I am a theoretician working on nonequilibrium, soft matter, and (maybe) biological physics. I am especially interested in Active Matter, which aims to draw living systems, with their unique properties, into the condensed matter fold. Any system that carries out sustained conversion of chemical or other energy into movement qualifies, and some of my favourite active matter is non-living. I am also interested in other kinds of strongly driven many-body systems, such as collectively sedimenting particles, and magnets far from equilibrium.
[5] Clusters, asters and collective oscillations in chemotactic colloids, S Saha, R Golestanian and S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 89, 062316 (2014).
[4] Flocking at a distance in active granular matter, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Nat. Comms 5, 4688 (2014).
[3] Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic, V. Narayan, S. Ramaswamy, N. Menon, Science 317, 105 (2007).
[2] Hydrodynamic fluctuations and instabilities in ordered suspensions of self-propelled particles, R A Simha and S. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 89, 058101 (2002).
[1] Are steadily moving crystals unstable? R. Lahiri and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1150 (1997).