Katepalli R. Sreenivasan: Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitæ of Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Academic Degrees

1968, B.E. (Mech. Engg.), Bangalore University (first rank, with Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Prize and Indumati Lalbai Memorial Gold Medal; the Institution of Engineers Prize and its Honorary Graduate Membership awarded for achieving the first place in all branches of engineering for all three universities in the State of Karnataka)
1970, M.E. (Aero. Engg.), Indian Institute of Science (J.R.D. Tata Fellowship; first rank)
1975, Ph.D. (Aero. Engg.), Indian Institute of Science (P.S. Narayana Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in Mechanical Sciences)
1985, M.A. (Privatim), Yale University
2006, D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Lucknow University, India
2007, D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), University of Hyderabad, India
2008, D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Employment history

(a) Research appointments

1975-77, Post-doctoral Fellow, Universities of Sydney and Newcastle, Australia
1977-79, Research Associate and Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University

(b) At Yale University (until December 2001)

1979-1982, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Applied Science
1982-1985, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
1985-1988, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
1988-2002, Harold W. Cheel Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1991-1996, Andrew W. Mellon Professor
1989-2002, Professor of Physics
1993-2002, Professor of Applied Physics
2000-2002, Professor of Mathematics
1995-2000, Member, Center for Computational Ecology
1987-1992, Chairman, Mechanical Engineering Department
1989, Acting Chairman, Council of Engineering (equivalent, in a previous form, to the Faculty of Engineering, consisting of the Departments of Applied Physics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering).

(c) At the University of Maryland, College Park (since January 2002)

Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Physics, and Glenn L. Martin Professor of Engineering (on leave of absence since July 2003)
Until July 2003, Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology

(d) Current (since March 2003)

Abdus Salam Research Professor and Director, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). (The rank in the UNESCO system is that of Assistant Director General.)

Visiting Positions

Summers of 1981, 82, 84, Visiting Scientist, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
1983, Visiting Scientist, DFVLR, Göttingen, Germany
Spring 1985, Visiting Professor of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology
Spring 1988, Visiting Professor of Physics, Rockefeller University
Fall 1992, Visiting Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
1995-96, Member, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Spring 1999 and Fall 2008, Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Professor, Newton Institute, Cambridge University, England
2001-, Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
Summer 2001, Satish Dhawan Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
Summer 2002, Sir C.V. Raman Distinguished Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences

Research interests, teaching and publications

Primary expertise: Fluid mechanics and turbulence. Other interests: complex fluids, nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena and cryogenic helium. Emerging interests: mathematical modeling of global change and biomechanical phenomena.

Taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such topics at Yale, often short courses elsewhere.

About 260 journal publications and book articles relating to areas of my specialization, and also on sonic booms, nucleation of droplets in condensation, chaos, fractals, cosmology, and so forth.

Invited and special lectures

Delivered numerous plenary and principal invited lectures in international meetings and workshops on fluid dynamics and related fields such as plasma physics, aeronautics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear dynamics, applied mathematics, fractals, and complexity. Opening addresses at many conferences at ICTP and elsewhere.

Numerous invited seminars in Universities and in Government and Industrial Research Laboratories all over the world. Among them:

