CURRICULUM VITAE Sriram Ramaswamy http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~sriram/ J C Bose National Fellow 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: [email protected] Citizen of India Married, two children Born 10 November 1957 Education: PhD (Physics) Univ. of Chicago 1983 BS (Physics, High Honours) Univ. of Maryland College Park 1977 All-India Higher Secondary: The Modern School, New Delhi, 1973 Positions held: 1. 26 May 2002-present: Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2. 28 July 2012 - 26 Oct 2016: Senior Professor and Centre Director, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad (and Adjunct Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1 Feb 2017 - 31 Jan 2020) 3. 26 May 1996 - 25 May 2002: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 4. March 1990 - May 1996: Assistant Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies (upto 30 June 1995) and Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 5. May 1986 - March 1990: UGC Research Scientist A, Physics Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 6. University of Pennsylvania: Postdoctoral Research Investigator Dept. of Physics, Sep. 1983 -May 1986. Research Interests: Nonequilibrium, soft-matter and biological physics 1 PUBLICATIONS: Submitted or preprints: • Inversion of vortex flow around active microalgae under strong confine- ment, Debasmita Mondal, Ameya G. Prabhune, Sriram Ramaswamy, Prerna Sharma, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02040 • Active nonreciprocal attraction between motile particles in an elastic medium, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Raushan Kant, Harsh Soni, A.K. Sood, Sriram Ra- maswamy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04860 • Heating leads to liquid-crystal and crystalline order in a two-temperature active fluid of rods, Jayeeta Chattopadhyay, Sindhana Selvi Pannir Siva- jothi, Kaarthik Varma, Sriram Ramaswamy, Chandan Dasgupta, Prabal K. Maiti, https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04571 Published or accepted; refereed journals: 1. Inertia drives a flocking phase transition in viscous active fluids, R Chatterjee, N Rana, R A Simha, P Perlekar, S Ramaswamy, https://arxiv.org/abs/1907. 03492v3, Physical Review X, accepted for publication 2. Layered chiral active matter: beyond odd elasticity, S. J. Kole, G P Alexander, S Ramaswamy and A Maitra, Phys Rev Lett 126, 248001 (2021) (Editor's Sugges- tion) (arXiv:2012.14321) 3. Waves, Algebraic Growth and Clumping in Sedimenting Disk Arrays, R Cha- jwa, N Menon, S Ramaswamy, R Govindarajan, Phys Rev X 10, 041016 (2020), arXiv:2002.04168 4. Phases and excitations of active rod-bead mixtures: simulations and experiments, H. Soni, N. Kumar, J. Nambisan, R. K. Gupta, A. K. Sood and S. Ramaswamy, Soft Matter 16, 7210 (2020), arXiv:2001.00173 5. Nonmutual torques and the unimportance of motility for long-range order in two- dimensional flocks, L P Dadhichi, J Kethapelli, R Chajwa, S Ramaswamy, A Maitra, Phys Rev E 101, 052601 (2020), (arXiv:1912.06581) 6. Active fluids, Nature Reviews Physics 1 (2019) 640-642; invited commentary in the George Gabriel Stokes bicentenary collection on fluid dynamics 7. Omnidirectional transport and navigation of Janus particles through a nematic liquid crystal film, D K Sahu, S Kole, S Ramaswamy, S Dhara, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032009 (2020); arXiv:1908.11168 8. Swimmer suspensions on substrates: anomalous stability and long-range order, A Maitra, P Srivastava, M C Marchetti, S Ramaswamy, M Lenz, Phys Rev Lett 124, 028002 (2020), arXiv:1901.01069 9. Oriented Active Solids, A Maitra, S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 123, 238001 (2019), arXiv:1812.01374 2 10. Pairing, waltzing and scattering of chemotactic active colloids, S Saha, S Ra- maswamy, R Golestanian, New J. Phys. 21 (2019) 063006, arXiv:1901.02485. 11. Kepler orbits of settling discs, R Chajwa, N Menon, S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 122 (2019) 224501, arXiv:1803.10269 12. Stress Fluctuations in Transient Active Networks, D Goldstein, S Ramaswamy, B Chakraborty, Soft Matter 15 (2019) 3520-3526, arXiv:1901.08119 13. Trapping and sorting active rods: motility-induced condensation and smectic de- fects, N Kumar, R K Gupta, H Soni, S Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, Phys Rev E 99 (2019) 032605, arXiv:1803.02278 14. Inferring critical points of ecosystem transitions from spatial data, S Majumder, K Tamma, S Ramaswamy, V Guttal, Ecology 100, e02722 (2019), bioRχiv:187799 15. Origins and diagnostics of the nonequilibrium character of active systems, L P Dadhichi, A Maitra, S Ramaswamy, J Stat Mech (2018) 123201, arXiv:1808.08997 16. Defect unbinding in active nematics, S Shankar, M C Marchetti, S Ramaswamy and M J Bowick, Phys Rev Lett 121, 108002 (2018), arXiv:1804.06350 17. A nonequilibrium force can stabilize 2D active nematics, A Maitra, P Srivastava, M C Marchetti, J Lintuvuori, S Ramaswamy, and M Lenz, PNAS 115 6934{6939 (2018); arXiv:1711.02407 18. The low noise phase of a 2d active