Biography:Sriram Ramaswamy

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Sriram Ramaswamy

FRS
Professor Sriram Ramaswamy FRS.jpg
Sriram Ramaswamy at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
Born (1957-11-10) 10 November 1957 (age 66)
Alma mater
Awards
  • Infosys Prize
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fieldstheoretical physics
Institutions
  • Indian Institute of Science
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
ThesisSolid like behaviour in liquid layers: a theory of the yield stress in smectics (1983)
Websitephysics.iisc.ernet.in/~sriram

Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy (born 10 November 1957) FRS[1] is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and was on leave (2012–16) as Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad.[2][3][4]

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.[4] He completed his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1983.[5] He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

Research

Ramaswamy is a theoretician whose research investigates nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, condensed matter physics and biological physics.[2] 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.[1]

He is widely known for formulating the hydrodynamic equations[7][8] governing the alignment, flow, mechanics and statistical properties of suspensions of self-propelled creatures, on scales from a cell to the ocean [9].[10] 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.[1][11][12][13][14]

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 in 2011.[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[1]

He was awarded one of the H K Firodia awards for 2016. [15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Anon (2016). "Professor Sriram Ramaswamy FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20160429121447/https://royalsociety.org/people/sriram-ramaswamy-12893/.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/. Retrieved 2016-03-09. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sriram Ramaswamy publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ↑ "Sriram Ramaswamy Homepage". iisc.ernet.in. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002157/http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~sriram/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Sriram Ramaswamy CV". Hyderabad: tifrh.res.in. Archived from the original on 2016-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20160512211423/http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/faculty/srcv.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Ramaswamy, Sriram Rajagopal (1983). Solid like behavior in liquid layers: a theory of the yield stress in smectics (PhD thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 17122087.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Professor Sriram Ramaswamy: Physical Sciences, 2011". infosys-science-foundation.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20160322101432/http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2011/sriram-ramaswamy.asp. 
  7. ↑ Marchetti, M. C.; Joanny, J. F.; Ramaswamy, S.; Liverpool, T. B.; Prost, J.; Rao, Madan; Simha, R. Aditi (2013). "Hydrodynamics of soft active matter". Reviews of Modern Physics 85 (3): 1143–1189. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1143. Bibcode: 2013RvMP...85.1143M. 
  8. ↑ Toner, John; Tu, Yuhai; Ramaswamy, Sriram (2005). "Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks". Annals of Physics 318 (1): 170–244. doi:10.1016/j.aop.2005.04.011. Bibcode: 2005AnPhy.318..170T. 
  9. ↑ Kumar, Abhishek; Maitra, Ananyo; Sumit, Madhuresh; Ramaswamy, Sriram; Shivashankar, G. V. (2014-01-21). "Actomyosin contractility rotates the cell nucleus" (in En). Scientific Reports 4 (1). doi:10.1038/srep03781. ISSN 2045-2322. Bibcode: 2014NatSR...4E3781K. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep03781. 
  10. ↑ Ramaswamy, Sriram (2010). "The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 1 (1): 323–345. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-070909-104101. Bibcode: 2010ARCMP...1..323R. 
  11. ↑ Narayan, V.; Ramaswamy, S.; Menon, N. (2007). "Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic". Science 317 (5834): 105–108. doi:10.1126/science.1140414. Bibcode: 2007Sci...317..105N. 
  12. ↑ Levine, Dov; Lubensky, T. C.; Ostlund, Stellan; Ramaswamy, Sriram; Steinhardt, Paul Joseph; Toner, John (1985). "Elasticity and Dislocations in Pentagonal and Icosahedral Quasicrystals". Physical Review Letters 54 (14): 1520–1523. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1520. PMID 10031060. Bibcode: 1985PhRvL..54.1520L. 
  13. ↑ Aditi Simha, R.; Ramaswamy, Sriram (2002). "Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Instabilities in Ordered Suspensions of Self-Propelled Particles". Physical Review Letters 89 (5): 058101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.058101. PMID 12144468. Bibcode: 2002PhRvL..89e8101A. 
  14. ↑ Kumar, Nitin; Soni, Harsh; Ramaswamy, Sriram; Sood, A. K. (2014). "Flocking at a distance in active granular matter". Nature Communications 5: 4688. doi:10.1038/ncomms5688. PMID 25181961. Bibcode: 2014NatCo...5E4688K. 
  15. ↑ "Celebrating 22 Years of H. K. Firodia Awards for Excellence in Science & Technology". H. K. Firodia Memorial Foundation. http://hkfirodiaawards.org/awards_2.html. Retrieved 1 May 2018. 




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