1986, Emerging Scholar Lecture, University of Notre Dame
1987, The inaugural Stanley Corrsin Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins University
1988, Phillips Lectures, Haverford College
1992, Sabita Choudhury Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute of Science
1995, Distinguished Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1997, P.-Y. Zhou Memorial Plenary Lecture at the Seventh Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Chennai
1998, Sadowsky Lecture in Applied Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1998, Distinguished Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park
1998, Carl Gunnard Johnson Lecturer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2001, Distinguished Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University
2001, Shih-i Pai Lecturer, University of Maryland
2002, C.H.B. Priestley Lecturer, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale
2003, The inaugural J.M. Burgers Lecturer, Technological University, Delft
2003, Lecture at the hundredth anniversary of Professor Carlo Ferrari, Politecnico di Torino
2004, L.S.G. Kovasznay Lecture, University of Houston, Texas
2004, The inaugural Satish Dhawan Memorial Plenary Lecture at the Tenth Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2004, C.K. Majumdar Lecturer, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
2005, Plenary Lecturer, Inaugural Meeting of the World Year of Physics, Paris
2006, Distinguished Lecturer, Central University of Hyderabad, India
2006, The Abdus Salam Memorial Lecturer, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India; the Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan
2006, Inaugural Foundation Lecturer, Applied Mathematics Centre, Bangalore University
2006, Sir James Lighthill Distinguished Lecturer, Florida State University
2007, Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Distinguished Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
2008, Crocco Lecturer, Princeton University
2008, Speaker at the Opening Ceremony, 25th Anniversary Meeting TWAS
2008, Speaker at Andlinger Lecture on Energy and Environment, Princeton University

Awards, Honors, Academies, etc.

1983, Humboldt Fellow
1985, Fellow, American Physical Society
1988, Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
1989, Guggenheim Fellow
1991, Society of Scholars, Johns Hopkins University
1992, Distinguished Alumnus Award, Aerospace Department, Indian Institute of Science
1993, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1993, Associate Fellow, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
1995, Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society
1996, Distinguished Scholar Award, American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association
1997, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1998, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1998, Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS, now called the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World), Trieste, Italy
1999, Member, United States National Academy of Engineering
1999, Member, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science
2000 (deferred), Ulam Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2001, Professor B.D. Tilak Distinguished Fellow, Department of Chemical Technology, Mumbai University
2003, The 2002 Medal & Lecture in Engineering Sciences, TWAS
2003, Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
2003, Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2004, Honorary Professor, Tehran University
2005, Fellow, Institute of Physics, London
2005, Foreign Member, Mongolian National Academy of Sciences
2006, Fellow, the World Innovation Foundation, UK
2006, International Prize and Gold Medal in memory of Professors Modesto Panetti and Carlo Ferrari, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Italy
2006, Distinguished Service Award and Inaugural Endowment Lecture at the Centre for Applied Mathematics, Bangalore University, India
2007, Recipient of the National Order of Scientific Merit Certificate by the Brazilian Government and the Academy of Sciences
2007, Foreign Fellow, African Academy of Sciences
2007, UNESCO Medal for Promoting International Scientific Cooperation and World Peace from the World Heritage Centre, Florence, Italy
2007, President Dr. Zakir Husain Memorial Award from the Duty Society of AMU and the Indian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics
2007, Member, United States National Academy of Sciences
2007, Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Sciences, New Delhi
2007, Honorary Member, Accademia Torre e Tasso, Duino-Aurisina, Trieste, Italy
2008, Dwight Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach, American Physical Society
2009, Nusselt-Reynolds Prize, Assembly of the World Conference on Experimental and Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Editorial: Journals and Series

Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1984-1990
Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science, series C (Sadhana), 1988-1991
Editorial Board Member, American Scientist, 1990
Member, Advisory Board, Springer Book Series on Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 1990-2000
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Nonlinear Science, 1991-2002
Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 1991-1995
Editor, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1992-1995
Associate Editor, Physical Review E, 1994-1997
Associate Editor, Physics of Fluids, 1995-2000
Editorial Board Member, Physical Review E, 1997-2001
Editorial Board Member, Springer Book Series on Applied Mathematics, since 2000
Editorial Board Member, North-Holland Book Series on Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, since 2000
Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2000-2006
Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Dynamics, since 2004
Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Turbulence, since 2004
Associate Editor, African Physical Review, since 2006
Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, from January 2009

