Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference.

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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 2nd Sept 2025, 02:00:06pm CEST

 
 
Session Overview
Location: Room 604
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025
9:30am
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9:45am
Opening Speech
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
Opening speech by the Conference Chairs — Prof. Stéphane Dorbolo (ULiège), Prof. Tristan Gilet (ULiège), and Prof. Benoit Scheid (ULB) — followed by a welcome address from Prof. Pierre Duysinx, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Mobility at ULiège
9:45am
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10:30am
Plenary Speech by Emmanuel Villermaux
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fragmentation with, and without mechanism: Are principles enough?
10:30am
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11:15am
Plenary Speech by Petra S. Dittrich
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Droplets-on-a-plate: High-throughput creation, analyses and applications
11:15am
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12:00pm
Poster Pitches Session 1
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
1:30pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Speech by Dominique Legendre
Location: Room 604
Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
Droplet lift force peak due to internal 3D flow bifurcation
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Oral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I
Location: Room 604
Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
4:00pm
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6:00pm
Oral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Philippe Bourrianne, ESPCI Paris, France
Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025
8:45am
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9:30am
Plenary Speech by Suzie Protière
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
Freezing water and hydrogel drops
9:30am
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10:15am
Poster Pitches Session 2
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
10:45am
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11:15am
Keynote Speech by Tadd Truscott
Location: Room 604
Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France
Extremely Large Droplet Formation and Breakup
11:15am
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12:15pm
Oral Session 7 | Impacts I
Location: Room 604
Chair: Emmanuel Villermaux, Aix Marseille Université, France
1:45pm
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2:15pm
Keynote Speech by Jose Manuel Gordillo
Location: Room 604
Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France
From drop splashing to Worthington jets
2:15pm
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3:15pm
Oral Session 10 | Coalescence & Break-up II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Catherine Barentin, University of Lyon 1 / Institut of Light and Matter, France
3:45pm
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5:00pm
Oral Session 13 | Impacts II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Dominique Legendre, Toulouse INP-IMFT, France
Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025
8:30am
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9:15am
Plenary Speech by Petia M. Vlahovska
Location: Room 604
Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
Dynamics of complex interfaces: biomimetic membranes, charged droplets, and active fluids
9:15am
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10:00am
Plenary Speech by Hans-Jürgen Butt
Location: Room 604
Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops
10:00am
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10:45am
Poster Pitches Session 3
Location: Room 604
Chair: Tristan Gilet, University of Liège, Belgium
11:15am
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12:15pm
Oral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics
Location: Room 604
Chair: José Manuel Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
1:45pm
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2:15pm
Keynote Speech by Wei Xiaofeng
Location: Room 604
Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France
Satellite Formation in Ligament Breakup: Viscosity and Stretching Effects
2:15pm
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4:00pm
Oral Session 19 | Wetting IV
Location: Room 604
Chair: Virgile Thiévenaz, CNRS & ESPCI Paris, France