Sriram Ramaswamy Explained

Sriram Ramaswamy
Birth Date:1957 11, df=yes
Field:Theoretical physics
Thesis Title:Solid like behaviour in liquid layers: a theory of the yield stress in smectics
Thesis Url:http://search.proquest.com/docview/303282658/
Thesis Year:1983
Doctoral Students:Moumita Das

Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy (born 10 November 1957) is an Indian physicist. He is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and previously the director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad.[1] [2]

Education

Ramaswamy completed high school at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, and then moved to the University of Maryland where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with high honours in 1977.[2] He completed his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1983.[3] He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research

Ramaswamy is a theoretician whose research investigates nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, condensed matter physics and biological physics. His research helped found the field of active matter, which studies the motility and related collective behaviour of objects that convert local energy input into autonomous motion.

He is widely known for formulating the hydrodynamic equations[4] [5] governing the alignment, flow, mechanics and statistical properties of suspensions of self-propelled creatures, on scales from a cell to the ocean.[6] [7] Key predictions—that macroscopically aligned flocks of swimming bacteria are impossible, and that the addition of swimmers to a fluid can make the viscosity arbitrarily small—have been confirmed in recent experiments. His insight into nonliving imitations of self-propulsion has led to design principles for chemotactic colloids, the first experiments observing giant number fluctuations in flocks, and the creation of flocks with a tiny minority of motile constituents.[8] [9] [10] [11]

Awards and honours

Among the awards he has received for his research are the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2000 and the Infosys Prize for Physical Sciences in 2011.[12] He also served on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[13]

He was awarded one of the H K Firodia awards for 2016.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002157/http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~sriram/. 2016-03-04. Sriram Ramaswamy Homepage. iisc.ernet.in.
  2. Web site: 2016-05-12. Sriram Ramaswamy CV. https://web.archive.org/web/20160512211423/http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/faculty/srcv.pdf. tifrh.res.in. Hyderabad.
  3. PhD . Sriram Rajagopal. Ramaswamy . Solid like behavior in liquid layers: a theory of the yield stress in smectics . University of Chicago . 1983 . 17122087.
  4. Marchetti. M. C.. Joanny. J. F.. Ramaswamy. S.. Liverpool. T. B.. Prost. J.. Rao. Madan. Simha. R. Aditi. Hydrodynamics of soft active matter. Reviews of Modern Physics. 85. 3. 2013. 1143–1189. 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1143. 2013RvMP...85.1143M.
  5. Toner. John. Tu. Yuhai. Ramaswamy. Sriram. Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks. Annals of Physics. 318. 1. 2005. 170–244. 10.1016/j.aop.2005.04.011. 2005AnPhy.318..170T.
  6. Kumar. Abhishek. Maitra. Ananyo. Sumit. Madhuresh. Ramaswamy. Sriram. Shivashankar. G. V.. 2014-01-21. Actomyosin contractility rotates the cell nucleus. Scientific Reports. En. 4. 1. 3781. 10.1038/srep03781. 24445418. 3896915. 2045-2322. 2014NatSR...4E3781K.
  7. Ramaswamy. Sriram. The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 1. 1. 2010. 323–345. 1004.1933. 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-070909-104101. 2010ARCMP...1..323R. 55500360 .
  8. Narayan. V.. Ramaswamy. S.. Menon. N.. Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic. Science. 317. 5834. 2007. 105–108. cond-mat/0612020. 10.1126/science.1140414. 17615353. 2007Sci...317..105N. 3178657 .
  9. Levine. Dov. Lubensky. T. C.. Ostlund. Stellan. Ramaswamy. Sriram. Steinhardt. Paul Joseph. Toner. John. Elasticity and Dislocations in Pentagonal and Icosahedral Quasicrystals. Physical Review Letters. 54. 14. 1985. 1520–1523. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1520. 10031060. 1985PhRvL..54.1520L.
  10. Aditi Simha. R.. Ramaswamy. Sriram. Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Instabilities in Ordered Suspensions of Self-Propelled Particles. Physical Review Letters. 89. 5. 2002. cond-mat/0108301. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.058101. 12144468. 058101. 2002PhRvL..89e8101A. 3845736 .
  11. Kumar. Nitin. Soni. Harsh. Ramaswamy. Sriram. Sood. A. K.. Ajay K. Sood. Flocking at a distance in active granular matter. Nature Communications. 5. 2014. 4688. 1402.4262. 10.1038/ncomms5688. 25181961. 2014NatCo...5.4688K. 19244108 .
  12. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160322101432/http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2011/sriram-ramaswamy.asp. 2016-03-22. Professor Sriram Ramaswamy: Physical Sciences, 2011. infosys-science-foundation.com.
  13. Web site: Professor Sriram Ramaswamy FRS . . 2016-04-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160429121447/https://royalsociety.org/people/sriram-ramaswamy-12893/ . London . Anon . 2016 . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
  14. Web site: Celebrating 22 Years of H. K. Firodia Awards for Excellence in Science & Technology. H. K. Firodia Memorial Foundation. 1 May 2018. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234211/http://hkfirodiaawards.org/awards_2.html. dead.

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