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{{Short description|Indian chemist (born 1946)}}
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|name = Swaminathan Sivaram
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|11|4|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Tamil Nadu]], India
|occupation = Chemist
|known for = Polymer chemistry
|website = {{Url|http://www.swaminathansivaram.in/|Official website}}
|awards = [[Padma Shri]] [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Vishwakarma Medal [[Chemical Research Society of India|CRSI]] Silver Medal [[Indian Science Congress Association|ICSA]] Millennium Medal [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur|IITK]] Distinguished Alumnus Award [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science|IACS]] S. R. Palit Memorial Award K. G. Naik Gold Medal [[FICCI]] Award [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] Goyal Prize Distinguished Material Scientist of the Year Award Professor M. Santappa Silver Jubilee Award [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award|VASVIK Award]] [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers|IICE R. A. Mashelkar Medal]]
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'''Swaminathan Sivaram''' (born 4 November 1946) is an Indian [[polymer chemist]], inventor, institution builder and a former director of the [[National Chemical Laboratory]], [[Pune]].<ref name="Previous Directors">{{cite web | url=http://www.ncl-india.org/files/AboutNCL/Organization/PreviousDirectors.aspx?menuid=ql8&childmenustripid=divSubQL8 | title=Previous Directors | publisher=National Chemical Laboratory | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> He is known for his pioneering work on ''alkylation of tertiary alkyl halides with trialkylaluminum'' and [[olefin polymerization]]<ref name="Indian Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N98-1242 | title=Indian Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812224924/http://www.insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N98-1242 | archive-date=12 August 2016 }}</ref> and holds the highest number of US patents by an Indian working outside the US.<ref name="Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram receives honorary doctorate degree">{{cite web | url=https://www.chem.purdue.edu/media/news/2010/sivaram_hon_doc.php | title=Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram receives honorary doctorate degree | publisher=Purdue University | date=28 April 2010 | access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref> He is a fellow of several significant professional organizations. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2006, for his contributions to Indian science.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:ncl-pune.jpg|thumb|240px|[[National Chemical Laboratory]].]]
Sivaram was born in the south Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]] on 4 November 1946.<ref name="DPEMOU profile">{{cite web | url=http://dpemou.nic.in/MOUFiles/biodata1213/S.Shivram.pdf | title=DPEMOU profile | publisher=Department of Public Enterprises (MoU Division) | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> His early college studies were at [[Madras Christian College]] from where he passed the graduate degree (BSc) in chemistry in 1965 after which he secured his master's degree (MSc) from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] in 1967.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> Moving to the US, he did his doctoral research under Nobel Laureate [[Herbert C. Brown]] at [[Purdue University]] and secured his doctorate (PhD) in 1972.<ref name="Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram receives honorary doctorate degree" /> He continued in the US for two more years and worked as a research associate at the Institute of Polymer Science of the [[University of Akron]], Ohio. He returned to India in 1973 and joined the [[Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited]] (IPCL), [[Baroda]] as a research scientist where he worked in various capacities such as research manager and deputy general manager till 1988, when he moved to the [[National Chemical Laboratory]] (NCL) as the Head of the Department of Polymer Chemistry. In 2002, he was promoted as the director of the institution and worked there till his superannuation in 2010.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" />

Sivaram has served as visiting faculty at many universities in India and abroad.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" /> He was a visiting scientist at the [[Blaise Pascal University]] in 1991 during September–October. In 1993–94, he was involved with the [[Institute of Chemical Technology]] as the ''K. S. S. Raghavan Chemical Weekly Visiting Professor'' of Polymer Science and Technology and has served the [[Universite Bordeaux]] in September – October 1995 as the visiting professor. He was also a guest lecturer at the [[Free University of Berlin]] in May 1999 and the Harold A. Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor at the [[University of Akron]] in 2006.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" />

Sivaram has been involved with the Government of India and its various autonomous bodies and is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C).<ref name="DPEMOU profile" /> He is also a former member of the ''Task Force on Public Sector'' of the [[Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises (India)|Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises]], ''Innovation Council on Chemicals and Petrochemicals'' of the [[Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers]] and the Board of Trustees of the [[Oil and Natural Gas Commission]] (ONGC).<ref name="DPEMOU profile" /> He was the vice president of several science forums and societies such as the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] from 2007 to 2012, the [[Indian National Science Academy]] from 2004 to 2006, the [[Chemical Research Society of India]] from 2005 to 2008 and the Materials Research Society of India from 2004 to 2007.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" /> He has sat on the Board of Governors of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai]], the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune]] and the [[Institute of Chemical Technology]], Mumbai. He has served as the faculty selection committee of the Indian Institute of Technology for their Mumbai, Kanpur, Chennai and Hyderabad institutes and is a member of the Scientific Council for Catalysis of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], Moscow.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" />

