Title: Multi-Scale Simulations of Rheology and Flow of Commercially Important Materials:Paints,Shampoos,and Polyethylenes

Speaker: Prof. Ronald G.Larson

Time: May, 14, 10:00

Venue: Lecture Hall 324, Building 2, Wushan Science and Technology Park

[Abstract]

Ronald Larson received a B.S in 1975, an M.S. in 1977, and a Ph.D. in 1980, all in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Larson became a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1996, and Department Chairman in 2000, after working for 16 years at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He also served as interim Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department for a year, and is a member of that department, the Mechanical Engineering Department, the Applied Physics Department, and the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program. Larson’s research interests are in the structure and flow properties of viscous or elastic fluids, sometimes called “complex fluids”, which include polymers, colloids, surfactant-containing fluids, and liquid crystals, as well as the methods of shaping such materials into useful products. He is the author of the monograph “The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids”. He is a recipient of AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research (2000), the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology (2002), and the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (2019).In 2003,he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. 

Announced by School of Molecular Science and Engineering