CURRICULUM VITAE

Sriram Ramaswamy
Professor, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012 INDIA
Phone: +91 (80) 2360 2698 or 2293 3283;
Fax: +91(80) 2360 2602 or 0228
E-mail: sriram@physics.iisc.ernet.in
Home page: http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~sriram
Citizenship: Indian
Marital status: Married, two children
Date of Birth:10 November 1957

Education:
B.S. (Physics, High Honours) Univ. of Maryland, 1977
Ph.D (Physics) Univ. of Chicago, 1983.


Positions held:

1. 26 May 2002 - present: Professor,
2. 26 May 1996 - 25 May 2002: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
3. March 1990 - May 1996: Assistant Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies (upto 30 June 1995) and Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
4. May 1986 - March 1990: UGC Research Scientist A, Physics Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
5. University of Pennsylvania: Postdoctoral Research Investigator Dept. of Physics, Sep. 1983 -May 1986.
   

Additional affiliation:

• Member, Condensed Matter Theory Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
• Adjunct Professor, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore

Summary of visiting positions:

Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, Jan-Feb 2009; Syracuse University (2008) UCSB: (Kavli) Institute for Theoretical Physics (2006, 2002, 1994, 1987); Dept of Materials (1994); International Centre for Materials Research (2006) Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin (2003) ESPCI Paris (research visitor 1989; Chaire Paris Science 2003) ICTP Trieste, Italy (1998) UCLA: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1994). U of Oregon: Dept of Physics and Institute for Theoretical Sciences (1996) Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (1996), IBM Yorktown (1992 and 1984) Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS), Pessac, France (1990) UMass Amherst: Polymer Science & Engineering (1987)

Summary of Research Interests:

Statistical mechanics and dynamics of soft and biological matter: order, fluctuations and rheology of collections of self-driven, active particles (bacterial suspensions, fish schools, motor-microtubule extracts, active gels); the relation between homogeneously driven granular rods and self-propelled particles; Steady states and nonequilibrium phase transitions in biomembranes containing active force centres; statistical mechanics of sedimentation; shear flow and melting of colloidal crystals; dynamics, defect structure, rheology and spatiotemporal chaos in surfactant solutions; moving flux lattices and related systems;

PUBLICATIONS:

Submitted:

• Dynamics of a stiff biopolymer in an actively contractile background: buckling, stiffening and negative dissipation, N Kikuchi, A Ehrlicher, D Koch, J A Kaes, S Ramaswamy, M Rao (arxiv.org/0901.4126) 2008
• Universality Class of the Reversible-Irreversible Transition in Sheared Suspensions, G I Menon, S Ramaswamy (arxiv.org/0801.3881)

Published in refereed journals:

1.

Instabilities and waves in thin films of living fluids, Sumithra Sankararaman and Sriram Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett, in press; (arxiv.org/0809.4918)

2.

Exact solution of a Brownian inchworm model for self-propulsion, A. Baule, K. Vijay Kumar and S. Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P11008

3.

Active elastic dimers: self-propulsion and current reversal on a featureless track, K. Vijay Kumar, S. Ramaswamy and M. Rao, Phys Rev E 77, 020102 R (2008)

4.

Active-filament hydrodynamics: instabilities, boundary conditions and rheology, S. Ramaswamy and M. Rao, New Journal of Physics 9 (2007) 423 (Focus Issue on Physics of the Cytoskeleton).

5.

Perspectives on the mode-coupling approximation for the dynamics of interacting Brownian particles, A. Basu and S. Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P11003.

6.

Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic, V. Narayan, S. Ramaswamy, N. Menon, Science 317 (2007) 105;

7.

Shear-flow-induced isotropic to nematic transition in a suspension of active filaments, S. Muhuri, M. Rao and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys Lett Eurohys Lett 78 (2007) 48002;

8.

Superdiffusion of concentration in wormlike-micelle solutions, Rajesh Ganapathy, A.K. Sood, and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys Lett 77 (2007) 18007.

