:Dr. Peter FischerETH ZürichInstitute of Food Science and NutritionBuilding LFO E208092 Zürich�: [email protected]

Board members:Dr. Adam BurbidgeVers-Chez-Les-BlancNestlé Research CenterP. O. Box 441000 Lausanne 26�: [email protected]

Dr. Dimiter HadjistamovDECE GmbHHelvetierstr.154125 Riehen�: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang KaiserETH ZürichInstitut für PolymereUniversitätstrasse 68092 Zürich�: [email protected]

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� Chief officers of the HRS in 2004 - 2006

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PresidentV.G. MavrantzasDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Patras1 Karatheodori Street26504 Patras, GreeceTel: x30.2610.997398Fax: [email protected]

Vice PresidentA.N. AlexandrouDept. of Mechanical andManufacturing Eng.University of CyprusP.O. Box 205371678 Nicosia, CyprusTel: x357.22892256Fax: [email protected]

SecretaryA. GotsisPolymer Materials and EngineeringDelft University of TechnologyJulianalaan 136 2628 BL Delft, The NetherlandsTel: x31.15.2784360Fax: [email protected]

Past-PresidentG. GeorgiouDept. Mathematics & StatisticsUniversity of CyprusP.O. Box 205371678 Nicosia, CyprusTel: x357.22892612Fax: [email protected]

Member-at-LargeS. HatzikiriakosDept. of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of British Columbia 2216 Main Hall, Vancouver BC V6T-1Z4, CanadaTel: x1.604.822.3107Fax: [email protected]

C. TsitsilianisDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Patras26500 Patras, GreeceTel: x30.2610.997500Fax: [email protected]

� AERC 2006

The 3rd Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2006) was held in Hersonisos, Crete, Greece,jointly organized by HSR, FORTH, the University of Crete and the University of Cyprus. A detailed con-fernece report of AERC 2006 can be also found on page 210 of this Issue of Applied Rheology.

� 4th International Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Complex Fluids

Another major event driven by HSR members is the “4th International Workshop on Non-EquilibriumThermodynamics and Complex Fluids (IWNET 2006)” that will take place in Rhodes, September 3-7,2006. The workshop is organized by Prof. V. Mavrantzas and will highlight the most recent develop-ments in the field of non- and beyond-equilibrium thermodynamics. It will bring together top scien-tists in the area from all over the world, such as Prof. Masao Doi, Prof. Gregoire Nicolis and Prof. AustenAngell, who have accepted to give the 3 invited talks in the Workshop. Other confirmed speakersinclude (so far): A. Beris, K. Binder, H. Brand, J. Casas-Vazquez, P. Daivis, B. Edwards, P. Espanol, D.Evans, U. Felderhof, M. Grmela, D. Jou, K. Kremer, M. Kröger, M. Laso, D. Lhuillier, G. Marrucci, H.-Ch.Öttinger, H. Pleiner, A. Ray, J. Schieber, D. Theodorou, B. Todd, T. Tzavaras, and M. Wagner. Selectedcontributions from the papers presented in the Workshop will be compiled and published in a spe-cial issue of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. More information about the Workshop(registration, hotel accommodation, important dates, etc.) will become soon available through itsweb page (http://www.nonequilibrium-thermodynamics.org).

� 15th International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow

Greece has been selected to host the 15th International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows (IWNMNNFF-2007). The Workshop will take place in Rhodes, June 14-17, 2007,with Prof. E. Mitsoulis being the Chair and Prof. V. Mavrantzas the Vice-Chair. More information aboutthe Workshop will be given in the next HSR Newsletter as well as via email in due time.

Vlasis Mavrantzas

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� Italian Society of Rheology Council

PresidentProf. Nino GrizzutiDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Napoli Federico IIPiazzale V. Tecchio 8080100 NapoliPhone: x39.081.7682285Fax: [email protected]@sir-reologia.com

SecretaryIng. Domenico GabrieleDepartment of Chemical Engineering and MaterialsUniversity of CalabriaVia P. BucciI 87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS)Phone: x39.0984.496687Fax: [email protected]@sir-reologia.com

OfficersBruno de [email protected]

Paolo D’[email protected]

Romano [email protected]

Pier Luca [email protected]

Alessandra Semenzato (Treasurer)[email protected]

Donatella [email protected]

Dino [email protected]

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� AERC 2007 in Naples/Italy

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� ESR Executive Council 2005 – 2009

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PresidentProf. Manfred H. WagnerPolymertechnik/KunststofftechnikumPolymerphysikTechnische Universität BerlinFasanenstraße 90 10623 Berlin Germany Tel: x49.30.31424125 Fax: x49.30.31421108 [email protected]

Past President Prof. Jean-Michel PiauLaboratoire de Rhéologie Domaine Universitaire BP 53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France Tel: x33.476825170 Fax: x33.476825164 [email protected]

TreasurerDr. Mike F. WebsterUniversity of WalesDept. of Computer ScienceSingleton ParkSwansea SA2 8PPU.K.