Editorial: Books

Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, volumes 1 and 2, Elsevier, 1993 (Proceedings of the Third World-Conference), with R.K. Shah and Y. Joshi
Developments in Fluid Dynamics and Aerospace Engineering, Interline, 1995 (conference proceedings), with S.M. Deshpande, A. Prabhu and P.R. Viswanath
Two issues of Pramana: Journal of Physics, on Nonlinearity and Chaos in the Physical Sciences, Indian Academy of Science, 1997, with R. Ramaswamy
Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers: A Status Report, Springer, 1998, with R.J. Donnelly
Perspectives and Problems in Nonlinear Physics, Springer, 2003, with E. Kaplan and J.E. Marsden
Two issues of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion: Special Issues in Honor of Professor R.A. Antonia, pp. 91-492, 2004 (with R.W. Bilger)
100 Reasons to be a Scientist, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2004 (translated into Chinese, Marati, Portuguese, Italian, Bengali, etc.)
One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research, Solid Mechanics and its Applications, Springer, 2006 (with G.E.A. Meier and H.-J. Heinemann)
ICTP and Africa, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2007
The ICTP Experience: Diploma and Step Students, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2007
The ICTP Experience: The TRIL Programme, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2007
Collective Phenomena in Macroscopic Systems, Proceedings of the Conference Villa Olmo, Como, Italy 4 -6 December, 2006, World Scientific, 2007 (with G. Bertin, R. Pozzoli & M. Romé)
ICTP and Latin America, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2007
Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, held in Udine and Trieste, 7-9 Jan. 2008. (AIP conference proceedings, 1018). American Institute of Physics, 2008 (with B.G. Sidharth, F. Honsell, O. Mansutti and A. de Angelis)

Students and post-docs

Supervised 30 Ph.D. students (plus currently 3)
17 post-docs

Miscellaneous

Mentioned in a number of directories such as "American Men and Women of Science", "Who is Who in the East," "Who is Who in the World", "Who is Who in America"
Honorary Member, Lions Club di Trieste Host;
Prefaces to books authored by others, etc.
News items or articles about Katepalli R. Sreenivasan in Phys. Today, 56, no.2, February, 27-28, 2003; Phys. World, 18, no.10, October, 38-41, 2005; Nature 438, 1046-1047, 2005; Nature Materials 5, 843-845, 2006; many newspaper accounts in New Haven, in Trieste and vicinity, in India, in Italy at large.

Examples of service activities at Yale University

Yale College Faculty Review Committee, 1993
Member, Advisory and Tenured Appointments Committee for Physical Sciences and Engineering, 1993 and 1996-2000
Faculty Development Committee, co-chair, 1993, member, 1994-1996
Factfinder, Yale College Executive Committee, 1994-95
Silliman Lecture Committee, 1994-1998 (chairman 1997, 98) Applied Mathematics Committee, 1993-1996 (chairman 1996)
Member, Executive Committee, Cowles Foundation for Economics Research, 1998
Geophysics Search Committee, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1998
Chairman, Committee to recruit Assistant Dean for Yale College and Director of Asian American Cultural Center, 1999
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Engineering, 1999
Member, Yale Health Plan Advisory Committee, 2000

Examples of service activities at the University of Maryland

Chairman, Search Committee, Director of Cooperative Institute for Earth Systems and Climate Studies, 2002
Member, Selection Committee for the Kim Endowed Professor, 2003
Member, Selection Committee for Outstanding Research Award, 2003
Member, Advisory Committee for the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program Committee, 2003
Member for the Physical Science Complex, 2003
Member, Burgers Board, from 2003