9.

Active nematics are intrinsically phase-separated, S. Mishra and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 090602;

10.

Brownian-drag induced particle current in a model colloidal system, Moumita Das, S. Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, and G. Ananthakrishna, Phys. Rev. E 73 (2006) 061409

11.

Do current-density nonlinearities cut off the glass transition? M. E. Cates and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 135701.

12.

V. Narayan, N. Menon and S. Ramaswamy, Nonequilibrium steady states in a vibrated-rod monolayer: tetratic, nematic, and smectic correlations, J. Stat. Mech. (2006) P01005.

13.

Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks, J. Toner, Y. Tu and S. Ramaswamy, Ann. Phys. 318 (2005) 170

14.

Routes to spatiotemporal chaos in the rheology of nematogenic fluids, M. Das, B. Chakrabarti, C. Dasgupta, S. Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, Phys Rev E 71 (2005) 021707

15.

Flow-induced current and voltage generation in carbon nanotubes, Shankar Ghosh, A.K. Sood, S. Ramaswamy and N. Kumar, Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 205423

16.

Rheology of active-particle suspensions, Y. Hatwalne, S. Ramaswamy, M. Rao and R. A. Simha, Phys Rev Lett 92 (2004) 118101

17.

Spatiotemporal rheochaos in nematic hydrodynamics B. Chakrabarti, M. Das, C. Dasgupta, S. Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, Phys Rev Lett 92 (2004) 055501

18.

Collective stochastic resonance in shear-induced melting of sliding bilayers Moumita Das, G. Ananthakrishna and S. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 68 (2003) 061402

19.

Active nematics on a substrate: giant number fluctuations and long-time tails, S. Ramaswamy, R.A. Simha and J. Toner, Europhys Lett 62 (2003) 196-202

20.

A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs, S. Das, O. Narayan and S. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E (Rapid Comm.) 66 (2002) 050103

21.

Anomalous heat conduction in one dimensional momentum-conserving systems, O. Narayan and S. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 89 (2002) 200601

22.

Melt-freeze cycles in relatively sheared crystalline layers, M. Das, S. Ramaswamy and G. Ananthakrishna, Europhys Lett 60 (2002) 636-642

23.

Driven Heisenberg magnets: nonequilibrium criticality, spatiotemporal chaos and control, J. Das, M. Rao and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys. Lett. 60 (2002) 418-424

24.

Hydrodynamic fluctuations and instabilities in ordered suspensions of self-propelled particles: living liquid crystals, S. Ramaswamy and R.A. Simha, Phys Rev Lett 89 (2002) 058101.

25.

Theory of suspension segregation in partially filled horizontal rotating cylinders, R. Govindarajan, P.R. Nott and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Fluids (Lett.) 13 (2001) 3517-3520.

26.

The physics of active membranes, S. Ramaswamy and Madan Rao, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris (special issue on Physics at the Scale of the Cell) t. 2, Sér. IV 817-839 (2001).

27.

Issues in the statistical mechanics of steady sedimentation, S. Ramaswamy, Adv. Phys. 50 (2001) 297-341.

28.

Weak and strong dynamic scaling in a one-dimensional driven coupled-field model: Effects of kinematic waves, D. Das, A. Basu, M. Barma and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 64 (2001) 021402

29.

Active membrane fluctuations studied by micropipet aspiration, J-B. Manneville, P. Bassereau, S. Ramaswamy, J. Prost, Phys. Rev. E 64 (2001) 021908

30.

Nonequilibrium noise, steady states, and instabilities in membranes with active proteins, S. Ramaswamy, J. Toner, and J. Prost, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 3494

31.

Strong phase separation in a model for sedimenting lattices, R. Lahiri, S. Ramaswamy and M. Barma, Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) 1648-1658

32.

Inequivalence of ensembles in a driven diffusive system, M. Acharyya, A. Basu, R. Pandit, and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) 1139-1143

33.

