A downloadable version of the Droplets 2019 programme can be found here.
The complete book of abstracts for oral presentations can be downloaded here.
The complete book of abstracts for poster presentations can be downloaded here for Monday and Tuesday.

To access the abstracts for individual talks, please click the respective talk titles in the programme below.

Sunday, 15 September
Monday, 16 September
Tuesday, 17 September
Wednesday, 18 September

Sunday, 15 September
18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception
(Registration 17:30-19:30)
Oriental Museum

Monday, 16 September
8:00-17:00Registration
Foyer of Calman Learning Centre
8:30-9:30 Plenary PL1: Sigurdur Thoroddsen
Drop impacts: high-speed imaging of splashing and air entrapment
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
9:30-10:00Poster Pitches I
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
10:00-10:30Coffee/Tea
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Textured, Patterned, Smart Surfaces I
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Emulsions and Multiphase Flow I
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Coalescence and Break-up I
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
10:30-11:00Keynote K1: Eric Dufresne
Elastic ripening and inhibition of condensation of droplets in gels
Keynote K2: Vivek Ranade
Cavitation for emulsions
Keynote K3: Osman Basaran
High-accuracy simulation of free surface flows near finite-time singularities
11:00-11:20O1: Etienne Barthel
How triple line pinning affects wetting on textured surfaces
O5: Yanshen Li
Controlled solvent exchange in a porous material: experiment & theory
O9: Michiel Hack
Self-similar coalescence of liquid lenses
11:20-11:40O2: Halim Kusumaatmaja
Modelling drop dynamics on liquid infused surfaces
O6: Ken Yamamoto
Droplet-actuated microchannel mixer
O10: Hosein Sadafi
Attraction of sessile drops of the same pure volatile liquid
11:40-12:00O3: Gary Wells
Self-propelled droplet transport on shaped-liquid surfaces
O7: Dominique Legendre
The Basset-Boussinesq history force acting on a spherical drop
O11: Lisong Yang
Long-range interaction of two pL- sessile droplets on a solid
12:00-12:20O4: Matheu Broom
Symmetry splitting of impacting droplets on partly wetting surfaces
O8: Mariano Galvagno
Hydrodynamic-colloidal interactions of an oil droplet and a membrane surface
O12: Sreehari Perumanath
Molecular events kick-off droplet Coalescence
12:20-14:00Lunch and Poster Session I
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Evaporation I
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Impact I
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Microfluidics and Acoustofluidics I
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
14:00-14:30Keynote K4: Khellil Sefiane
Evaporation of nano-suspension drops on soft and structured substrates
Keynote K5: Doris Vollmer
Drop impact on superamphiphobic surfaces
Keynote K6: Stephen Evans
Lipid coated droplets: from bubbles to cells – therapy to diagnostics
14:30-14:50O13: Daniel Bonn
Spreading dynamics and contact angle of completely wetting volatile drops
O16: Frieder Mugele
Drop impact-based energy harvesting using charged hydrophobic polymer surfaces
O19: Richard Fu
Thin film acoustofluidics: a new platform for Lab-on-a-Chip
14:50-15:10O14: Gabriel Corkidi
3D particle tracking in sessile evaporating water droplets
O17: Timothée Mouterde
Two recipes for repelling hot water
O20: Steffan Hardt
Reciprocating motion of femtoliter droplets between two liquid interfaces
15:10-15:30O15: Fouzia Ouali
Density‐driven flows in evaporating binary liquid droplets
O18: Tristan Gilet
Liquid break-up upon drop impact near the edge of an inclined substrate
O21: Utsab Banerjee
Transport of aqueous droplet over oil based ferrofluid spikes in presence of a magnetic field
15:30-16:00Coffee/Tea
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Evaporation II
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Aerosols I
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Wetting I
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
Special Session to mark the 50th Anniversary of Molecular Kinetic Theory
16:00-16:30Keynote K7: Peter Kelly-Zion
Measured vapor distribution and the diffusive, convective, and velocity fields of an evaporating sessile methanol drop
Keynote K8: Toni Carruthers
Responding to humidity: Measuring the hygroscopicity of large molecule microdroplets
Keynote K9: Terry Blake
50 years in search of the dynamic contact angle
16:30-16:50O22: Giorgio Volpe
Vapour point-source control and manipulation of evaporating droplets
O25: Bryan Bzdek
Surface tensions of picoliter droplets with sub-millisecond surface age
O28: Hans-Jürgen Butt
Adaptive wetting
16:50-17:10O23: Benjamin Sobac
The underside of a Leidenfrost drop on a bath
O26: Jun-ya Kohno
Temporal evolution of multi-order stimulated Raman scattering in droplet
O29: Alex Lukyanov
Crossover of dynamic wetting regimes: a molecular dynamics study
17:10-17:30O24: Jack Goodall
Particle migration in Inkjet-printed droplets
O27: Avshalom Offner
Concentration-driven acoustic instability in aerosols
O30: Glen McHale
Controlling bubbles with electric fields
19:00Conference Dinner
Durham Castle

