Organization †

Co-organized by

• The Society of Rheology, Japan
• Japanese Society of Biorheology
• The Japan Society of Polymer Processing

in collaboration with

• Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
• Department of Macromolecular Science, Osaka University, Japan
• Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan
• Kyoto Convention Bureau

Organizing Committee †

Honorary Chair: †

Masao Doi (Beihang University, China)
Kiyohito Koyama (Yamagata University, Japan)

Chair: †

Hiroshi Watanabe (Kyoto University, Japan)

Secretary: †

Yuichi Masubuchi (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kenji Urayama (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)

Treasurer: †

Yumi Matsumiya (Kyoto University, Japan)

Members: †

Takeharu Isaki (Mitsui Chemicals, Japan)
Toshikazu Takigawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Tadashi Inoue (Osaka University, Japan)
Toshihisa Kajiwara (Kyushu University, Japan)
Keiji Sakai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hiroshi Suzuki (Kobe University, Japan)
Jun-Ichi Takimoto (Yamagata University, Japan)
Akio Nasu (Shiseido, Japan)
Takatsune Narumi (Niigata University, Japan)
Shuichi Maeda (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
Makoto Miura (Iwate University, Japan)
Hideki Yamane (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Satoshi Yamamoto (Dassault Systems, Japan)
Masahiro Ohshima (Kyoto University, Japan)
Masako Seki (Kansai University, Japan)

Local committee †

Hideki Yamane (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Shinichi Sakurai (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tadashi Inoue (Osaka University, Japan)
Osamu Urakawa (Osaka University, Japan)
Kenji Urayama (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Takashi Taniguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Yumi Matsumiya (Kyoto University, Japan)
Yuichi Masubuchi (Nagoya University, Japan)
Masanori Yasuda (Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing, Japan)
Yuya Doi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Takuya Katashima (Osaka University, Japan)

International Advisory Board †

Corneliu Balan ('Politehnica' University of Bucharest, Romania)
Maria Teresa Cidade (UNL - New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Igor Emri (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Peter Fischer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Gerry Fuller (Stanford University, USA)
Markus Gahleitner (Borealis, Austria)
Críspulo Gallegos (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Moshe Gottlieb (Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel)
Savvas Hatzikiriakos (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Jae Chun Hyun (Korea University, Korea)
David James (University of Tronto, Canada)
Daniel De Kee (University of Tronto, Canada)
Nadia El Kissi (Domaine Universitaire, France)
Valery Kulichikhin (Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russia)
Gary Leal (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Seung Jong Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Ashish Lele (National Chemical Laboratory, India)
Chris Macosko (University of Minnesota, USA)
Giuseppe Marrucci (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Irina Masalova (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Greg McKenna (Texas Tech University, USA)
Tom McLeish (Durham University, UK)
H.E.H. Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland)
Baltasar Mena (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Paulo R. de Souza Mendes (Pontifícia Universidade Católica – RJ, Brazil)
Jan Mewis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Mario Minale (Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy)
Peter Van Puyvelde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Peter Scales (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Tam Sridhar (Monash University, Australia)
Mats Stading (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden)
Roger I. Tanner (University of Sydney, Australia)
Dimitris Vlassopoulos (IESL-FORTH and University of Crete, Greece)
Manfred Wagner (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Ken Walters (Aberystwyth University, UK)
Norbert Willenbacher (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
Martin Zatloukal (Tomas Bata University, Czech Republic)
Qiang Zheng (Guizhou University, China)