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Report	M. Kröger, P. Moldenaers Rheology and microstructure of complex fluid systems Appl. Rheol. 15 (2005) 46-47
On 22 September 2004, Leuven/Belgium, the Laboratory of Applied Rheology and Polymer Processing of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Belgian Group of Rheology jointly organized a symposium 'Rheology and Microstructure of Complex Fluids' in honour of Jan Mewis, on the occasion of his retirement. The meeting at Arenbergkasteel/Leuven brought together distinguished colleagues and friends of Jan Mewis, and was locally organized by Paula Moldenaers, Jan Vermant, and Peter Van Puyvelde. Before the academic career of Jan Mewis will be reviewed below, and a laudatio was given at the meeting, the multi-disciplinary auditorium was introduced to the field by former coworkers of Jan Mewis. It was Hans Martin Laun (Ludwigshafen) who opened the symposium with a remarkable speach about 'flow-induced crystallization of polybutene-1 samples with regard to processing'. Morton Denn (New York) followed up by informing about his insight into blends with a liquid crystalline dispersed phase. Giuseppe Marrucci (Naples) was certainly convincing the auditorium about the charm and challenges of associating polymer rheology, and Arthur Metzner (Delaware) gave an interesting comment on the early work on turbulent drag reduction. Actually, Art was not in Leuven, but he gave his lecture over the phone, while his presentation was being projected (it worked surprisingly well).