Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor and Director of the Institute for Physical Science & Technology, Distinguished University Professor, Glenn L. Martin Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics

Fluid turbulence; complex fluids, combustion, cryogenic helium, and nonlinear dynamics

(301) 405-7885 | krs@ictp.trieste.it | 4203 Computer & Space Sciences Building

Education
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1975

Scientific and Professional Membership
The National Academy of Sciences, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; American Mathematical Society; American Physical Society; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Sigma Xi.

Invited Lectures
Delivered numerous plenary and principal invited lectures in international meetings and workshops on fluid dynamics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear dynamics, applied mathematics, fractals, etc; many invited seminars in Universities and in Government and Industrial Research Laboratories all over the world. Among them: Emerging Scholar Lecture, University of Notre Dame, 1986; the first Stanley Corrsin Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, 1987; Phillips Lecture, Haverford College, 1988; Sabita Choudhury Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute of Science, 1992; Distinguished Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1995; P.-Y. Zhou memorial plenary lecture at the seventh Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Madras, 1997; Sadowsky Lecture in Applied Mechanics, RPI, 1998; Distinguished Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park, 1998; Carl Gunnard Johnson Lecturer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1998, etc.
Other: Organized scientific workshops, conferences and meetings such as Third World-Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Developments in Fluid Dynamics and Aerospace Engineering, Turbulence for Physicists, Ultra-High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flows Using Cryogenic Helium, International Meeting on Turbulence, invited sessions and discussion sections in meetings such as IUTAM, SIAM, APS, ASME, AIAA, etc.; Participated in collaborative atmospheric and oceanic measurement expeditions in Australia, as well as in field experiments on sonic booms in India; other atmospheric experiments; Member, NSB Panel on Nonlinear Science, 1993; member, External Advisory Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, since 1994; member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation (Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics), 1995; member, NRC Committee on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Board on Physics and Astronomy, 1997-1999; member, Nominating Committee, Conn. Acad. Sci. and Engg., since 1997, etc.; 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, 1986-1997 (chairman 1990); Frenkiel Award Committee, DFD, member 1989, Chairman 1999; member, Fluid Dynamics Prize Committee, APS, 1991; member, Publications Committee, DFD, 1992-1994; member, Otto Laporte Award Committee, APS, 1996; 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; member, Publications Oversight Committee, American Physical Society, since 1999.

Honors and Awards
Humboldt Fellow, 1983; Fellow, American Physical Society, 1985; Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 1988; Guggenheim Fellow, 1989; Society of Scholars, Johns Hopkins University, 1991; Distinguished Alumnus Award, Aerospace Department, Indian Institute of Science, 1992; Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993; Associate Fellow, AIAA, 1993; Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society, 1995; Distinguished Scholar Award, American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association, 1996; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science, 1997; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998; Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1999; Foreign Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, 1999; Member, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science, 1999; American Men and Women of Science, Who is Who in the East, Who is Who in the World, Who is Who in America

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