Tuesday, 17 September
8:00-17:00Registration
Foyer of Calman Learning Centre
8:30-9:30Plenary PL2: Ruth Signorell
Photoemission from charged droplets
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
9:30-10:00Poster Pitches II
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
10:00-10:30Coffee/Tea
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Liquid Crystals and Complex Fluids
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Aerosols II
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Inkjet Printing
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
10:30-11:00Keynote K10: Linda Hirst
Forming hollow nanoparticle microstructures via double nematic nucleation
Keynote K11: Kevin Wilson
Atmospheric droplets: the role of interfacial chemistry in cloud droplet formation and hygroscopic growth of aerosols
Keynote K12: Philip Bentley
Why digital?
11:00-11:20O31: Tapati Dutta
Role of pH and substrate on drying patterns of Laponite droplet
O33: Adam Milsom
Acid-soap complexes in levitated atmospheric aerosol proxies: humidity and ozone response
O37: Christian Diddens
Numerical simulations of inkjet printing processes
11:20-11:40O32: Ralf Stannarius
Embedding, rebound and tunneling of liquid droplets impacting onto freely suspended fluid films
O34: Alexander Shchekin
The disjoining pressure in a droplet on a spherical solid particle: DFT results
O38: Jun Fukai
Deforming free surface of solution dried on a substrate with circle‐patterned bank structure: numerical study
11:40-12:00Keynote K13: Christian Ligoure
(11:40-12:10)

Biextensional viscosity and non stationary elastocapillarity effects in the impact of viscoelastic drops
O35: Michael Cotterell
Aerosol optical properties during the formation of brown carbon aerosol
O39: Ruben van Gaalen
The effect of a precursor film on evaporating inkjet droplets with surfactants
12:00-12:20O36: Flo Gregson
Crystalline vs. Amorphous: predicting and controlling particle formation in rapidly evaporating aerosol microdroplets
O40: Evangelia Antonopoulou
Surfactants and jetting behaviour in inkjet printing
12:20-14:00Lunch and Poster Session II
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Wetting II
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Impact II
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Coalescence and Break up II
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
14:00-14:30Keynote K14: Maja Vuckovac
Scanning droplet adhesion microscopy for surface wetting characterisation
Keynote K15: Alidad Amirfazli
Drop impact onto a surface covered with a thin film
Keynote K16: Dag Hanstorp
Optical levitation of liquid droplets
14:30-14:50O41: Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar
Droplet electrowetting in a wedge geometry
O44: Kirsten Harth
Wetting dynamics and the Leidenfrost transition of liquid drops impacting on a hot plate
O47: Karrar Al-Dirawi
The roles of droplet size and viscosity in binary droplet collisions
14:50-15:10O42: Nikos Savva
Droplet dynamics on rough surfaces
O45: David Brutin
Influence of substrate roughness on blood drop impact stains
O48: Stefan Kooij
Sprays from droplets impacting a mesh
15:10-15:30O43: Binyu Zhao
Morphology and mechanical properties of liquid-air interfaces confined by nonwetting nanopores
O46: Matthew Moore
Using Wagner theory to predict early-time jet properties in liquid-liquid impact problems
O49: Yoshiyuki Tagawa
Levitating droplet over a moving wall: mechanism and position control
15:30-16:00Coffee/Tea
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Textured, Patterned, Smart Surfaces II
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Modelling across Time and Length Scales I
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Evaporation III
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
16:00-16:30Keynote K17: David Quéré
Texture-induced mobility of (tiny) droplets on hydrophobic materials
Keynote K18: Rama Govindarajan
Droplet growth and collisions due to turbulence and gravity
Keynote K19: Tatiana Gambarayan-Roisman
Evaporation of colloidal drops and formation of coffee rings on porous substrates
16:30-16:50O50: Paticia Weisensee
Capillary‐induced droplet mobility during condensation on thin lubricant films
O53: Radu Cimpeanu
Filling the gap in bouncing dynamics
O56: Alvaro Marin
Interfacial particle accumulation in the drying-teardrop effect
16:50-17:10O51: Ehud Yariv
The speed of rolling droplets
O54: Martin Brinkmann
Dewetting of polymer microdroplets with strong slip
O57: Qiu-Sheng Liu
Evaporation processes of sessile droplet and liquid film: research from the ground to space
17:10-17:30O52: John McCarthy
Droplet dynamics on conical substrates
O55: Elfego Ruiz-Gutiérrez
A lattice-Boltzmann model of electrocapillarity
O58: Stephen Wilson
Competitive evaporation of multiple droplets
18:00-20:00Durham Tour