Examples of service activities elsewhere

Representative, Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) of the American Physical Society (APS), for the Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists, 1981-1987
Member, Executive Committee of DFD, 1986-1991 (Chairman 1990; Ex-Oﬃcio Member until 1997)
Member, Fluid Dynamics Prize Committee, APS, 1991
Member, Nominating Committee, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 1997-2000
Frenkiel Award Committee for DFD, Member 1989, Chairman 1999
Member, Publications Committee, DFD, 1992-1994
Member, NRC Committee on Nonlinear Science, 1993
Member, External Advisory Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, since 1994, Chairman 2000-2003
Member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation (Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics), 1995
Member, Otto Laporte Award Committee, APS, 1996
Member, NRC Committee on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Board on Physics and Astronomy, 1997-1999
Founder-Chair, Topical Group in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, APS, 1996 and 1997
Onsager Prize Committee, APS, Member 1997-2000 (Chair 1997)
Member, Fluids Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988-1991
Member, New Haven Chapter of ASME, 1998-2000
Member, Publications Oversight Committee, American Physical Society, 1999-2002
Member (2001-2003), Vice-Chair (2002) and Chair (2003) of the Mechanical Engineering Peer Committee, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Member, Committee of Human Rights, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, since 2001
Member, Biomass Task Force, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2001
Member, Search Committee for Editor of Physical Review E, 2002
Secretary (2003), Vice-Chair (2004) and Chair (2005), Section 10 of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Member, Committee on Membership, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, 2003-2006
Member, Governing Council, TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, since 2003
Chairman, Engineering Sciences Prize Committee, TWAS, 2003-2006
Member, Scientific Advisory Council, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, since 2004
Co-chairman, World Conference on Sustainable Development, Durban, South Africa, 2005
Patron, Indian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, since 2006
Member, IUTAM Symposia Panel for Fluid Mechanics, since 2006
Member, Scientific Advisory Council, National Mathematics Institute, Abuja, Nigeria, since 2006
Chairman, the G8-UNESCO World Forum on Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership on Sustainable Development, Trieste, Italy, 2007
Associate Member, C13 commission on "Physics for development", IUPAP, since 2007
Member, International Advisory Council, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Mumbai, 2009-

Ph.D. students, the titles of their theses and last known positions

P.J. Strykowski: "The control of absolutely and convectively unstable flows", 1985. Morse Alumni Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN
T.B. Lynn: "Manipulation of the structure of a turbulent boundary layer", 1987. Vice President, Dexsil Corporation, CT
S. Raghu: "The control of combustion and acoustic coupled fluid dynamic instabilities", 1987. President, Advanced Fluidics, MD
M.S. Garelick: "Numerical analysis of manipulated laminar flows", 1988. Professor of Engineering, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, NY
R. Ramshankar: "The dynamics of countercurrent mixing layers", 1988. Director, Marketing and Strategic Analysis, Cummins, Inc.
C. Meneveau: "The multifractal nature of turbulence", 1989. Louis M. Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, MD
A.B. Chhabra: "The thermodynamic formalism of multifractals and its applications to chaotic dynamical systems and turbulence", 1989. Chief Investment Oﬃcer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (formally registered with R.V. Jensen)
D.J. Olinger: "Universality in the transition to chaos in open fluid flows", 1990. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA
M.S. Fan: "Features of vorticity in turbulent flows", 1990. Department Manager, Microelectronics Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
D.M. Kyle: "The instability and breakdown of a round variable-density jet", 1991. Staff Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
A.W. Johnson: "Laminarization and retransition of turbulent boundary layers in supersonic flow", 1993. Combustion/aerothermal Design Engineer, General Electric Aircraft Engines, OH
L.M. Zubair: "Studies in turbulence using wavelet transforms for data compression and scale separation", 1993. Research Scientist, Earth Institute, Columbia University, NY
P. Kailasnath: "Reynolds number effects and the momentum flux in turbulent boundary layers", 1993. Senior Research Scientist, Diagnostic Radiology, Yale Medical School, CT
J.R. Saylor: "Differential diffusion in turbulent and oscillatory, non-turbulent water flows", 1993. Associate Professor, Clemson University, SC
G. Stolovitzky: "Statistical order of small scales in turbulence", 1994. Manager, Functional Genomics Program, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
A. Juneja: "Scaling laws in turbulence: their manifestation and utility", 1995. Director of Product Quality, Egain Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
A. Denner: "Classification of cardiac disease state by electrocardiographic signal processing", 1996. Systems Analyst, Morgan Stanley, NY
A. Sahay: "The mean velocity and Reynolds shear stress in turbulent pipe and channel flows", 1997. Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B. Dhruva: "Experiments in high-Reynolds-number turbulence", 1999. Research Director and Discipline Manager, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
R. Bhiladvala: "Development of microfabricated thermal sensors with guard heating for wall shear stress measurements in turbulent flows", 2000. Post-doctoral Fellow, Nanofabrication Center, Cornell University
I. San Gil: "Fractal character of isoscalar surfaces in shear free turbulence and some effects of shear on the turbulence structure", 2001. Bioinformatics Specialist, Yale Medical School
S. Kurien: "Anisotropy and the universal properties of turbulence", 2001. Staff Scientist, Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
C.M. White: "High Reynolds number turbulence in small apparatus", 2001. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, CA
K.G. Aivalis: "Measurement and analysis of scalar fluctuations in turbulent flows", 2004. Self-employed as a consultant.
J. Cleve: "Data-driven theoretical modelling of the turbulent energy cascade", 2004 (co-supervised with Dr. Martin Greiner). Research Scientists, Siemens, Germany
A. Karpikov: "Drag reduction by dilute addition of long-chain polymers: simulations using the Lattice Boltzmann methods", 2005 (co-supervised with S.A. Orszag). Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, Yale University
M.R. Mohyuddin: "On solutions of nonlinear equations arising in the Rivlin-Ericksen work", SANDWICH student from Pakistan, 2005
G.P. Bewley: "Using frozen hydrogen particles to observe rotating and quantized flows in liquid helium", 2006. Post-doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Göttingen, Germany
Vicky Taffoti: "Dynamics of rings of nonlinear electromechanical systems with rigid and flexible arms�, 2008. SANDWICH student, Cameroon
Gabriella Silano: "Numerical simulations of thermal convection at high Prandtl numbers", 2008. Trieste, Italy.

