IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows

Invited Speakers
Statistics of Dense Granular Materials Bob Behringer (Duke University, North Carolina, USA)

Motion of frictional grain packings Thomas C. Halsey (ExxonMobil Upstream Research, Houston, Texas)

Dense Granular Flows Down Inclines Jim Jenkins (Cornell University, USA)
James T. Jenkins is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of Engineering in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University. His recent research has focused on the formulation of constitutive relations for dense, dissipative, collisional flows; analytical descriptions of debris flows; and the modeling of wind-blown sand.

Investigating the Intermediate Granular Flow Regime Raffaella Ocone (Department of Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University)
Raffaella Ocone is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. She received her MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples, Italy, and MA and PhD from Princeton University, USA. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006 and Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2007. She is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Her research interests are in modelling complex systems, spanning from the hydrodynamics of solid/gas suspensions, to complex reaction networks. Recent work includes the modelling of biological systems.

Multiphase flow enigmas in inhalation delivery Dr Philippe Rogueda FRSC CChem CSci EurIng (Novartis UK)
Philippe Rogueda is a world expert on formulation science, especially on the formulation of medicinal aerosols. His expert lies in the field of colloid and physical chemistry, in relation to particle engineering and non aqueous formulations.

Granular Flows at the Single Particle Level Professor Jonathan Seville (School of Engineering, University of Warwick)
Jonathan Seville is Dean of Engineering at the University of Warwick, UK. He holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Universities of Cambridge and Surrey and has held visiting appointments at the University of British Columbia and the Technical University of Denmark. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. His research includes a wide range of solids processing activities, including particle formation, agglomeration, compaction and coating; fluidisation and reactor design; positron emission particle tracking; discrete element method modelling; and supercritical fluid processes.