3 for the price of 1!

The folks who organize the triennial International Symposium on Food Rheology would like you to be careful with your travel funds in 2012.  Instead of going to the Food Colloid conference in Copenhagen AND the Food Oral Proceesing Conference in Baune (France) AND the Rheology Congress in Lisbon, you can attend their conference in Zurich.

Hello Cleveland!

This year's SOR meeting will be in Cleveland, OH.  Any current or former children of Cleveland who would like to introduce their city to the readers of the blog, send me a note at rheolworldblog -at- gmail.com.  (I did some writeups for Santa Fe last year.)

Poll of the Month (July)

From the last post comes the current poll of the month.  Which is the best basic rheology book?

Jobs Report (July '11)

Keyword searches (rheolog*) conducted on July 3 found 39 jobs on Monster and 15 jobs on Careerbuilder.

The Wisdom of Crowds

A recent discussion at LinkedIn's SOR group asked which introductory rheology book was best.  This was the most popular discussion in recent memory.  People mentioned--

• The Rheology Handbook by T. Mezger (twice)
• Handbook of Elementary Rheology by H. Barnes (twice)
• Rheology: Principles, Measurements, and Applications by C.W. Macosko
• Understanding Rheology by F.A. Morrison
• An Introduction to Rheology by H.A. Barnes, J.F. Hutton, and K. Walters (twice)
• A Practical Approach to Rheology and Rheometry by G. Schramm
  (This book is self-published by ThermoFisher)
• Rheological Methods in Food Processing Engineering by J.F. Steffe and C.R. Daubert (twice)
• Bioprocessing Pipelines: Rheology and Analysis by J.F. Steffe
  (Both the Steffe books are available online for free download.)
• There was a mention of a book by K. Walters; it's either the one co-authored with Barnes listed above or Rheology: An Historical Perspective co-authored with R.I. Tanner