Current Ph.D. students, supervised in conjunction with a co-advisor

Kaveri Joshi (thermal convection in liquid sodium, Maryland)
Xsitaaz Chadee (SANDWICH student, Trinidad)
Valentina Stocca (LES modeling of stratified atmospheric flows, Trieste)
Enrico Fonda (low temperature physics, Trieste)
Cicilia Rorai (turbulence simulations, Trieste)

Post-Doctoral —only those who stayed for significant amounts of time are listed (along with the positions to which they moved next)

Surya Raghu (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Stonybrook, NY)
Rahul Prasad (Ph.D., Yale; Vice President, Science Research Laboratory, CA)
Ashvin Chhabra (Ph.D., Yale; Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago)
Richard Everson (Ph.D., Leeds; Research Associate, Rockefeller University, NY)
John Ringland (Ph.D., Austin Texas; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SUNY Buffalo)
Hyundoo Shin (Ph.D., Brown; Samsung Electronics Company, South Korea)
Anil Suri (Ph.D., Harvard; unknown)
Daniel Lathrop (Ph.D., Texas; Assistant Professor of Physics, Emery University, Atlanta)
Lareef Zubair (Ph.D., Yale; Assistant Professor, Institute of Fundamental Research, Sri Lanka)
Anupam Sahay (Ph.D., Yale; Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Madison-Wisconsin)
Eric van Doorn (Ph.D., Duke; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Rutgers University)
Adonios Karpetis (Ph.D., Yale; Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)
Rustom Bhiladvala (Ph.D., Yale; Nanofrabrication Center, Cornell University)
Joerg Schumacher (Ph.D., University of Marburg; Assistant Professor, University of Ilmenau)
A. Sameen (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science; Assistant Professor, IIT Madras)
Jean-Daniel Rüedi (Ph.D., Switzerland)
Diego Donzis (Ph.D. Georgia Tech; Assistant Professor, Texas A&M)

Many visitors (both short and long term).