Upcoming event details

Upcoming · October 22, 2026 · 10:50 a.m.Invited talk

Nonlinear properties of foodstuffs and damage-sensitive liquids

Laurel will speak at the Fall Polymer Event at the UMass Conte Center.

Thanks to Professor Todd Emrick for the invitation to give a talk.

UMass PSE events

Upcoming · October 22, 2026 · Poster session 4 p.m.Conference

Sara presents pressure-dependent dispersed materials at the Fall Polymer Event

Sara Watson will present her work on hydrostatic pressure and dispersed materials.

Upcoming · October 26, 2026 · 13:30–13:50 · Boston local timeConference

Full-field Imaging of Complex Fluids in a Cone-and-Plate Geometry on a Separated-Motor-Transducer Rheometer

Sai Srivatsa Kumar Ganugapati will present a talk at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. Copley/Kenmore, Lobby Level.

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Official artwork for the 97th Society of Rheology meeting · Boston, October 25–29, 2026.

Upcoming · October 27, 2026 · 14:30–14:50 · Boston local timeConference

Evaporation-Driven Arrested Network Self-Assembly in Liquid-Liquid-Phase-Separating Polymeric Fluids

Zhaofeng Peng will present a talk at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. Statler, Mezzanine Level (2nd Floor).

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Official artwork for the 97th Society of Rheology meeting · Boston, October 25–29, 2026.

Upcoming · October 28, 2026 · 13:30–13:50 · Boston local timeConference

Undulatory Transport in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids: Gait Optimization of Linkage Swimmers beyond Velocity-Maximization

Yoon-Je Choi will present a talk at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. Grand Ballroom A, Mezzanine Level (2nd Floor).

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Official artwork for the 97th Society of Rheology meeting · Boston, October 25–29, 2026.

Upcoming · October 28, 2026 · 16:25–16:45 · Boston local timeConference

Onset of Coil-Stretch in Disperse Polymer Solutions

Clara Middleton will present a talk at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. The Loft, Lobby Level.

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Official artwork for the 97th Society of Rheology meeting · Boston, October 25–29, 2026.

Upcoming · October 28, 2026 · 18:30–20:30 · Boston local timeConference

Influence of formulation on the structure of Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Evaporating Polymer Solutions

Parker Cole will present poster 53 at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. Georgian/Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon, Mezzanine Level (2nd Floor).

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Official artwork for the 97th Society of Rheology meeting · Boston, October 25–29, 2026.

Upcoming · October 28, 2026 · 18:30–20:30 · Boston local timeConference

PocketCaBER and PocketDoS: Low-cost open-source tools for teaching and learning advanced topics in fluid mechanics

Zhaofeng Peng will present poster 87 at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. Georgian/Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon, Mezzanine Level (2nd Floor).

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Four labeled panels compare a conventional CaBER instrument and its liquid filament with PocketCaBER, and a conventional dripping-onto-substrate setup with PocketDoS. The pocket designs use cell phone cameras; the original component labels and 3 mm scale bar are retained. — Figure 1 compares conventional CaBER and dripping-onto-substrate instruments with the PocketCaBER and PocketDoS designs.© The Author(s) 2026. Figure 1: Peng et al., arXiv:2608.16943v1 (2026). CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Panel (c): Warwaruk et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0, as credited in the paper.

Upcoming · October 28, 2026 · 18:30–20:30 · Boston local timeConference

Impact of hydrostatic pressure on microstructure and dynamics of dispersed materials

Sara Watson will present poster 101 at the Society of Rheology meeting in Boston. Georgian/Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon, Mezzanine Level (2nd Floor).

SoR presentation abstract SoR group schedule

Official artwork for the 97th Society of Rheology meeting · Boston, October 25–29, 2026.

Upcoming · November 9, 2026 · 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. · Minneapolis local timeConference

Polymer Zwitterions as Adhesive Surfactants

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Annelise (Annie) Busch, who will present her joint summer research with the Kroo and Emrick groups on adhesive polymer surfactants at AIChE. The work examines how salt concentration changes the rheology of adhesive droplet networks and the transition between surfactant-like interfaces and elastic films.

Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Materials Engineering and Sciences
Exhibit Hall B, Level 1, Minneapolis Convention Center

Anneliese Busch; Sara Watson; Hayden Marquard; Carla Steppan; Todd Emrick; Laurel Kroo

AIChE poster abstract

A group standing in front of the Silvio O. Conte National Center for Polymer Research sign. — UMass ASCENDS students with program organizer Professor Todd Emrick, summer 2026.

Upcoming · December 8, 2026Invited seminar

Department seminar at Brown University

Laurel will give a department seminar at Brown University.

Thanks to Professor Roberto Zenit for the invitation.

Brown fluid mechanics seminars

Upcoming · January 25–26, 2027Conference

Laurel to serve as discussion leader at TPC

Laurel will be a discussion leader at the Tosoh Polymer Conference in Gainesville, Florida.

Thanks to Professors Austin Evans and Brent Sumerlin for the invitation to serve as a discussion leader.

Tosoh Polymer Conference website