Suspensions far from equilibrium, S. Ramaswamy, Current Science 77 (Special Section on Nonequilibrium Statistical Systems), 402-410 (1999).

34.

Travelling waves in a drifting flux lattice, R.A. Simha and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3285 (1999).

35.

Structure and rheology of the defect-gel states of pure and particle-dispersed lyotropic lamellar phases, G. Basappa, Suneel, V. Kumaran, P.R. Nott, S. Ramaswamy, V.M. Naik, and D. Rout, Eur. Phys. Jour. B 12 (1999) 269-276.

36.

Mean magnetic field and noise cross-correlation in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: results from a one-dimensional model, A. Basu, J.K. Bhattacharjee, and S. Ramaswamy, Eur. Phys. Jour. B 9, 725 (1999).

37.

Screened and unscreened phases in sedimenting suspensions, A. Levine, S. Ramaswamy, E. Frey, and R. Bruinsma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5944 (1998).

38.

Are steadily moving crystals unstable? R. Lahiri and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1150 (1997).

39.

Power-law forces between particles in a nematic, S. Ramaswamy, R. Nityananda, V.A. Raghunathan, and J. Prost, Mol. Crys. Liq. Crys. 288, 175 (1996).

40.

Sponge phase transitions from a lattice model, G. I. Menon, R. Pandit and S. Ramaswamy, Mol. Crys. Liq. Crys. 288, 93 (1996).

41.

Anomalous viscous loss in emulsions, A.J. Liu, S. Ramaswamy, H. Gang, T. Mason, and D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3017 (1996).

42.

Nonequilibrium phase transitions in a driven sandpile model, S.K. Dhar, R. Pandit, and S. Ramaswamy, J. Phys. A Lett. 28, L563 (1995).

43.

Shear-induced enhancement of self-diffusion in interacting colloidal suspensions, A.V. Indrani and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E52, 6492 (1995).

44.

Comment on `Noise-induced nonequilibrium phase transition', S. Ramaswamy, R. Pandit and R. Lahiri, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4786 (1995).

45.

Shear-induced melting and reentrance: a model, R. Lahiri and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1043 (1994).

46.

Multiple scattering of light and photon diffusion in nematic liquid crystals, S. Ramaswamy, J. Phys. Chem. 98, 9318 (1994).

47.

Nonlinear effects of membrane fluctuations in the dilute lamellar phase, S. Ramaswamy, J. Prost and T. C. Lubensky, Europhys. Lett. 27, 285 (1994).

48.

Universal diffusion and subdiffusion in colloids at freezing, A.V. Indrani and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 360 (1994).

49.

Novel polarisation dependence in multiple scattering of light from colloidal crystals, S. Sanyal, S. Ramkumar, S. Ramaswamy, N. Kumar and A.K. Sood, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2963 (1994).

50.

Dynamics of lyotropic lamellar phases, S. Ramaswamy, J. Prost and T.C. Lubensky, Europhys. Lett. 23, 271 (1993).

51.

Hydrodynamics of the Renn-Lubensky twist grain boundary phase, and the decoupled lamellar phase, Y. Hatwalne, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2090 (1993).

52.

Search for a thermodynamic basis for the glass transition, C. Dasgupta and S. Ramaswamy, Physica A 186, 314 (1992).

53.

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics of the dilute lamellar phase, S. Ramaswamy, Physica A 186, 154 (1992).

54.

Anomalously rough sandpile models in one dimension: exact decimation results, S. Ramaswamy, H.R. Krishnamurthy and S.K. Dhar, Phys. Rev. A 46, 1875 (1992).

55.

Dynamic structure factor of sponge phases, R. Granek, M.E. Cates, and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys. Lett. 19, 499 (1992).

56.

Phase separation in binary nearly-hard-sphere colloids: evidence for the depletion force, S. Sanyal, N. Easwar, S. Ramaswamy, and A.K. Sood, Europhys. Lett. 18, 107 (1992).

57.

Shear-induced collapse of the dilute lamellar phase, S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 112 (1992).

