Detailed schedule

All times refer to UK time – British Summer Time (BST), London (and Aberystwyth)

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Monday 6th July, Theme A: Foam structure, Surface area minimization, Plateau’s laws, topological properties of cellular materials, packing problems.

Time	Speaker	Title
13:00-13:10	The Organisers	Welcome
13:10-13:40	Gerd Schroeder-Turk	Keynote: The Kelvin, Kepler and Quantizer problem: Crystalline optimal forms and meta-stable disordered forms
13:40-13:55	Christophe Raufaste	Geometrical evolution during the collapse of soap-film catenoids
13:55-14:10	Sergei Lishchuk	Detachment force of particles from fluid droplets
14:10-14:25	Break
14:25-14:40	Lukas Koch	Creating Honeycomb Structures in Macroporous Polymers by Solvent-Driven Phase Separation
14:40-14:55	Friederike Dehli	Generation of gelatin-based hydrogel foams with controllable pore sizes and pore openings
14:55-15:15	Flash Session	Hamann: On how the Morphology affects Water Release of Porous Polystyrene Dupont: Cellulose nanocrystals-based Pickering HIPE to prepare porous materials Davies: Interaction between a descending cube and a soap film S. Cox: Bubble entrainment by a sphere falling through a horizontal soap foam Jing: The structure of two-dimensional foams with finite contact angle
15:15-15:30	Break
15:30-15:45	Gael Ginot	Non-pairwise interactions between bubbles in wet foams
15:45-16:00	Andy Kraynik	Simulation of Random Wet 3D Foams
16:00-16:15	Nicolas Vandewalle	How size ratio and segregation affect binary sphere packings
16:15-16:30	Peter Griffiths	Small-angle neutron scattering studies of the interfaces in aqueous foams stabilized by surfactants, polymer and their mixtures
16:30		Close

Tuesday 7th July, Theme B: Life and death of Foams: liquid drainage, diffusive coarsening, coalescence / film rupture.

Time	Speaker	Title
13:00-13:05	The Organisers	Welcome
13:05-13:35	Emmanuelle Rio	Keynote: Life and death of surface bubbles
13:35-13:50	Naoya Yanagisawa	Collective bubble collapse dynamics in a foam
13:50-14:05	Benjamin Dollet	Coarsening of foams with gas mixtures
14:05-14:20	Break
14:20-14:35	Ed Llewellin	Magmatic foams: the Halemaumaau lava lake
14:35-15:05	Flash Session	Muin: Use of micro-CT and pore network modelling as an innovative way to characterise liquid foam dynamics Embley: Stability and drainage of foam bounded by porous media Boakye-Ansah: Early-time solution for drainage in soils and foams Alvarenga: Stabilization of CO2-in-brine foams with amine oxide surfactants Krzan: Analysis of saponin-chitosan mixtures at the air-water interface with vibrational sum-frequency generation and their role in foam properties Hohenschutz: The impact of nano-ions on non-ionic surfactant foam properties Creatto: CO2-foams stabilized by SDS-CAHS surfactant mixture Czakaj: Synergistic foaming properties of lauroyl ethyl arginate and cellulose nanocrystals Hummel: Development of a steam frothing system for testing “Barista”-specialties Langevin: Coarsening of aqueous foams: microgravity experiments
15:05-15:20	Reinhard Hohler	Dynamics in foams near the jamming transition: a microgravity experiment
15:20-15:35	Break
15:20-15:35	Slavka Tcholakova	Interplay between the rate of surfactant adsorption and hydrodynamic conditions during foaming
15:35-15:50	Sebastien Andrieux	Drainage and Stability of Solidifying Hydrogel Films
15:55-16:10	Sascha Heitkam	An instability mechanism in foam drainage
16:10-16:30	Flash Session	Courbin: Making soap bubbles by blowing air onto a soap film Mariot: A new setup for giant soap film characterization Pasquet: Stability of giant soap films Pérez Gramatges: Foam stability and bubble growth under high pressure/high temperature conditions: effect of gas type and surfactant Courbin: The shrinkage of surface bubbles Rodriguez: Growth of a dense bubble cloud in CO2-saturated water in microgravity conditions Guidolin: Controlling foam ageing in viscoelastic media Holland-Cunz: Phase-Field Simulations of Foam Ageing Based on Spontaneous Coalescence Pierre: Effervescence noise Huerre: Freezing foam
16:30		Close

Wednesday 8th July, Theme C: Foam flow, foam rheology, interfacial rheology, dynamics of surfactant-laden interfaces.

Time	Speaker	Title
13:00-13:05	The Organisers	Welcome
13:05-13:20	Nikolai Denkov	Synergistic effects of surface viscoelasticity and inter-particle attraction on foam and emulsion rheology
13:20-13:35	Florence Elias	Active trapping of micro-swimmers in a foam
13:35-13:50	Paul Grassia	Motion of an oil droplet through a capillary with oppositely charged surfaces
13:50-14:10	Flash Session	Rose: Liquid foam flow through/around a permeable defect Torres-Ulloa: Viscous froth model applied to the motion of a three bubble system Mezache: Level-set simulations of sheared 2D foams Tani: Foam droplet falling in a Hele-Shaw cell Viitanen: Predicting local yielding in dry foams using machine learning tools
14:10-14:25	Break
14:25-14:40	Anne-Laure Biance	Controlling foam stability with an electric field: thermal effects
14:40-14:55	Jonatan Mac Intyre	Controlling foam yielding using mechanical vibrations
14:55-15:10	Laurel Kroo	The Structural Adaptation of Two-Dimensional Air-Liquid Foam to Cyclic Inflation and Deflation
15:10-15:25	Break
15:25-15:40	Sylvie Cohen-Addad	Rheology of confined foams
15:40-15:55	Tirion Roberts	The flow of foam through vein-like geometries
15:55-16:10	Francois Villemot	Quasistatic shear of foams with Cellular Potts Model simulations
16:10		Close

Thursday 9th July, Theme D: Industrial and novel applications of liquid foams.

Time	Speaker	Title
13:00-13:05	The Organisers	Welcome
13:05-13:20	Pierre Trinh	Oxidizing foams
13:20-13:35	Anne-Laure Fameau	Designing responsive foams with an adjustable temperature threshold of destabilization
13:35-13:50	Tobias Lappan	X-ray particle tracking velocimetry in liquid foam flow
13:50-14:05	Behnam Keshavarzi	Application of Flotation for Enzyme Purification
14:05-14:20	Break
14:20-14:35	William Rossen	Foam Generation and Propagation in Porous Media
14:35-14:50	Sian Jones	Foams at extreme conditions: high temperature testing for steam foam applications
14:50-15:05	Leandro Lopes	Microfluidic Investigation of Foam Stability using Surfactant/Nanoparticle Systems at Reservoir Conditions
15:05-15:30	Flash Session	Li: Effects of Gas Trapping on Foam Mobility in a Model Fracture Stewart: Fracture dynamics in foam: Finite-size effects Trosseille: Setting of mineral foams Pugh: New Developments in the Chemistry of Fire-Fighting Foams Esmaeili: Comparison between squeeze flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids with applications to foam-formed papermaking process Johnson: Foam formation using soft porous media Timounay: Interfacial characterization of soap films used as artificial photosynthetic membranes
15:30	The Organisers	Closing remarks