Nordic Rheology Conference
DRG Symposium, Berlin, June 10-12, 2025

The conference is jointly organised by NRS and DRG (Deutsche Rheologische Gesellschaft) and will cover all aspects and areas of rheology. Industrial case studies and academic research papers are equally welcome. The aim is to gather rheologists and enhance the exchange of knowledge between researchers, users, application specialists and instrumentation manufacturers in the Nordic countries, Germany and beyond.

Berlin, at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) ”Unter den Eichen” .

The program will include a mixture of plenary lectures by internationally renowned invited lecturers and contributions from NRS and DRG delegates. The topics will cover all aspects of rheology, both theory and application. There will also be a poster presentation and an exhibition by leading industrial partners. The Annual Business Meetings of NRS and DRG will be held in connection with the conference program.

In connection with the conference, on Tuesday morning June 10th, a rheology course will be given. It will introduce the basics of rheology and facilitate the understanding of more complicated topics discussed during the conference. Attendees at all levels are encouraged to join the course.

The conference will include evening activities on Tuesday and Wednesday.

• Tuesday June 10
  A reception in the evening.
  Refreshments will be served. The conference badge will grant entrance.
  
  
• Wednesday June 11
  Conference banquet in the evening.

Abstract submission
Presentations in all areas of rheology are welcome, both as oral and poster presentations. Presenters should submit a max one-page abstract to the Editorial office by January 15, 2025. Further instructions will be posted during the autumn of 2024. The abstracts will be compiled into a Book of abstracts available for all participants.

Paper submission
After acceptance, participants will be invited to submit a manuscript for publication in the Annual Transactions of the Nordic Rheology Society (ATNRS). The full manuscripts for both posters and oral presentations will be published in the 33rd volume of the ATNRS.

Manuscripts of both oral presentations and posters must be prepared using the ATNRS Template and submitted both as a DOC file and a PDF file to the NRS AT Editor with the subject line ‘NRC2025-manuscript’.

The manuscripts must be between 2-8 pages in length. Make sure that you use “press quality”, embed all the fonts, and set the paper size to A4 when you convert the document to PDF. If the guidelines are not followed exactly, your paper will be returned to you for correction.

LaTeX and iWork Pages are also available, please contact the NRS AT Editor.

The ATNRS does not retain copyrights for the submitted manuscripts.

Conference registration is made online and will open during autumn 2024. The tentative conference fees below include presentations, conference banquet, lunches and coffees.

	NRS/DRG member		Non-member
Regular	350 EUR		450 EUR
MSC and PhD Students	250 EUR		350 EUR
Accompanying person	140 EUR		140 EUR
Rheology course	50 EUR		50 EUR

For NRS membership, the discount applies only to those who are members 2024 and has a membership paid covering June 2025.

The conference will include an exhibition of rheometers and other relevant instrumentation. The venue only has room for five exhibitors so if you are interested please contact the organiser Professor Ulrich Handge.

Students are encouraged to apply for the NRS Student Travel Grant. Please send a one-page stating type of studies, title of contribution to the conference and a motivation, complete with the supervisor’s signature, to the NRS President Olli-Ville Laukkanen before February 15.

The conference venue at BAM ”Unter den Eichen” is located 12 km (40 min by municipal transport) from Berlin Central Train Station, and 25 km (1 hour by municipal transport) from Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

The conference is organised jointly by DRG (Ulrich Handge ) and NRS (Olli-Ville Laukkanen, Mats Stading and Roland Kádár).