58.

Is there a growing correlation length near the glass transition? C. Dasgupta, A.V. Indrani, S. Ramaswamy, and M.K. Phani, Europhys. Lett. 15, 307 (1991); Addendum: Europhys. Lett. 15, 467 (1991).

59.

Grain boundary structure in incommensurate smectics: a signature of phasons, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, Europhys. Lett. 15, 185 (1991).

60.

Grain boundary structure: a signature of phasons in incommensurate smectics, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, J. Phys. Condensed Matter 2, SA275 (1990).

61.

Direct tests of the entropic model of quasicrystals, Y. Hatwalne and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 68 (1990).

62.

Dynamics of freely suspended films with surface tension, Y. Marathe, S. Ramaswamy, J. Physique 51, 2143 (1990).

63.

Crumpling and second sound in lamellar phases, T.C. Lubensky, J. Prost, and S. Ramaswamy, J. Physique 51, 933 (1990).

64.

How to see the Burgers vector of a quasicrystal dislocation, Y.V. Hatwalne and S. Ramaswamy, Phil.Mag.Lett. 61, 169 (1990).

65.

Small-angle grain boundaries in quasicrystals, Y.V. Hatwalne, H.R. Krishnamurthy, R. Pandit, and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett 62, 2699 (1989).

66.

Dislocations and grain boundaries in quasicrystals, S. Ramaswamy, Phase Transitions 16, 575 (1989).

67.

Frequency-dependent viscosity of membrane solutions, Y. Marathe and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys. Lett. 8, 581 (1989).

68.

Static and dynamic properties of incommensurate smectic A$_{ic}$ liquid crystals, T.C. Lubensky S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. A 38, 4284 (1988).

69.

Comment on "Gravitomagnetic pole and mass quantisation", S. Ramaswamy and A. Sen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1088 (1986).

70.

Theory of shear-induced melting of colloidal crystals, S. Ramaswamy and S.R. Renn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 945 (1986).

71.

Dislocation motion in quasicrystals and implications for macroscopic properties, T.C. Lubensky, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. B 33, 7715 (1986).

72.

Hydrodynamics of icosahedral quasicrystals, T.C. Lubensky, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. B 32, 7444 (1985).

73.

Elasticity and dislocations in pentagonal and icosahedral quasicrystals, D. Levine, T.C. Lubensky, S. Ostlund, S. Ramaswamy, P.J. Steinhardt and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1520 (1985).

74.

Reply to "Comment on dynamical theories of the liquid-glass transition", S.P. Das, G.F. Mazenko S. Ramaswamy, and J.Toner, Phys. Rev. A 32, 3139 (1985).

75.

Hydrodynamic theory of the glass transition, S.P. Das, G.F. Mazenko, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 118 (1985).

76.

Smectics A and C are always glasses, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 477 (1984).

77.

Solid-like behaviour in liquid layers: A theory of the yield stress in smectics, S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. A 29, 1506 (1984).

78.

Breakdown of conventional hydrodynamics in three-dimensional systems with long-ranged two-dimensional translational order, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. A 28, 3159 (1983).

79.

Breakdown of conventional hydrodynamics for smectic A, hexatic B and cholesteric liquid crystals, G.F. Mazenko, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. A 28, 1618 (1983).

80.

Viscosities diverge as 1/$\omega$ in smectic A liquid crystals, G.F. Mazenko, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 51 (1982).

81.

The linear and nonlinear hydrodynamics of low friction adsorbed systems, S. Ramaswamy and G.F. Mazenko, Phys. Rev. A 26, 1735 (1982).

82.

Dual mass in general relativity, S. Ramaswamy and A. Sen, J. Math. Phys. 22, 2612 (1981).

83.

Particle production by white holes, R.M. Wald and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. D 21, 2736 (1980).

84.

Birkhoff theorem for an R + R$^{2}$ theory of gravity with torsion, S. Ramaswamy and P.B. Yasskin, Phys. Rev. D 19, 2264 (1979).

