Midwinter Meeting 2025

The British Society of Rheology Midwinter Meeting will be held at The University of Edinburgh from 15th-17th December 2025.

Known affectionately as the "Winter Solstice" meeting, the BSR Midwinter conference is the main focal point of the British Rheology calendar. It brings together those working in fundamental and applied rheology for a single track, engaging meeting that encourages open dialogue, participation and collaboration. This year we will showcase the Wide-Ranging Applications of Rheology, with invited talks covering diverse areas including biology, geoscience, food science and engineering. The conference dinner will be held on 16th December at the World famous Scotch Whisky Experience.

We particularly encourage Early Career Researchers to present their work at the meeting, and instructions for abstract submission are given below.

Award Winner Talks

BSR Annual Award Winner 2025: From Steps to Scales: Transforming Rheology with i-Rheo and Beyond

Dr Manlio Tassieri, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow

BSR Gold Medalist: A thirty-year rheological learning curve

Prof Wilson Poon, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

BSR Vernon Harrison Awardee: Talk title TBC

Dr Peter Angerman, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Swansea University

Invited talks

From plants to formulation engineering: mechanical anisotropy in action

Prof Rosemary Dyson, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham

Rheology in volcanology: its importance for forecasting eruptions and assessing their hazards

Dr James Hickey, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter

Bubbles in dense suspensions

Dr Ivo Peters, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton

A detailed conference schedule will be published in due course.

Venue

A wide angle photograph of the Nucleus Building within King's Building campus at the University of Edinburgh

The meeting will take place in the Elm Lecture Theatre of the Nucleus at the King's Buildings Campus. The campus is readily accessible by public transport from Edinburgh City Centre, as described here. There are many hotels and guest houses in and around Edinburgh City Centre, a few popular examples being:

The Scholar at the Pollock campus of the University, 30 minutes walk to conference venue
Radisson Blu in the City Centre, 50 minutes walk to conference venue
Travelodge Cameron Toll, 15 minutes walk to conference venue

Registration

Please use this link to register. The registration fee includes all sessions, coffees breaks, lunches on 15th and 16th and the Gala Dinner on 16th. Registration will close on 1st December 2025.

BSR Student or Retired Member

BSR Member

Non-Member

Single day rate (not including Gala Dinner)

Additional Gala Dinner ticket (partners/guests)

£70

£150

£185

£45

£80

You can become a member of the British Society of Rheology by following this link.

Schedule

Monday 15th December
12:00-13:15	Arrival, lunch and posters
13:15-14:00	INVITED SPEAKER From plants to formulation engineering: mechanical anisotropy in action Rosemary Dyson, University of Birmingham
14:00-14:20	Shear-Induced Migration of Circulating Tumour Cells in Inertial Microfluidic Flows Ben Owen, University of Edinburgh
14:20-14:40	Linking structure to viscoelasticity in concentrated solutions of monoclonal antibodies: the quest for an appropriate mesoscopic length scale Alfred Lanzaro, University of Glasgow
14:40-15:15	Coffee and posters
15:15-16:00	BSR GOLD MEDALIST A thirty-year rheological learning curve Wilson Poon, University of Edinburgh
16:00-16:20	In-situ Rheological Analysis of Covalent Adaptive Network Fracture and Repair Rebecca Cass, Northumbria Unversity
16:20-16:40	Modelling the increased failure toughness of double network hydrogels Suzanne Fielding, Durham University
16:40-17:00	GROUP PHOTO
Tuesday 16th December
09:00-09:45	INVITED SPEAKER Rheology in Volcanology: its Importance for Forecasting Eruptions and Assessing their Hazards James Hickey, University of Exeter
09:45-10:05	The degeneracy of flat elastic particles with area-dependent potential energy Luke Debono, University College London
10:05-10:25	Yielding and order in dry deformable droplet suspensions Achille Quarante, University of Edinburgh
10:25-11:00	Coffee and posters
11:00-11:20	Drag force reduction due to rotation in granular media Robin Burton, University of Edinburgh
11:20-11:40	Thixotropic modelling of concrete pumping Tom Eaves, University of Dundee
11:40-12:00	Creases on a uniaxially compressed yield stress fluid Thomasina Ball, University of Warwick
12:00-13:15	Lunch and posters
13:15-14:00	BSR VERNON HARRISON AWARDEE Peter Angerman, Swansea University
14:00-14:20	Potential Flow Solutions for Viscoelastic Fluids Henry Broadley, University of Manchester
14:20-14:40	Harnessing Machine Learning for Constitutive Modelling of Viscoelastic Fluids in CFD Joshua Cummings, University of Strathclyde
14:40-15:15	Coffee and posters
15:15-15:35	From bulk to local: elucidating flow instabilities and fracture during the “yielding” transition of direct ink writing formulations Esther García-Tuñón, University of Liverpool
15:35-15:55	Fat-Sugar-Substituted Icings: Plausible possibility or just a piping dream? Peter Cooper, University of Sheffield
15:55-16:15	Modelling breakdown of food during gastric processing Alexandros Makrypidis, Imperial College London
16:15-16:35	Making banana jam; the role of particle curvature in dense suspension rheology Gavin Melaugh, University of Edinburgh
1900	Conference Dinner, Scotch Whiskey Experience, Royal Mile
Wednesday 17th December
09:00-09:45	INVITED SPEAKER Bubbles in dense suspensions Ivo Peters, University of Southampton
09:45-10:05	Tunable Double Yielding of Bacterial Biofilms Laura Porath, ESPCI Paris
10:05-10:25	Emergence of rolling constraints in depletion-induced colloidal gels Huadan Xu, University of Edinburgh
10:25-11:00	Coffee and posters
11:00-11:45	BSR ANNUAL AWARD From Steps to Scales: Transforming Rheology with i-Rheo and Beyond Manlio Tassieri, University of Glasgow
11:45-12:05	Viscoelastic Instabilities in Porous Media Jack King, University of Manchester
12:05-12:25	How droplets remove particles from surfaces Abhinav Naga, University of Edinburgh
End of meeting

Abstract submission

If you would like to present a poster at the meeting, please send the title to bsr2025@ed.ac.uk before 1st December 2025.

This article was published on 2025-03-05