SecretaryProf. Crispulo GallegosDepartamento de Ingenieria Quimica Escuela Politecnica Superior Universidad de Huelva 21819 Palos de la Frontera (Huelva) SpainTel: x34.959.017418 Fax: x34.959.017477 [email protected]

Member-at-Large Prof. Ole HassagerDanish Polymer Centre Department of Chemical Engineering Bygning 229 Technical University of Denmark 2800 Lyngby Denmark Tel: x45.45.252968 Fax: x45.45.932906 [email protected]

Prof. Igor EmriUniversity of LjubljanaCenter for Experimental MechanicsCesta na Brdo 491125 LjubljanaSloveniaTel.: x386.1.4771.660Fax: [email protected]

Web Committee:Nadia el Kissichair, [email protected]

Chris Petrieco-chair, [email protected]

Evan [email protected]

Thematic Conferences and Schools:Igor Emrichair, [email protected]

Georgios [email protected]

Christophe Lanos

Francesco [email protected]

Weissenberg Award Committee:ESR PresidentManfred [email protected]

Martin [email protected]

Ken [email protected]

Roland Keunings [email protected]

Committee members (Delegates)Austrian Group of RheologyVolker Ribitsch

Belgian Group of Rheology Roland Keunings

British Society of Rheology Geoffrey Maitland

Czech Group of Rheology Ivan Machac

Dutch Rheological Society Han Meijer

French Group of Rheology Philippe Coussot

German Society of Rheology Helmut Münstedt

Hellenic Society of Rheology John Tsamopoulos

Italian Society of RheologyNino Grizzuti

Nordic Rheology Society Peter Szabo

Portuguese Society of Rheology Antonio Diogo

Slovenian Society of Rheology Miha Zumer

Spanish Group of Rheology Críspulo Gallegos

Swiss Group of Rheology Peter Fischer

Vinogradov Society of Rheology Valery Kulichikhin

Observers

Bulgarian Society of RheologyYatchko Ivanov

Israel Society of Rheology

Polish Society of Engineering RheologyE Walicki

Romanian Society of Rheology

Manfred H. Wagner andJean-Michel Piau

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� ICR Midterm Meeting, Hersonisos, Crete, April 27, 2006

On the initiative of ICR President Jae Chun Hyun, a midterm meeting of the International Commit-

tee on Rheology (ICR) took place on April 27, 2006, at Hersonisos, Crete, in conjunction with AERC2006. The International Committee on Rheology is the organization of world rheology that sponsorsthe International Congress on Rheology, which takes place every four years. The next ICR will be3 – 8 August 2008 in Monterey, California, USA.

ICR Delegates of 19 Rheology Groups (including delegates from Europe, Canada, China, Japan,Korea, and the US) were present when ICR President Jae Hyun opened the meeting and welcomeddelegates to this historic “first ever” midterm ICR meeting. So far, the ICR has only met on the occa-sions of the International Conference on Rheology, but it was felt that if we want to bring rheologyto the world-wide agenda, a closer cooperation of and more frequent exchanges between ICR dele-gates may be necessary.

Key strategies in pursuit of this ambitious aim are the creation of an ICR website and an ICR logo.Following the successful ICR2004 held in Seoul, South Korea, the Korean Society of Rheology donat-ed $10,000 USD to the International Committee on Rheology to set up and to cover operational costsof an ICR web site, now up and running at www.icr.tu-berlin.de. The ICR intends to operate its web-site as an umbrella of the National Society sites. The ICR site will not duplicate information that isavailable at the national level but rather will provide a platform for fast interlinking of rheologicalactivities worldwide. Suggestions and comments on the new website are welcome and may be for-warded to the ICR Secretary at [email protected].

So far, the ICR had no logo and local organizers of International Conferences on Rheology arefree to create their own logo. ICR delegates supported unanimously the proposal to accept a modi-fied version of the 2004 Conference as ICR logo until further decisions will be taken.

ICR delegates also welcomed the initiative of Prof. Paul Slatter to form a Southern African Soci-ety of Rheology (SASOR, see http://www.sasor.co.za/). SASOR will organize the 1st Southern AfricanConference on Rheology at Cape Town, South Africa, 24 – 27 September 2006.

According to the rules of the ICR, ICR2012 will be held in Europe, and the European Society of Rhe-ology has already started preparations of the site selection, which will be formalized at ICR2008.

Manfred H. Wagner, Secretary ICR

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