Invited articles/conference proceedings, chapters in books, and pedagogy:

85.

The mechanics of active matter: Broken-symmetry hydrodynamics of motile particles and granular layers, S. Ramaswamy and R.A. Simha, Sol. Stat. Comm. 139 (2006) 617622

86.

Rheological chaos in wormlike micelles and nematic hydrodynamics M. Das, R. Bandyopadhyay, B. Chakrabarti, C. Dasgupta, S. Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, in Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks, Richard G. Weiss and Pierre Terech (editors), Kluwer, Amsterdam (2006).

87.

Stripes in sheared non-brownian suspensions with a free surface, R. Govindarajan, P.R. Nott and S. Ramaswamy, Proc. Statphys Kolkata 2002 Physica A 318 (2003) 80-84.

88.

Statistical hydrodynamics of ordered suspensions of self-propelled particles: waves, giant number fluctuations and instabilities, R.A. Simha and S. Ramaswamy (Proc. STATPHYS21) Physica A 306 (2002) 262-269.

89.

Phase Diagram of a Two-Species Lattice Model with a Linear Instability, S. Ramaswamy, M. Barma, D. Das, and A. Basu (Proc. Discussion Meeting on Slow Dynamics and Freezing, JNU), Phase Transitions B 75 (2002) 363-375

90.

Steady states of dynamically coupled two-species systems, M. Barma and S. Ramaswamy, Turk. J. Phys. 24 (2000) 235 (Proc. Regl. Conf. Math. Phys.).

91.

Pollen grains, random walks, and Einstein, S. Ramaswamy, Resonance 5 (2000) 16-34.

92.

Steady states and instabilities in active membranes, S. Ramaswamy, J.Toner, and J. Prost, Proc. Raman Research Institute Golden Jubilee Conf. on Liquid Crystals and Other Soft Condensed Matter; Pramana 53 (1999) 237.

93.

Hydrodynamic screening in Stokesian fluidised beds: A. Levine, S. Ramaswamy, E. Frey, and R. Bruinsma, in Structure and Dynamics of Materials in the Mesoscopic Domain (Proc. 4th Royal Society-Unilever Indo-UK Forum in Mat. Sci. and Engg.), Eds. Moti Lal, R.A. Mashelkar, B.D. Kulkarni, V.M. Naik (Imperial College Press and The Royal Society, 1999) pp. 195-206.

94.

The nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of sedimentation: S. Ramaswamy, in Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Eds. M J Adams, R A Mashelkar, J R A Pearson and A R Rennie, Imperial College Press - The Royal Society 1998.

95.

(i) Self-diffusion of colloids at freezing; (ii) Shear-enhanced diffusion in colloids; (iii) Excess dissipation in dense emulsions; three chapters in Dynamical theory of complex fluids (NATO ASI), Ed. T C B McLeish, Kluwer 1997.

96.

The physical properties of entropic quasicrystals: S. Ramaswamy, invited paper in Proc. Indo-US workshop on Interfaces (1989), published by Oxford University Press, 1992.

97.

The nature of dislocation motion in quasicrystals, S. Ramaswamy, Bull. Mat. Sci. 10, 75 (1988).

Invited Conferences and Workshops:

98.

Invited speaker, workshop on Nonequilibrium Physics, Kyoto, 21 July to 14 August 2009.

99.

Invited lecturer, Institut Henri Poincaré, "Physique statistique des systèmes actifs, January 2009.

100.

Invited speaker, Complex Fluids Workshop, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, August 2008.

101.

Invited speaker, International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Adelaide, Australia, August 2008.

102.

Plenary speaker, International Liquid Matter Conference, Lund (Sweden), June 26 - July 1, 2008.

103.

Invited organizer of focus session on self propelled particles, APS March meeting, New Orleans, March 2008.

104.

Invited speaker, Conference on Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Condensed Matter, New Delhi, February 2008

105.

Invited lecturer, Autumn School on Physics of New Materials, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, October 2007.

