_{Head Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Married; two sons}

_{Educational Qualifications}

_{1974 Ph.D. (Physics) State University of New York at Stony Brook
1970 B.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics) St. Xavier’s College, University of Bombay
1967: Competed for the National Science Talent Search Examination and has been selected for the award.
1966: Campion School, Bombay}

_{Academic Positions}

_{1974 – 76 Research Associate at Michigan State University
1976 – 77 Visiting Fellow at TIFR
1977 – present On Academic Sta_ at TIFR}

_{Extended Visits
(on Sabbatical Leave from TIFR)
1982 – 84 Cornell University, U.S.A.
1991 – 92 Oxford University, U.K.}

_{Areas of Specialization
Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics
— Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems, Phase Transitions, Disordered Systems}

_{Fellowship of Academic Bodies
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.
Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy.}

_{Membership of Professional Societies.
Member of the Indian Physics Association.
Member of the Indian Complex Systems Society.
Editorial Boards, Commissions and Juries.
On Editorial Board of Pramana – Journal of Physics (1989 – 95).
On Editorial Working Committee of Physics News (1993 – 1999).
On Editorial Board of the Journal of Statistical Physics (1997 – 1999; 2003 – present).
Member, International Jury for the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2002 – 03).
Member, IUPAP C3 Commission on Statistical Physics (1999 – 2002).
Chairman, IUPAP C3 Commission on Statistical Physics (2002 – 2005).
Academic Honours, Awards and A_liations
Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy (1980).
Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1983 – 86).
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences awarded by the CSIR (1995).
Old Campionites’ Association Award for Excellence (1998 - 99).
Honorary faculty member, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,
Bangalore (1998 – 2001).
DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics (2004).
S.N. Bose Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (to be awarded by Prime Minister in January 2007).}

_{Other Professional Involvements
Member, Basic Sciences Committee of the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (1999- 2002).
Member, Physical Sciences Research Committee, CSIR (2001-2004).
Member, Board and Executive Council of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (2001 onwards).
Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Schools
Workshop on Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems, ICTP, Trieste, August 1996
(Director, along with A. Maritan and R.B. Stinchcombe)
Workshop on Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems, ICTP, Trieste, August 1999
(Director, along with A. Maritan and R.B. Stinchcombe)
SERC School on Statistical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai, February 2004
(Director, along with D. Dhar)
22nd IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS 22)
Bangalore, July 2004 (Chair, Steering Committee)}

_{Invited Talks in Conferences (1995 onwards)
‘Time-dependent Correlation Functions in Many-State Systems’
Meeting on Fundamentals of Physics and Astrophysics, (Ahmedabad, March 1995).
‘Deposition-evaporation Systems: Broken Ergodicity, Conservation Laws and Slow Dynamics’
Statphys 19, 19th IUPAP Conference on Statistical Physics (Xiamen, August 1995)
‘Disordered Driven Systems’
International Colloquium on Theoretical Physics, SUJAYATA, TIFR (Mumbai, September 1996).
‘Dynamics of Disordered Driven Systems’
DAE Solid State Physics Conference (Mumbai, December 1996).
‘Spatial Structures that Move About: Pattern Formation in Self-organized Interface Depinning’
Discussion Meeting on Structure, Dynamics and Functions of Complex Systems (Bangalore, June 1997).
‘Many-Sector Decomposable Systems: Dynamics with Infinitely Many Conservation Laws’
International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability and Chaos, Bharathidasan
University (Tiruchirapalli, February 1998).
‘Driven Di_usive System with Quenched Disorder: Steady States and Dynamics’
Meeting on Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Physics: Soft Condensed Matter
Non-Equilibrium and Boundary Critical Phenomena (Bonn, Germany, July 1998).
‘Random Walks and their Interactions’
Raman Memorial Conference (Pune University, December 1998).
‘Activity in Arrested States’
International Conference on Statistical Physics (Statphys III) (Calcutta, January 1999).
‘Polytype Kinetics and Quenching of Spin Chains with Competing Interactions’
Indo-Israeli Symposium on Current Issues of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (New Delhi, January 1999).
‘Strong Phase Separation’
Ninth Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics (Istanbul, Turkey, August 1999).
‘Strong Phase Separation’
Meeting on Recent Trends in Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics (Bangalore, November 1999).
‘Strong and Not So Strong Phase Separation’
Meeting on Slow Dynamics and Freezing in Condensed Matter Systems, (New Delhi, March 2000).
‘Clustering in a System of Particles Sliding Down a Randomly Fluctuating Surface’
International Conference on Long Range Dependent Stochastic Processes (Bangalore, January, 2002).
‘Phase Separation in Nonequilibrium Systems’
International Conference on Statistical Physics Statphys-Kolkata IV (Kolkata, January, 2002).
‘Particles Sliding on Fluctuating Surfaces: Phase Separation and Clustering’
6th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics (Taipei, May 2002).
‘Phase Separation in Passive Scalar Problems’
Discussion meeting on Statistical mechanics of threshold activated systems, (Chennai, March 2003).
‘What do we mean by an Ordered State?’
National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (Kharagpur, December 2003)
‘Clustering of Passive Scalars in a Burgers Fluid’
Meeting on Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems (Kolkata, July 2004).
‘Clustering in the Passive Scalar Problem’
Indo-French Workshop on Anomalous Scaling in Statistical Physics and Turbulence (Nice, France, July 2005).
‘Driven Di_usive Systems with Disorder’
International Workshop on Common Trends in Tra_c Systems: Physics and Computational
Models in Transportation Engineering and Biological Sciences (Kanpur, February 2006).
‘Disordered Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems’
Symposium on Frontiers of Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (New Delhi, March 2006).
‘Deposition-Evaporation of Nedles: Gradient-induced Ordering’
International Conference on Recent Advances in the Interdisciplinary Applications of
Statistical Physics (Beijing, China, September 2006).
‘Statistical Mechanics of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems’
Workshop on Frontiers of Physics (University of Mumbai, October 2006).}