News

New Members, September 2026

We are delighted to welcome new associate members to the Institute: Ester Garcia-Tunon (Liverpool), Simon Haward (Okinawa), Simon Rogers (Illinois) and Miles Morgan (Swansea) join our existing 55 Associate Members.

2026 Annual Lecture

The 2026 INNFM Annual lecture was given by Prof. Marco Ellero (Bilbao), on Bridging Scales in Polymeric Fluids: From Mesoscopic Dynamics to Thermodynamics-Informed Machine Learning. The lecture was hosted by Swansea University, on the Bay Campus, on Thursday 17th September.

Lake Vyrnwy Conference, April 2026

We co-organised a special meeting to celebrate 50 years of the Journal of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. The meeting took place at Lake Vyrnwy, Wales, April 8th-10th, 2026.

Biographical Memoir: Professor Ken Walters FRS

Ken Walters was a leading international figure in the field of rheology. He applied his mathematical training to the analysis of many common test procedures, contributed to the formulation of nonlinear constitutive equations for viscoelastic fluids and pioneered computational studies in rheology. The Royal Society has now published Ken's "Biographical Memoir", written by Russell Davies and Roger Tanner. It can be found at: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2024.0002

Thornton Hall Conference, April 2025

The INNFM, in conjunction with the British Society of Rheology, will hold a “Spring Meeting on Rheology” between Wednesday 9th and Friday 11th April 2025. Further details can be found on the Events page, which will soon receive further updates.

New members, June 2024

The INNFM is delighted to welcome new members. Tom Barker and Steven Lind (both Cardiff) and Bjornar Sandnes (Swansea) join as Core Members, while Elisabbeta De Angelis (Bologna, Cardiff),  Charles Schroeder (Illinois), Pier-Luca Maffetone (Naples) join as Associate Members.