106.

Invited speaker, International Conference on Advanced Materials of the International Union of Materials Research Societies, Bangalore, 8-13 October 2007.

107.

Invited speaker, Mesoscale modelling for complex fluids and flows, Oxford University, June 2007.

108.

Invited speaker, meeting of the Condensed Matter Division of the American Physical Society, Denver, March 2007.

109.

Invited speaker, ``Assembly, Organization and Propulsion in Complex Systems, to be held 22-24 Feb 2007, IIT Madras.

110.

Invited lecturer, SERC School on Nonlinear Dynamics, Kolkata, 20-21 Dec 2006.

111.

Invited speaker, Third National Symposium on Complex Fluids, 14-15 Dec 2006, IIT Kanpur.

112.

Invited speaker, ``Dynamics of Complex Fluids - Ten Years On'', 2 to 5 Oct 2006, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, Cambridge University, UK

113.

Invited member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, May 2006.

114.

Invited organiser of Workshop on Driven States in Soft and Biological Matter, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 18-28 April 2006.

115.

Invited lecture at India-UK Science Networks workshop, Raman Research Institute, November 2005

116.

Invited lecture at Heraeus Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Continua, Bayreuth, Germany, October 2005.

117.

Invited lecture at Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Plasticity and Related Instabilities, Bangalore, August 2005.

118.

Invited lecture at the Workshop on Frontiers of Soft Condensed Matter, ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory, New Jersey, USA, 18-20 May 2005

119.

Invited lecture at the NBHM Workshop on Hydrodynamics, IISc, Bangalore.

120.

Invited lecturer at the Taiwan Soft Matter Summer School, Yang-ming National Park, Taiwan September 2004.

121.

Invited speaker at the Statphys Satellite meeting on Pattern Formation, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, July 2004.

122.

Invited speaker at the Statphys Satellite meeting on Statistical Physics of Complex Fluids, Zanjan, Iran, June 2004.

123.

Invited lecturer at the the SERC School on Statistical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai, February 2004.

124.

Invited speaker at TP-2003: National Conference on Theoretical Physics in celebration of 50 years of the Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, 21-24 Jan 2003

125.

Invited speaker at the 4th KAIST-UCSB Invitation Workshop on Advanced Materials, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2-5 Nov 2002.

126.

Invited member, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, for the programme on Dynamics of Complex and Macromolecular Fluids, May-June 2002.

127.

Invited lecture at the Indo-Israeli Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, Israel Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, January 2002.

128.

Invited lecture at STATPHYS 21, Cancun, Mexico, July 2001.

129.

Invited lectures at the Discussion Meeting and School on The Physics of Biological Systems, held by the Kumari L A Meera Trust, Mysore, Feb 2001.

130.

Invited lecture at India and Abroad: Research Perspectives and Projections in Condensed Matter Physics, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 2-4 January 2001

131.

Invited lecture on the Statistical Mechanics of Sedimentation, at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 12-17 November 2000.

132.

Popli Memorial lecturer (three invited lectures) at St Stephen's College, Delhi, 6-8 November 2000.

133.

Invited lectures at a workshop on Soft Matter: Physical and Biological Aspects, Australian National University, Canberra, 22-29 October 2000.

134.

Invited lecture at the Unilever CREF Annual Physical Sciences Review, Port Sunlight, UK, 17-19 October 2000.

135.

Invited member and speaker at the Aspen Center for Physics workshop on Stochastic Dynamics of Continuous Media, 19 June to 9 July 2000.

136.

Invited speaker at the Discussion Meeting on Slow Dynamics and Freezing, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 and 10 March 2000.

137.

Invited organiser (along with A K Sood) and lecturer at the Discussion Meeting and School on Soft Condensed Matter, held by the Kumari L A Meera Trust, Mysore, 26 Jan to 2 Feb 2000.

138.

Invited lecture at the Complex Materials Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 22-27 August 1999.

139.

