CPFP News
CPFP Researchers Give Talks at ISCST
A number of CPFP researchers attended the 16th International Coating Science and Technology Symposium held in Atlanta from September 9-12, 2012. Graduate students Kumar Agrawal, Kyle Price, Aruna Ramkrishnan, and Eric Vandre all gave talks, as did Profs. Lorraine Francis and Satish Kumar. Two industrial fellows (Hideki Hagiwara and Toshihide Horii) and two former students of Prof. Marcio Carvalho
also contributed talks.
At the symposium, Satish was named
Vice President for the Americas of the International Society
of Coating Science and Technology, and will become
President of the Society in 2014.
Kumar Gives Invited Talks
Satish Kumar was one of three speakers from overseas invited to give a talk at the 12th International Symposium on Applied Rheology, which was held in May 2012 at Seoul National University in Korea. Satish also gave a couple of invited talks at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which was held in July in Minneapolis.
Kalpathy Successfully Defends Thesis
Sreeram Kalpathy successfully defended his PhD thesis,"Coating and Printing on Chemically Patterned Surfaces," on March 19, 2012. Sreeram was advised by Professors Satish Kumar
and Lorraine Francis, and is now pursuing an academic career in India.
Kumar Delivers Plenary Lecture at 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting
Professor Satish Kumar delivered a lecture in the Interfacial Phenomena Plenary Session at the 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. The title of Satish's lecture was, "Transferring Liquid From One Surface to Another: The Interfacial Engineering of Printing Processes". Satish also gave talks on the work of former CPFP researchers Damien Brewer, Shawn Dodds, and Kara Maki. In addition, Eric Vandre, a PhD student advised by Satish and Marcio Carvalho, gave a talk on his work.
CPFP Paper Chosen as Research Highlight in Physics of Fluids
A paper by recent PhD graduate Shawn Dodds and Professors Marcio Carvalho and Satish Kumar was chosen as a Research Highlight by Physics of Fluids, one of the leading journals in fluid mechanics. The paper, whose citation is, "Stretching liquid bridges with moving contact lines: The role of inertia," Phys. Fluids 23 (2011) 092101, is featured on the journal web page at http://pof.aip.org.
Brewer Successfully Defends Thesis
Damien Brewer successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Particulate Film Production by Adsorption and Drag-out Processes," on August 9. Damien was advised by Professors Michael Tsapatsis and Satish Kumar, and is now working for E Ink.
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