News

June 2018

Ghata wins the 2018 NAMF student award! Congratulations Ghata!

May 2018

Sachin presents his short time interfacial tension work at the AOCS annual meeting in Minneapolis.

March 2018

Suraj presents his work at the APS March meeting in Los Angeles.
Suraj receives the Faculty Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations Suraj!

December 2017

Jayant is hired by Hatch. Congratulations Jayant!

October 2017

Ghata presents her work at the AIChE conference in Minneapolis.
Sachin presents his work at the CSChE conference in Edmonton.
Sourojeet arrives for graduate studies after a wrestle with Canadian immigration.

September 2017

Sadaf, Surya and Yuan-Kai arrive for graduate studies. Welcome!
Yang gets a post-doctoral position at the Utrecht in Netherlands. Congratulations Yang!

July 2017

Yang's paper on a microfluidic fabrication method for studying occlusive clots for is accepted for publication in Biomedical Microdevices (Link to article). Congratulations Yang!

May 2017

Alexander, Chang, Ling, Rui, Sargol, Shankavi, Srishti join the lab for summer work. Welcome!
Sachin receives the Ralph-Potts Memorial Award at the AOCS! Congratulations Sachin!

February 2017

Thomas Leary's manuscript on the effect of rapid dissolution of bubbles or drops on the hydrodynamics of segmented flow is accepted for publication in Soft Matter. Congratulations Thomas!

January 2017

Sachin's manuscript on the suppression of coalescence in yield stress fluids is accepted for publication and appears in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. (Link to article). Congratulations Sachin!

November 2016

Ghata and Sachin make presentations at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting at Portland, Oregon.

August 2016

Ghata's paper on axial dispersion of solutes in suspension flows is published as a cover article in Soft Matter. (Link to article). Congratulations Ghata!
Prof. Ramchandran receives funding from the Canadian Lung Association and Ontario Thoracic Society.
Sachin Goel and Prof. Ramchandran give presentations at the ICTAM meeting in Montreal.

June 2016

Sachin Goel, Suraj Borkar and Prof. Ramchandran make presentations at the ACS Colloids Symposium at Harvard University, Boston.
Prof. Ramchandran makes presentations at the CAP congress in Ottawa and the NAMF conference in Quebec city.

April 2016

Sachin Goel's first manuscript is accepted for publication by Physics of Fluids. Congratulations Sachin! (Link to article)
Rohit Sonthalia's paper on tip streaming in water-in-bitumen emulsions is accepted for publication by Fuel. Congratulations Rohit! (Link to article)

December 2015

Prof. Ramchandran gives an invited talk at IUTAM symposium in University of Florida at Gainesville.

November 2015

Yang publishes his work in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal. Congratulations Yang!
Suraj makes an oral presentation at the APS-DFD meeting at Boston.

October 2015

Thomas and Yang present their work at the CSChE meeting at Calgary.
Suraj presents a poster at the SOR meeting at Baltimore.

September 2015

Jayant Borana, Rajesh Ranjan and Shadman Zaman arrive for graduate studies!

August 2015

Alex and Raffi present their work at the UNERD symposium. Raffi's poster presentation wins the first prize. Congratulations Raffi!

July 2015

Prof. Ramchandran gives an invited talk at IIT Chennai, based on Ghata Nirmal's work.

June 2015

Thomas Leary and Sachin Goel present posters at the ACS symposium in Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh.

May 2015

Shashi Malladi presents at the AOCS Annual meeting at Orlando, Florida.

March 2015

Prof. Ramchandran publishes with the Israelachvili group on QCM studies of the conformation of Myelin Basic Protein molecules on silica surface.

January 2015

Rohit publishes his first paper on the mathematical modeling of drug release from gels. Congratulations Rohit!

November 2014

Shashi Malladi and Rohit Sonthalia successfully defend their MASc Theses. Congratulations, Shashi and Rohit!

October 2014

Prof. Ramchandran gives an invited talk at Rutgers University.

September 2014

Sachin Goel, Dinesh Kumar and Ghata Nirmal arrive for post-graduate studies at the Laboratory of Complex Fluids. Welcome!
Cover article in Langmuir! (Link to article)

August 2014

Jenny, Karim and Julien present their work at the UNERD symposium. Jenny's poster presentation wins the second prize. Congratulations Jenny!

July 2014

Prof. Ramachandran delivers a talk at the IUTAM symposium - 'Dynacaps' held in Compiegne, France.

