International Congresses on Rheology *
1st Congress September 21-24, 1948
Location: Scheveningen, The Netherlands.
Chairman: JM Burgers, Secretary: R Houwink.
2nd Congress July 26-31, 1953
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom.
President: GI Taylor, Secretary: GW Scott Blair.
3rd Congress September 23-30, 1958
Location: Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
Secretary: W. Meskat
4th Congress August 26-30, 1963
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Co-chairmen: RS Marvin and RS Rivlin.
5th Congress October 7-11, 1968
Location: Kyoto, Japan.
Co-chairmen: M Horio and B Tamamushi.
6th Congress September 4-8,1972
Location: Université Claude-Bernard, Lyon, France.
Organizers: G Vallet, B Persoz, and M Joly; Secretary C Smadja.
7th Congress August 23-27, 1976
Location: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Organizers: J Kubat, E Forslind, LE Gelin, FKG Odqvist; Secretary C Klason.
8th Congress September 1-5, 1980
Location: University of Naples, Italy.
Organizers: G Astarita, G Marrucci and L Nicolais.
9th Congress October 8-13, 1984
Location: Acapulco, Mexico.
Organizers: B Mena, A Garcia-Rejón and C Rangel-Nafaile.
10th Congress August 14-19, 1988
Location: University of Sydney, Australia.
Chairman: RI Tanner, Secretary: N Phan Thien.
11th Congress August 17-21, 1992
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Co-chairmen: MJ Crochet and J Mewis, Secretary: P Moldenaers.
12th Congress August 18-23, 1996
Location: Québec, Canada.
Chairman: D DeKee, Secretary: M Dumoulin.
13th Congress August 20-25, 2000
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Co-chairmen: P Townsend, K Walters, Congress Administrator: D Binding.
14th Congress August 22-27, 2004
Location: Seoul, Korea.
Co-chairmen: KJ Lee, JC Hyun, Secretary: SJ Lee.
15th Congress August 3-8, 2008
Location: Monterey, USA.
Co-chairmen: LG Leal, RH Colby,
Local Arrangements: GG Fuller, AM Kraynik, RL Powell.
16th Congress August 5-10, 2012
Location: Lisbon, Portugal.
Co-chairmen: C Gallegos, I Emri, J Maia.
17th Congress August 8-13, 2016
Location: Kyoto, Japan.
Co-chairmen: Masao Doi, Kiyohito Koyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Secretary: Yuichi Masubuchi, Kenji Urayama.
* For a detailed account of the Congresses 1948 to 1996 see:
RI Tanner and K Walters, Rheology: An Historical Perspective, Amsterdam 1998
