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	Professor Present Address TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences 21, Brundavan Colony, Narsingi, Hyderabad - 500075 Phone: +91-40-24193666 Fax: +91-40-24193666 Email: sastry@tifrh.res.in sastry_tcis@tifr.res.in URL: http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/sastry
	(on lien from) Theoretical Sciences Unit Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur Campus, Bangalore - 560064 Phone:+91-80-22082838 Fax: +91-80-22082767 Email: sastry@jncasr.ac.in URL: http://www.jncasr.ac.in/sastry

Research interest

Structural relaxation and arrest (glass transition, gelation, jamming) in molecular liquids and soft matter. Glass forming ability, and mechanical behavior of amorphous solids under deformation, in relation to metallic glasses.Rheology of glassy soft matter and molecular liquids.Phase behavior, self assembly, nucleation and growth in network forming liquids (specifically silicon and water), and colloidal/nanoparticle suspensions. Statistical mechanics of biomolecular systems.

The sample below of recent publications gives an idea of current interests:

• Moumita Maiti, Saul Weiner, Sergey V. Buldyrev, H. Eugene Stanley and Srikanth Sastry, Potential of mean force between hydrophobic solutes in the Jagla model of water and implications for cold denaturations of proteins, J. Chem. Phys., 136, 044512 (2012)


• Shiladitya Sengupta, Filipe Vasconcelos, Frederic Affouard and Srikanth Sastry, Dependence of the fragility of a glass former on the softness of interparticle interactions, J. Chem. Phys., 135, 194503 (2011)


• Vishwas V. Vasisht, Shibu Saw and Srikanth Sastry, Liquid - liquid critical point in supercooled silicon, Nature Physics, 7, 549 (2011)


• Shibu Saw, Niels L. Ellegaard, Walter Kob and Srikanth Sastry, Computer simulation study of the phase behavior and structural relaxation in a gel-former modeled by three-body interactions, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 164506 (2011)


• M Maiti, M Rao, S Satry, Competition between folding and aggregation in a model for protein solutions, Eur. Phys. J. E, 32, 217 - 221 (2010)


• Pinaki Chaudhuri, Ludovic Berthier, Srikanth Sastry, Jamming Transitions in Amorphous Packings of Frictionless Spheres Occur Over a Continuous Range of Volume fractions, Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 165701 (2010)


• Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta, Srikanth Sastry, Growing length and time scales in glass forming liquids, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (US), 106, 3675, (2009)


• Shibu Saw, Niels L. Ellegaard, Walter Kob, Srikanth Sastry, Structural relaxation of a Gel Modeled by Three Body Interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 248305 (2009)