Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference.

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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025
8:00am - 9:30amRegistration & Welcome coffee
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
9:30am - 9:45amOpening Speech
Location: Room 604
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 - 10:30amPlenary Speech by Emmanuel Villermaux
Location: Room 604
Fragmentation with, and without mechanism: Are principles enough?
10:30am - 11:15amPlenary Speech by Petra S. Dittrich
Location: Room 604
Droplets-on-a-plate: High-throughput creation, analyses and applications
11:15am - 12:00pmPoster Pitches Session 1
Location: Room 604
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
12:00pm - 1:30pmPoster Session 1
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53
1:30pm - 2:00pmKeynote Speech by Dominique Legendre
Location: Room 604
Droplet lift force peak due to internal 3D flow bifurcation
1:30pm - 2:00pmKeynote Speech by Djamel Lakehal
Location: Room 304
Computational droplet dynamics and heat transfer: from microfluidics and MedTech applications to large-scale energy systems
1:30pm - 2:00pmKeynote Speech by Catherine Barentin
Location: Room 204
Wetting of complex fluids
2:00pm - 3:30pmOral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I
Location: Room 604
2:00pm - 3:30pmOral Session 2 | Leidenfrost
Location: Room 304
2:00pm - 3:30pmOral Session 3 | Emulsions
Location: Room 204
3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee Break
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
4:00pm - 6:00pmOral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II
Location: Room 604
4:00pm - 6:00pmOral Session 5 | Wetting I
Location: Room 304
4:00pm - 6:00pmOral Session 6 | Coalescence & Break-up I
Location: Room 204
6:00pm - 7:30pmWelcome Reception
Location: B4 outside place (level -1)
Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025
8:45am - 9:30amPlenary Speech by Suzie Protière
Location: Room 604
Freezing water and hydrogel drops
9:30am - 10:15amPoster Pitches Session 2
Location: Room 604
10:15am - 10:45amCoffee Break
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
10:45am - 11:15amKeynote Speech by Tadd Truscott
Location: Room 604
Extremely Large Droplet Formation and Breakup
10:45am - 11:15amKeynote Speech by Burak Eral
Location: Room 304
Non-photochemical laser induced nucleation: Transient thermocavition bubbles triggered by light for controlling crystallization from solution
10:45am - 11:15amKeynote Speech by Maja Vuckovac
Location: Room 204
Wetting dynamics on stochastic superhydrophobic surfaces
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 7 | Impacts I
Location: Room 604
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 8 | Droplets on Ice
Location: Room 304
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 9 | Friction
Location: Room 204
12:15pm - 1:45pmLunch
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
12:15pm - 1:45pmPoster Session 2
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Jose Manuel Gordillo
Location: Room 604
From drop splashing to Worthington jets
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Hanneke Gelderblom
Location: Room 304
Active bacterial pattern formation inside evaporating droplets
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Elise Lorenceau
Location: Room 204
Stress distribution upon the impact of droplet
2:15pm - 3:15pmOral Session 10 | Coalescence & Break-up II
Location: Room 604
2:15pm - 3:15pmOral Session 11 | Evaporation I
Location: Room 304
2:15pm - 3:15pmOral Session 12 | Slippery Surfaces
Location: Room 204
3:15pm - 3:45pmCoffee Break
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
3:45pm - 5:00pmOral Session 13 | Impacts II
Location: Room 604
3:45pm - 5:00pmOral Session 14 | Evaporation II
Location: Room 304
3:45pm - 5:00pmOral Session 15 | Wetting II
Location: Room 204
6:15pmDeparture of coaches for the Gala Dinner
Location: Place de Bronckart, 4000 Liège
7:00pm - 11:30pmGala Dinner
Location: Ferme du Banneway
(Transportation provided from Liège-Guillemins station)
11:30pmCoaches leave to bring participants back to the station
Location: Ferme du Banneway
Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025
8:30am - 9:15amPlenary Speech by Petia M. Vlahovska
Location: Room 604
Dynamics of complex interfaces: biomimetic membranes, charged droplets, and active fluids
9:15am - 10:00amPlenary Speech by Hans-Jürgen Butt
Location: Room 604
Spontaneous charging of sliding water drops
10:00am - 10:45amPoster Pitches Session 3
Location: Room 604
10:45am - 11:15amCoffee Break
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 16 | Electro-Hydrodynamics
Location: Room 604
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 17 | Evaporation III
Location: Room 304
11:15am - 12:15pmOral Session 18 | Wetting III
Location: Room 204
12:15pm - 1:45pmLunch
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
12:15pm - 1:45pmPoster Session 3
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Wei Xiaofeng
Location: Room 604
Satellite Formation in Ligament Breakup: Viscosity and Stretching Effects
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Jacco Snoeijer
Location: Room 304
Soft Condensation
1:45pm - 2:15pmKeynote Speech by Anne Juel
Location: Room 204
Fragmentation via Horizontal Vibration: A Pathway to Scalable Monodisperse Emulsification
2:15pm - 4:00pmOral Session 19 | Wetting IV
Location: Room 604
2:15pm - 4:00pmOral Session 20 | Condensation
Location: Room 304
2:15pm - 4:00pmOral Session 21 | Coalescence & Break-up III
Location: Room 204
4:00pm - 4:30pmGoodbye Coffee
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)

 
 
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