Sriram Ramaswamy
IISc, Bengaluru
Sriram Ramaswamy is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Physics of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1983. His research areas are non-equilibrium, soft-matter, and biological physics, with a particular interest in Active Matter. He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1996.
Session 1A: Special Lecture
Chandan Dasgupta
The strange physics of self-driven particles
My talk, aimed at a broad scientific audience, will focus on the collective behaviour of entities that continually turn a supply of free energy into work. I will summarise prehistory and classic results, emphasise the connection to living systems, and present our recent findings from theory and simulations, as well as experiments on artificial realisations. I will highlight the importance of non-mutual interactions, and close by discussing long-term challenges.