MATTER OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM: ACTIVE AND GLASSY

 I will talk about my recent work on nonequilibrium matter in two different contexts: active systems, in which each particle takes up and dissipates energy and moves in a directed manner, and glassy systems, which are stuck in a disordered metastable state.

About the speaker: Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy obtained his Ph.D. from the 
University of Chicago and was a post-doctoral fellow  in the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a faculty members in IISc, Bangalore. He is a recipient of the Bhatnagar prize for the Physical Sciences, G. D. Birla prize for Science, and J. C. Bose Fellowship. He was recently awarded the Infosys Prize, 2011, in Physical Sciences. His research interests have been in the statistical mechanics and dynamics of soft and biological matter, steady states and nonequilibrium phase transitions in biomembranes, studying sedimentation, rheology, defects and nonequilibrium phase transitions in complex fluids.