nematic, S Shankar, S Ramaswamy, M C Marchetti, Phys Rev E 97 (2018) 012707, Editor's Suggestion, arXiv:1710.05400 19. Active Matter, S Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2017) 054002 20. Hydrodynamic instabilities in active cholesteric liquid crystals C A Whitfield, T C Adhyapak, A Tiribocchi, G P Alexander, D Marenduzzo, and S Ramaswamy, Eur Phys Jour E 40 (2017) 50, arXiv:1701.05022 21. The glass susceptibility: growth kinetics and saturation under shear, S K Nandi, S Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 94, 012607 (2016), arXiv:1309.2389 22. Silent Flocks, A Cavagna, I Giardina, T S Grigera, A Jelic, D Levine, S Ra- maswamy, M Viale, Phys Rev Lett 114, 218101 (2015), Editor's Suggestion, Physics Synopsis, arXiv:1410.2868 23. Anisotropic Isometric Fluctuation Relations in experiment and theory on a self- propelled rod, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A.K. Sood, Phys. Rev. E 91, 030102 (R) (2015); arXiv:1502.04466 24. Active Viscoelastic Matter: from Bacterial Drag Reduction to Turbulent Solids, E. J. Hemingway, A. Maitra, S. Banerjee, M. C. Marchetti, S. Ramaswamy, S. M. Fielding, M. E. Cates, Phys Rev Lett 114, 098302 (2015); arXiv:1410.6077 25. Flocking at a distance in active granular matter, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Nature Communications 5: 4688 doi:10.1038/ncomms5688 (2014); arXiv:1402.4262v2; highlighted in http://tinyurl.com/m3quo2f, http://tinyurl.com/l46stfj, http://tinyurl.com/l6zmzt8 http://tinyurl.com/mjcl862 3 26. Universal power law in crossover from integrability to quantum chaos, R Modak, S Mukerjee, S Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. B 90 (2014) 075152; arXiv:1309.1865. 27. Aspects of the density field in an active nematic, S Mishra, S Puri and S Ra- maswamy, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 372: 20130364 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0364 28. Activating membranes, A Maitra, P Srivastava, M Rao and S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 112 (2014) 258101; arXiv:1311.5055. 29. Clusters, asters and collective oscillations in chemotactic colloids, S Saha, R Golestanian, S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 89 (2014) 062316; arXiv:1309.4947. 30. Nonequilibrium noise in electrophoresis: the microion wind, Suropriya Saha, S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 89 (2014) 032307 31. Actomyosin contractility rotates the cell nucleus, A Kumar, A Maitra, M Sumit, S Ramaswamy, G V Shivashankar, Sci. Rep. 4, 3781; DOI:10.1038/srep03781 (2014); arXiv:1302.6052 32. Phase-Synchronized State of Oriented Active Fluids, S. F¨urthauerand S. Ra- maswamy, arXiv:1307.5705, Phys Rev Lett 111 (2013) 238102 33. Mesoscopic theory for fluctuating active nematics, E Bertin, H Chat´e,F Ginelli, S Mishra, A Peshkov, S Ramaswamy, New J. Phys. 15 (2013) 085032; arXiv:1305.0772 34. The actin cortex as an active wetting layer, J.-F. Joanny, K. Kruse, J. Prost, S. Ramaswamy, arXiv:1302.5025, Eur. Phys. J. E 36 (2013) 52 35. Yielding and large deviations in micellar gels: a model, S K Nandi, B Chakraborty, A K Sood and S Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2013) P02027; arXiv:1210.1987 36. Live Soap: Order, Fluctuations and Instabilities in Active Smectics, T.C. Adhya- pak, S. Ramaswamy, and John Toner, http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2708, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 118102 37. Hydrodynamics of soft active matter, M. C. Marchetti, J.-F. Joanny, S. Ra- maswamy, T. B. Liverpool, J. Prost, M. Rao, R.A. Simha, Rev. Mod. Phys. 85 (2013) 1143-1189, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2929 38. How do glassy domains grow? S.K. Nandi, S. Ramaswamy http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1152, Phys Rev Lett, 109 (2012) 115702 39. A drop of active matter, J.-F. Joanny and S. Ramaswamy, J. Fluid Mech., 705 (2012) 46-57; arXiv:1201.2794. 40. Oscillatory settling in wormlike-micelle solutions: bursts and a long time scale, Nitin Kumar, Sayantan Majumdar, Aditya Sood, Rama Govindarajan, Sriram Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood, Soft Matter 8 (2012) 4310; Hot Paper: http://tinyurl.com/ks2c4g8 41. The mode-coupling glass transition in a fluid confined by a periodic potential: general theory and results in one dimension, S.K. Nandi, S.M. Bhattacharyya, S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 84 (2011) 061501. 4 42. Symmetry Properties of the Large-Deviation Function of the Velocity of a Self- Propelled Polar Particle, Nitin Kumar, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A. K. Sood, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 118001 (Editor's Suggestion) 43. The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter, S Ramaswamy, Annu. Rev. Con- dens. Matt. Phys. 1 (2010) 323-345 (Inaugural Issue) 44. A dynamic renormalization group study of active nematics, S Mishra, R A Simha and S Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P02003 45. 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, PNAS 106 (2009) 19776-19779 46.