Conferences which PS3G members are involved in organising
FCFP2025 - Fouling and Cleaning in Food Processing 2025
March 25 to 27, 2025
Penck Hotel, Dresden, Germany
This quadrennial conference continues the series of meetings that began in 1981 in Lund, Sweden. Ian Wilson is one of the Technical Chairs.
Annual European Rheology Conference 2024
9th - 12th April 2024
Leeds, United Kingdom
"This meeting will bring together rheologists from all scientific disciplines, from academy to industry and government laboratories in a friendly, informal atmosphere to discuss and share ideas." Ian Wilson is co-chairing the sessions on Soft Solids and Viscoplastic Fluids.
Conferences, Meetings and Webinars at which PS3G members have presented their work
VVD 2024 Processing Machines and Packaging Technology
21-22 March 2024
Dresden, Germany
Ian Wilson presented a paper (in English) on 'Cleaning of walls soiled with cohesive material by obliquely impinging water jets'.
Chemeca 2023
1-3 October October 2023
Auckland, New Zealand
Ian Wilson presented papers on 'Cleaning thick soil layers by impinging water jets' and 'Aeration and rheology of buttercream icings'.
Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium 2023
6th-8th September 2023
Cambridge UK
Ian Wilson presented a paper entitled 'Refinements in the use of intraocular tamponades'.
International Congress on Engineering and Food 14
20th-23rd June 2023
Nantes, France
Karthikeya Deshmukh gave a talk on "Cleaning of simple cohesive soil layers in a radial flow cell and slit flow cleaning cell".
World Congress of Chemical Engineering 2023
4th-8th June 2023
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ian Wilson gave a Plenary Lecture titled "Chemical Engineers: masters of cleaning and decontamination".
ChemEngDayUK 2023
30th-31st March 2023
Belfast, United Kingdom
Karthikeya Deshmukh gave a talk 'Modelling soil removal as a moving concetration boundary layer in a radial flow cell' and won the Best Oral Presentation Award.
72nd Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering Conference
24 October 2022
Vancouver, Canada
Ian Wilson delivered a keynote lecture on 'Challenges in cleaning: Some very complex fluids and very complex fluid mechanics’.
Canadian Society of Rheology Mason Medal Award Conference - Prof. Ian Frigaard, UBC
25 October 2022
Vancouver, Canada
Ian Wilson presented work entitled 'Domestic Viscoplasticity: Taking your work home with you'.
Gordon Research Conference on Fluids in Disease Transmission and Contamination
14-19 August 2022
Mount Holyoake College, MA, USA
Ian Wilson presented a paper on 'Surface cleaning and decontamination’'.
FCFP2022 - Fouling and Cleaning in Food Processing 2022
28th-30th March 2022
Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France
Karthikeya Deshmukh gave a talk on 'Cleaning of cohesive soil layers in a radial flow cell'.
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Conferences which PS3G members were involved in organising
Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium 2023
6th-8th September 2023
Cambridge UK
Ian Wilson was a co-chair for this conference covering a wide range of opthalmological topics.
FCFP2022 - Fouling and Cleaning in Food Processing 2022
28th-30th March 2022
Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France
This was the latest meeting in the 4-yearly cycle of conferences on the topic. Its theme is 'Sustainability and shifting to a circular economy'. Ian Wilson was one of the Technical Chairs.
Conferences, Meetings and Webinars at which PS3G (and P4G) members have presented their work
20th October 2021
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (JNNFM) Complex Fluids Seminar Series
Ian Wilson gave a talk, 'Cleaning-in-place: case studies of coupled flows and complex fluids', as part of the JNNFM webinar series. A recording is available here.
8th-10th September 2021
UK Fluids Conference 2021
The UK Fluids Conference aims to bring together all those involved in fluid mechanics research in the UK. Saksham Sharma presented his work 'Toroidal analysis of an oscillating sessile drop' (oral presentation) and 'Cusps-filaments at receding viscoelastic contact line' (poster).
18th-20th August 2021
Nordic Rheology Conference & Nordic Polymer Days 2021
Janaki Umashanker gave a talk on her work 'The shear and extensional rheology of aqueous xanthan gum solution using the Giesekus multi-mode model' as part of the Nordic Rheology Conference which was organised jointly with the Nordic Polymer Days.
1st-4th June 2021
2021 Summer School on Soft Solids and Complex Fluids
Hosted by the Physics Department at UMass Amherst; run as a virtual event owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saksham Sharma gave a 3-minute "sound bite" presentation on his work 'Conformal maps and patterns in fluid dynamics'.
30th April 2021
Journal of Fluid Mechanics: Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series (George Batchelor Centenary)
Saksham Sharma gave a talk his work 'On a toroidal method to solve the sessile drop oscillation problem' (recording available here).
20th-22nd April 2021
Quantitative Models in Cleaning and Disinfection (ModCaD)
Julien Landel (University of Manchester) and Ian Wilson co-organised this EPSRC Workshop which was run as a virtual event owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
16th-20th September 2019
Viscoplastic Fluids: from Theory to Application (VPF8)
Jesus College, Cambridge
This biannual international conference was held at Jesus College. P4G members Ian Wilson and Rubens Rosario-Fernandes were members of the organising committee. A virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics featuring work presented at VPF8 is now available.
17th-20th April 2018
FCFP2018 - Fouling and Cleaning in Food Processing 2018
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Ian Wilson and Graham Christie served on the FCFP 2018 Technical Committee.
The book of abstracts is available as a pdf here.
11th-16th June 2017
Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning XII - 2017
Barceló Aranjuez (Hotel & Spa), near Madrid, Spain
Ian Wilson serves on the organising committee of the biannual Eurotherm conferences on heat exchanger fouling and cleaning.
31st March-2nd April 2014
FCFP2014 - Fouling and Cleaning in Food Processing 2014: 'Green cleaning'
Jesus College, Cambridge
P4G was the lead organiser of this conference. More information about meetings in the Fouling and Cleaning in Food Processing series held at Cambridge are available in the P3G archive.