Invited lecture at the 1st Indo-Israeli Symposium on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, New Delhi, January 1999.

140.

Invited lecture at the Raman Research Institute Golden Jubilee Conference on Liquid Crystals and Other Soft Condensed Matter, Bangalore, December 1998.

141.

Invited lecture at the UCSB/JNCASR/IISc Workshop on Materials, Bangalore, November 1998.

142.

Invited lecture at the 5th IUMRS International Conference in Asia, Bangalore, October 1998.

143.

Three invited lectures at a summer school on `Physical Concepts at the scale of the cell', Cargèse, France, July 1998.

144.

Invited organiser of a Spring College on The Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics of Soft Condensed Matter, and an Adriatico Research Conference on Complex Fluids Far From Equilibrium, ICTP, Trieste, 4 May - 12 June 1998.

145.

Invited keynote lecture at the Royal Society - Unilever - IndoUK Forum on `Structure and Dynamics of Materials in the Mesoscopic Domain', Pune, December 1997.

146.

Invited lecture at a workshop on Polymers and Membranes, Kleinmachnow, Germany, September 1996.

147.

Invited lecture at the Conference on the Dynamics of Complex Fluids, a Royal Society - Unilever - IndoUK Forum, Cavendish Laboratory and Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge June 1996.

148.

Invited lectures at the NATO Advanced Study Institute and Workshop on the Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 24 March to 20 April 1996.

149.

Invited lecture at the Solid State Symposium of the Department of Atomic Energy, Calcutta, December 1995.

150.

Workshop on The Physics of Biomembranes, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, August to December 1994.

151.

Gordon Research Conference on Complex Fluids, Irsee, Germany, September-October 1993.

152.

Discussion Meeting on Dynamical Aspects of Fluid Phases, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January 1993.

153.

Aspen Centre for Physics: Membranes workshop, summer 1992.

154.

Statistical Physics of Polymers, Disordered Solids and Glasses, Calcutta Dec 1991 - Jan 1992.

155.

First International Conference on Liquid Matter, Lyon, France 1990.

156.

Nehru Centre Workshop on Complex Fluids, Bangalore 1990.

157.

Indo Soviet Discussion Meeting on Phase Transitions, Bangalore 1990.

158.

Adriatico 25th Anniversary Conference on Quasicrystals at ICTP, Trieste, 1989.

159.

Indo-US Workshop on Interfaces, Bangalore 1989.

160.

Modulated Structures, Polytypes and Quasicrystals, Banaras 1988.

161.

Quasicrystals Workshop, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara 1987.

162.

Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop on Glassy Dynamics, August 1985.

163.

Invited lecture on the Unconventional Hydrodynamics of Anisotropic Materials, at the American Physical Society Meeting, Detroit, March 1984.

164.

Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop on Exotic Ordered Phases, August 1983.

Awards:

165.

J C Bose Fellowship 2007.

166.

G. D. Birla Prize for Science, 2006.

167.

Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Jan 2004.

168.

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences for 2000.

169.

NASI Young Scientist Millenium Award, 2000.

170.

B.M. Birla Memorial Prize for Physics for the year 1996 (announced 1998).

171.

Elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1996.

172.

N.S. Satyamurthy Award for 1988

173.

Elected an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences 1988-1992


Member, Editorial Board of:

174.

Editorial Board of Advances in Physics, since June 2007.

175.

Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, since January 2004.

176.

Member, Advisory Board of Soft Matter since May 2008

Past Editorial Board memberships

177.

Physical Review E

178.

Liquid Crystals

179.

Current Science

180.

Resonance

Current Research Grants:

181.

The Mechanics of Living Matter: project funded by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research, April 2006 to April 2009 (jointly with Y Hatwalne and M Rao, Raman Institute, G I Menon, IMSc Chennai, D Lacoste, ESPCI Paris, and J F Joanny and J Prost, Institut Curie, Paris.

182.

Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, a joint grant from the Department of Science and Technology to 15 members of physics and other departments at IISc (2003-2009).