Wednesday, 18 September
8:45-9:00Announcement of Droplets 2021
9:00-10:00Plenary PL3: Omar Matar
Droplet generation via bursting, impacting, and jetting, with surfactants
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
10:00-10:30Coffee/Tea
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
Modelling across Time and Length Scales II
(Special session in memory of Jason Reese)
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Emulsions and Multiphase Flow II
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Microfluidics and Acoustofluidics II
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
10:30-11:00Keynote K20: Matthew Borg
Multiscale flow engineering: re-imagining fluid dynamics modelling
Keynote K21: Panagiota Angeli
Drop coalescence with liquid-liquid interface in the presence of surfactants
Keynote K22: Jon Cooper
Manipulating droplets with shaped acoustic fields – applications in medical diagnostics and drug delivery
11:00-11:20O59: Chengxi Zhao
Interface dynamics of nano-filaments
O62: Yutaku Kita
Thermocapillary-driven flows in pure water drops on a local hot-spot
O65: Jennifer Dodoo
Controlled shaping of sessile magnetic droplets
11:20-11:40O60: Edward Smith
A decomposition of droplet simulation using molecular dynamics
O63: Linzi Dodd
Droplet propulsion and direction control on a planar surface using a selective Leidenfrost effect
O66: Jamal Yagoobi
Separation of vapor from liquid in electrically driven liquid film flow boiling
11:40-12:00O61: Stefan Zitz
A new lattice Boltzmann approach to thin film hydrodynamics
O64: Kai Luo
Quantized effective viscosity of dense monodisperse emulsions in microchannels
O67: Kyle Baldwin
Self-propelling droplet shells stabilized by liquid crystal topology
12:00-13:00Lunch
ES228-231, Earth Science Building
13:00-14:00Plenary PL4: Detlef Lohse
Segregation in multicomponent droplet evaporation
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Evaporation IV
Arnold Wolfendale Lecture Theatre
Impact III
Ken Wade Lecture Theatre
Wetting III
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre
14:00-14:20O68: Teresa Colosimo
Evaporation of a single droplet in a circular well
O71: Fei Duan
Crown-to-splash transition of impinging high-frequency ethanol droplet train on heated surface
O74: David Seveno
Wetting dynamics and adhesion of thermoplastic polymers on glass
14:20-14:40O69: Moshin Qazi
Self-amplifying crystallization in thin liquid films
O72: Loic Tadrist
Where `unpredictability’ shades off : the tunnelling of bouncing droplets
O75: Alex Bradley
Wettability-independent droplet transport by bendotaxis
14:40-15:00O70: Dieter Baumgartner
Spreading and contracting three-component droplets
O73: Kenneth Langley
Air entrapment during the impact of viscous drops onto thin viscous films
O76: Matthew Kitching
An autonomous liquid on solid droplet reactor system for chemical synthesis
Close of Conference