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Indian physicist (born 1957)
Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy
FRS
[1] (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 .
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
[6] 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 .
[1]
He was awarded one of the
H K Firodia awards for 2016.
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References
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d Anon (2016).
"Professor Sriram Ramaswamy FRS" . London:
Royal Society . Archived from
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"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies" . Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016 . {{
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Sriram Ramaswamy publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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"Sriram Ramaswamy Homepage" . iisc.ernet.in. Archived from
the original on 4 March 2016.
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"Sriram Ramaswamy CV" (PDF) . Hyderabad: tifrh.res.in. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 12 May 2016.
^ 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 .
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"Professor Sriram Ramaswamy: Physical Sciences, 2011" . infosys-science-foundation.com. Archived from
the original on 22 March 2016.
^ 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.
Bibcode :
2013RvMP...85.1143M .
doi :
10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1143 .
^ Toner, John; Tu, Yuhai; Ramaswamy, Sriram (2005).
"Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks" (PDF) . Annals of Physics . 318 (1): 170–244.
Bibcode :
2005AnPhy.318..170T .
doi :
10.1016/j.aop.2005.04.011 .
^ Kumar, Abhishek; Maitra, Ananyo; Sumit, Madhuresh; Ramaswamy, Sriram; Shivashankar, G. V. (21 January 2014).
"Actomyosin contractility rotates the cell nucleus" . Scientific Reports . 4 (1): 3781.
Bibcode :
2014NatSR...4E3781K .
doi :
10.1038/srep03781 .
ISSN
2045-2322 .
PMC
3896915 .
PMID
24445418 .
^ Ramaswamy, Sriram (2010). "The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics . 1 (1): 323–345.
arXiv :
1004.1933 .
Bibcode :
2010ARCMP...1..323R .
doi :
10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-070909-104101 .
S2CID
55500360 .
^ Narayan, V.; Ramaswamy, S.; Menon, N. (2007). "Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic". Science . 317 (5834): 105–108.
arXiv :
cond-mat/0612020 .
Bibcode :
2007Sci...317..105N .
doi :
10.1126/science.1140414 .
PMID
17615353 .
S2CID
3178657 .
^ 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.
Bibcode :
1985PhRvL..54.1520L .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1520 .
PMID
10031060 .
^ Aditi Simha, R.; Ramaswamy, Sriram (2002). "Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Instabilities in Ordered Suspensions of Self-Propelled Particles". Physical Review Letters . 89 (5): 058101.
arXiv :
cond-mat/0108301 .
Bibcode :
2002PhRvL..89e8101A .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.058101 .
PMID
12144468 .
S2CID
3845736 .
^ Kumar, Nitin; Soni, Harsh; Ramaswamy, Sriram;
Sood, A. K. (2014). "Flocking at a distance in active granular matter". Nature Communications . 5 : 4688.
arXiv :
1402.4262 .
Bibcode :
2014NatCo...5.4688K .
doi :
10.1038/ncomms5688 .
PMID
25181961 .
S2CID
19244108 .
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"Celebrating 22 Years of H. K. Firodia Awards for Excellence in Science & Technology" . H. K. Firodia Memorial Foundation. Archived from
the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2018 .
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