ACCOLADES 

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• Our soil quality device project covered by the national media (2023):  The Hindu  PIB India  DTNext  UNI Varta (Hindi)  Dinamani (Tamil)   ETV Bharat (Malayalam)

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• Article titled "A mathematical model based investigation of liquid film dewetting over porous solid substrates" by Rahul Sathyanath, Sreeram K. Kalpathy was chosen as "Editor's Pick" in Physics of Fluids journal. (2023)

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• Article titled "Marangoni Plumes in Miscible Spreading" by Anurag Pant, Sreeram K. Kalpathy, and Baburaj A. Puthenveetil was chosen as "Editor's Pick" in Physics of Fluids journal. (2023)

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• Our publication on photochemically assisted patterning was selected for exposition on the IITM TECH TALK website by Dean (Alumni & Corporate Relations), IIT Madras (2022)

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• Young Faculty Recognition Award of IIT Madras for excellence in teaching and research (2021)

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• Complimentary 1-year membership of American Chemical Society (ACS) for serving as reviewer for ACS journals (2021-'22)

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• Best Paper Award in the track of Experimental and Theoretical Fluid Flow at International Conference on Fluids and Chemical Engineering (FluidsChe2015) organized by Universiti Malaysia Pahang, at Langkawi, Malaysia (2015)  

       

      (Paper title: "Thermally induced dewetting of thin liquid films consisting of two miscible components” by S. K. Kalpathy and Amrita S. Ravi)

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• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota (2011)  

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• S. Anantharamakrishnan Memorial Award for highest CGPA in Dual degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras (2007)

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AWARDS WON BY STUDENT ADVISEES
 

• Santhra Krishnan P., Aneela Perumalla, Guguloth Naresh, Gopalan S., Thankam Regi, Berly Robert, Mississippi M. Bhunia - Image titled "Dolphins on leafy waves" selected as one of the 3 best images in "The Art of Science" competition in Compflu 2024 conference (Dec 2024) held at IIT Hyderabad .

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• Aneela Perumalla (Ph.D student) - Best Poster Award in 'Polymers and Composites' category at Compflu 2024 (Dec 2024) held at IIT Hyderabad

      (Poster title: "Metal oxide-dispersed PDMS nanocomposite films with UV-NIR shielding and optimum transparency for photovoltaics" by        

       Aneela Perumalla, Tiju Thomas, and Sreeram K. Kalpathy)

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• Guguloth Naresh (Ph.D student) - Best Poster Award at CompFlu 2023 (Dec 2023) held at IIT Madras                                                      (Poster title: "Hydrodynamic simulations of instability in Pickering emulsions" by Guguloth Naresh, Ethayaraja Mani, and Sreeram K. Kalpathy)

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• Guguloth Naresh (Ph.D student) - Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) for purusing doctoral research (Jan 2023 onwards)

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• Aneela Perumalla (Ph.D student) - Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) for purusing doctoral research (Jan 2023 onwards)

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• M. Venkatramanan (B.Tech student) - B. Krishnamurthy Award for the best B.Tech project in Metallurgical & Materials Engg, IIT Madras - 2022   (Award presented during 2022 convocation of IIT Madras)

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• Swathi E, (Ph.D student) - Indo-German Science and Technology Center (IGSTC) Industrial Fellowship 2022  (Only student to be selected from IIT Madras in the 2022 cycle)

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• Santhra Krishnan P.  (Ph.D student) - Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) for purusing doctoral research (Jan 2022 onwards)

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• Swathi E. (Ph.D student) - Best Poster Award at CompFlu 2019 (Annual Meeting on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter) held at IISER Bhopal (Dec 2019)

      (Poster Title: “Photoinduced Patterning of Azo-based Polyurea thin films for Protein Patterning” by Swathi E. and Sreeram K. Kalpathy)

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• Swathi E. (Ph.D student) - Best Poster Award in In-House Symposium 2018, Dept. of Met. & Mat. Engg., IIT Madras, Chennai (May 2018)

       (Poster Title: “Patterning polymer films through photochemical responses: A prospectus” by Swathi E. and Sreeram K. Kalpathy)

 

 

• U. Hariharan (B.Tech/M.Tech Dual Degree student) - Best Poster Award in In-House Symposium 2018, Dept. of Met. & Mat. Engg., IIT Madras, Chennai (May 2018)

       (Poster Title: “Stability and dynamics of surfactant-laden thin liquid films bounded by a solid substrate” by U. Hariharan and Sreeram K. 

