India - A Knowledge Power: Opportunities and Challenges

Professor K R Sreenivasan

December 14, 2008, 11.30AM - 1PM

About the Speaker

After his education in India, Australia and Johns Hopkins, Prof. K.R. Sreenivasan joined Yale in 1979, became the Harold W. Cheel Professor in 1988, holding joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, and Mathematics. He moved to the University of Maryland in 2002, where he was the Distinguished University Professor in the Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology---which he also directed---and in Physics and Mechanical Engineering. He is presently the Director of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. His research interests are fluid turbulence, and nonlinear and statistical physics. Sreenivasan has served as editor or associate editor of several scientific journals, delivered numerous named lectures and held various administrative positions. He has received the Otto Laporte Award and the Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach from the American Physical Society, the 2002 Medal & Lecture in Engineering Sciences from TWAS, the International Prize and Modesto Panetti and Carlo Ferrari Gold Medal, Academia delle Scienze di Torino and the Zakir Husain Award of the Indian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the African Academy of Sciences.