1st European conference on microfluidics

Aim and Scopes

The Microfluidics 2008 Conference (MicroFlu’08) can be considered as the International version of the Microfluidics French Conference held in Toulouse for three editions from 2002 to 2006. The aim of this conference is to strengthen the links inside the European scientific community in this young discipline and to promote exchanges between European Universities and Industrial Companies engaged in this field. Microfluidics finds now applications in every industrial sector, as well as in numerous media covered fields like biology, medicine, chemical and process engineering, transports, environmental sciences, microelectronics and so on. The aim of this Conference is to promote and foster European cooperation in the field of Microfluidics by bringing together scientists and engineers working in this strongly multi-disciplinary area. The Conference invites submission of abstracts describing original works on the listed topics for oral or poster presentations. The papers have to contain information on research rationale, methodology, results and major conclusions. Applied papers from Industries engaged in Microfluidics especially addressed to draw strong scientific needs are welcomed.

Topics of the Conference

The topics of this conference will include the following sessions (other topics related to Microfluidics are welcome):

1) Gas Microflows (Co-chairs Dimitris Valougeorgis & Yonghao Zhang)
2) Liquid Microflows (Co-chairs Juergen Brandner & Michel Favre-Marinet)
3) Two-Phase Flows in Microsystems (Co-chairs Gian Piero Celata & Olivier Lebaigue)
4) Microflows in Bioengineering and Biofluidics (Co-chairs David Newport & Dimos Poulikakos)
5) Microfabrication Techniques for Microfluidic Systems (Co-chairs Anne-Marie Gué & Norbert Kockmann)
6) Lab on a Chip and Miniaturized Chemistry (Co-chairs Nicole Pamme & Petra Schwille)
7) Electrokinetic Microflows (Co-chairs Carolyn Ren & Sedat Tardu)
8) Microdroplets management (Co-chairs Yves Fouillet & Marco Marengo)
9) Fluidic Microactuators and Micromixing (Co-chairs Janko Auerswald & Ibrahim Hassan)
10) Microflow Visualisation and Measurements (Co-chairs Lucien Baldas & Ralph Lindken)

MicroPIV Special Session

Following the PivNet Workshop on MicroPIV and Applications in Microsystems held at TU Delft, the Netherlands, in 2005, a special session on “Microflow Visualisation and Measurement” (Chairs: Profs. Lindken and Baldas) is organised.

The special session on “Microflow Visualisation and Measurement” will present state of the art on Micro Particle Image Velocimetry (MicroPIV), LIF, flow visualisation, and related techniques at micron scale. Emphasis will be given to the development and application of MicroPIV in microsystems. Another topic of the session will be the measurement of scalars such as concentration, temperature and pH-value.

The session will also provide a platform to discuss the current status of flow measurements at micro- and nanoscale.

Themes related to the development of the PIV technique and associated image analysis methods at micro- and nanoscale:

– MicroPIV applications in microsystems

– Instrumentation development

– Measurement of scalars: local concentration, temperature, pH value and others

– Flow visualization in microsystems

– Nanoscale measurement techniques

– Related techniques

– Industrial applications

– Applications in the area of aerospace, life science, pharmaceutical, biological and medical research, DNA analysis, chemical engineering, thermo­dynamics and homeland security.

 

Dates & Venue: December 10-12, Bologna

Find out more: www.microfluidique.insa-toulouse.fr