        Kalpathy)

 

 

• Rahul Sathyanath (Ph.D. student) - Best Poster Award in In-House Symposium 2017, Dept. of Met. & Mat. Engg., IIT Madras, Chennai (August 2017)

       (Poster Title: “Liquid film entrainment during dip coating on a porous substrate” by Rahul Sathyanath and Sreeram K. Kalpathy)

 

 

• Nithin Hariharan (M.Tech student) - Best Poster Award at "Make in India: Role of Metals and Materials (MIRMM 2015)"  an international symposium organized by NIT Karnataka, Surathkal (October 2015)

       (Poster Title: “Modeling Dip coating on chemically patterned substrates” by Nithin Hariharan, Ajay Krishnan, and S. K. Kalpathy)

 

 

 

INVITED TALKS

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• "Introduction to soft matter physics with emphasis on polymer and colloid science", as part of online faculty development programme on "Advanced Functional Materials  - Current research, innovation and applications (AFMCRIA)" at MIT World Peace University, Pune (June 2024)

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• "Some recent research findings and applications of optically responsive polymer films", as part of online faculty development programme on "Advanced Functional Materials  - Current research, innovation and applications (AFMCRIA)" at MIT World Peace University, Pune (June 2024)

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• "Mathematical modelling-assisted insights into fluid instabilities, colloidal particulate coatings and polymer patterning", as part of Aditi Simha Memorial Symposium, IIT Madras, Chennai (Apr 2023)

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• "Interfacial phenomena in complex fluids and soft matter: Some recent exciting results", as part of Materials Engineering Seminar Series, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat (Feb 2021)

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• "Introduction to colloids; Colloidal systems where rheology is important", as part of the AICTE QIP Short term course titled "Rheology of Complex Materials", Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai (Nov 2019)

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• "Polymers: Some fundamental characteristics and applications", as part of Faculty Development Programme, Vishwajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Muvattupuzha, Kerala (July 2019)

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• "Patterning liquid flow by thermal and wettability gradients", Raman Research Institute, Bangalore (Feb 2019)

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• “Interfacial flows in printing processes near surfaces with wettability contrasts” at Fluids in Engineering and Nature (FEN) seminar series, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai  (May 2018)

 

• “Basics of asymptotic analysis and self-similarity” at AIChE Sponsored Workshop on Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, Chennai  (March 2018)

 

• “Stability of thin film flows bounded by surfaces with wettability contrasts” at “A Two-day symposium on Nonlinear analysis & Fluid Dynamics”, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, Chennai  (March 2018)

 

• "Some metallurgical properties of a laser-deposited nickel-titanium shape memory alloy” at ISTE Sponsored national seminar on innovations in manufacturing and material science, Vishwajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Muvattupuzha, Kerala (Feb 2017)

 

• “Transport phenomena in liquid and colloidal materials-based coating processes" at ISTE Sponsored national seminar on innovations in manufacturing and material science, Vishwajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Muvattupuzha, Kerala  (Feb 2017)

 

• "Coating and Printing on Chemically Patterned Surfaces" at IIT Hyderabad  (Aug 2015)

 

• "Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Applications" at Anjuman Institute of Science and Technology, Bhatkal (Oct 2014)

 

• "Models for displacement of thin liquid films" at Dept. of Met. & Mat. Engg., NITK Surathkal organized by IIM-Surathkal Chapter (March 2013)