June 2014

Prof. Ramachandran gives an invited talk at the Canadian Association of Physics Congress in Sudbury, Ontario.
Prof. Ramachandran delivers a plenary at the United States National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Michigan State University.
Prof. Ramachandran gives an invited talk at the North American Mixing Forum conference at Lake George, New York.

May 2014

Prof. Ramachandran receives funding from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation under the Early Researcher Award Program, Round 9.
Rohit Sonthalia gives a talk at the American Oil Chemists' Society conference at San Antonio, Texas.
Abdelkrim Bounekhla and Julien Boukhaled begin summer research.

April 2014

Dinesh Kumar, Sachin Goel and Nirmal Ghata will join the Laboratory of Complex Fluids in September as graduate students!

February 2014

Dr. Thomas Leary joins the Laboratory of Complex Fluids as its first post-doctoral researcher. Welcome Thomas!

January 2014

Suraj Borkar successfully bypasses to the Ph.D. program. Congratulations Suraj!

November 2013

Prof. Ramchandran gives two talks at the AIChE meeting in San Francisco, California.

October 2013

Prof. Ramchandran gives a talk at the Society of Rheology meeting at Montreal, Canada.

August 2013

Prof. Ramchandran gives an invited talk at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India.
Ali defends his masters thesis successfully. Congratulations to him for being the first to graduate from the Laboratory of Complex fluids at University of Toronto!
Jerry Fung and Kyle Fortoloczky present their summer research at the Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD). Jerry is the runner-up in Poster Section F: Process Engineering. Congratulations Jerry!

July 2013

Prof. Ramchandran gives a talk at the Society of Engineering Science conference at Brown, Rhode Island.

April 2013

Prof. Ramchandran presents a poster at the AOCS meeting in Montreal.
Prof. Ramchandran's application for the AOCS Junior Faculty Travel Grant is approved.
Prof. Ramchandran gives an invited talk at University of Kansas, Lawrence.

March 2013

Prof. Ramchandran's application to the North American Mixing Forum Early Career Excellence in Mixing award is approved for funding.
Vijai Kasthuri Rangan consents to joining the group in Fall as a grad student. Welcome Vijai!

February 2013

Prof. Ramachandran presents a poster at the Biophysical Society annual meeting in Philadelphia, based on Ali's work.

November 2012

Prof. Ramachandran makes a presentation at the APS-DFD meeting in San Diego, California.
Yang Li successfully defends his Ph.D. candidacy. Congratulations Yang!
The manuscript demonstrating secondary currents in suspension flows is accepted for publication in PRL (Impact factor:7). Congratulations Adam!

October 2012

Prof. Ramachandran makes oral and poster presentations at the AIChE meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

September 2012

Graduate students Shashi Malladi, Suraj Borkar and Rohit Sonthalia join the Laboratory of Complex fluids.

August 2012

Prof. Ramachandran makes a presentation at the International Congress of Rheology in Lisbon, Portugal.

June 2012

Prof. Ramachandran's application to the ACS Petroleum Research Fund - New Directions Grant program is approved for funding.

May 2012

Hussein Warfa and Braginan Vakeesan begin summer research.

April 2012

Prof. Ramachandran's Connaught New Researcher Grant Application NSERC Discovery grant application is successful.
Prof. Ramachandran's NSERC Discovery grant is approved for funding.

March 2012

Prof. Ramachandran makes a presentation at the APS meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

January 2012

Prof. Ramachandran makes a presentation at the by-invitation-only IUTAM conference at Bengaluru, India.

October 2011

Prof. Ramachandran makes a presentation at the Society of Rheology meeting at Cleveland, Ohio.

September 2011

Ali Hussain Motagamwala and Yang Li begin graduate research.
The work on the effect of slip on drop deformation, relaxation and breakup is accepted for publication in Journal of Rheology.

August 2011

Adam Zrehen presents his summer work at the UNerd symposium in the University of Toronto.
The Laboratory of Complex Fluids receives approval for funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation under the Leaders Opportunity Fund program. News Link

July 2011

Prof. Ramachandran gives an invited talk at the 'Complex Flows in Nature and Industry' meeting at Vancouver, BC.

June 2011

Noemie De Vuyst begins summer research.
Prof. Ramachandran attends the ACS Colloids meeting at Montreal.
Check out some commentary on some of the latest work on myelin lipids in PNAS: Science Daily

May 2011

Ali Hussain Motagamwala joins the group.
Saba Khan, Cathy Shi and Adam Zrehen begin summer research.

April 2011

Yang Li joins the group. He will be a joint student with Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva in Chemistry.

March 2011

Saurabh Khemka joins the research group.



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