== Legacy ==
[[File:Newcampus1.jpg|thumb|240px|[[IISER Pune]], New campus]]
During his US days, Sivaram was associated with [[Herbert C. Brown]] and J. P. Kennedy and worked on [[alkylation]] of tertiary [[alkyl halides]] with trialkylaluminum. His researches along with Kennedy is reported to have assisted in widening the knowledge base on the mechanism of carbocationic [[polymerization]] and led to the latter-day techniques of ''controlled'' and [[Living cationic polymerization|living carbocationic polymerization]].<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> His researches have also helped in creating new properties in polymers and threw more light on the synthesis, structure and properties of polymeric materials.<ref name="Summary of Achievements">{{cite web | url=http://serb.gov.in/pdfs/research/Dr_Swaminathan_Sivaram.pdf | title=Summary of Achievements | publisher=Science and Engineering Research Board | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> He has also worked on polymer-layered clay [[nanocomposites]] and has been successful in synthesizing several organic modifiers for clay for the preparation of exfoliated nanocomposite of clay.<ref name="Summary of Achievements" /> The team led by him at the [[National Chemical Laboratory]] conducted research on [[olefin polymerization]] using Ziegler Natta catalysts which opened a new school of research in the topic.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> His researches are recorded in over 200 articles published in peer reviewed journals; [[ResearchGate]], an online knowledge repository, has listed 225 of them.<ref name="Swaminathan Sivaram National Chemical Laboratory">{{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Swaminathan_Sivaram | title=Swaminathan Sivaram National Chemical Laboratory | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> He is the author of ''Living Anionic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate'', a book detailing his research on [[Living anionic polymerization]].<ref name="Living Anionic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate">{{cite book | title=Living Anionic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate | publisher=VDM Verlag |author1=Mahua Ganguly Dhara |author2=Swaminathan Sivaram | year=2010 | pages=188 | isbn=9783639231748}}</ref> He has also edited two books, ''Polymer Science'', (2 Volumes)<ref name="Polymer Science - Volume 1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVCqGQAACAAJ | title=Polymer Science – Volume 1 | publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill | author=S. Sivaram | year=1991 | pages=1067 | isbn=9780074603925}}</ref><ref name="Polymer Science - Volume 2">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dt8vnQEACAAJ | title=Polymer Science – Volume 2 | publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill | author=S. Sivaram | year=1991 | pages=1083 | isbn=9780074603925}}</ref> and ''Macromolecular Symposia, Volume 240''.<ref name="Macromolecular Symposia, Volume 240">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQbgngEACAAJ | title=Macromolecular Symposia, Volume 240 | publisher=Wiley-VCH |author1=Durairaj Baskaran |author2=S. Sivaram | year=2006| isbn=9783527317479 }}</ref> Some of his articles have also been compiled as a book, ''Chemical vapor deposition: thermal and plasma deposition of electronic materials''.<ref name="Chemical vapor deposition: thermal and plasma deposition of electronic materials">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QxRTAAAAMAAJ | title=Chemical vapor deposition: thermal and plasma deposition of electronic materials | publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold | author=S. Sivaram | year=1995 | pages=292 | isbn=9780442010799}}</ref> He is the holder of approximately 100 patents of which 50 are approved in the US.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /><ref name="Patents by Inventor Swaminathan Sivaram">{{cite web | url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/swaminathan-sivaram | title=Patents by Inventor Swaminathan Sivaram | publisher=Justia Patents | date=2015 | access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Bloombrg profile">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=29433488&privcapId=20333050 | title=Bloomberg profile | publisher=Bloomberg | date=2015 | access-date=3 August 2018}} {{dead link|date=August 2018}}</ref> He is known to be the holder of the highest number of US patents by an Indian-based outside the US<ref name="Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram receives honorary doctorate degree" /> and many of his inventions have been put to commercial use in India and abroad. He has also guided 36 students in their doctoral researches.<ref name="Indian Fellow" />

Sivaram's efforts are known in the establishment of the first R&D centre on petrochemical research in India at NCL and transforming the organization into a centre for interdisciplinary research.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> He is the founder of the ''NCL Innovation Park'' and the ''Technology-Business Incubator'' under the aegis of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR), a first time in India.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> He was involved in the establishment of [[Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research]] (IISER) and served as the project director during formation of [[IISER Pune]], in 2006.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> He is the founder chairman Venture Center (Entrepreneurship Development Center), a not-for-profit initiative by the [[National Chemical Laboratory]] for promoting technology and knowledge-based enterprises for India, and sits on its board of directors.<ref name="Board of Directors">{{cite web | url=http://www.venturecenter.co.in/bod.php | title=Board of Directors | publisher=Venture Center | date=2015 | access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
[[File:The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram, a polymer chemist, at an Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 29, 2006.jpg|thumb|The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram, a polymer chemist, at an Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 29, 2006]]
Sivaram, a Bhatnagar Fellow of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, is also an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]], [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], [[The World Academy of Sciences]], [[International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry]], [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers]] and the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="Swaminathan Sivaram - Current Science">{{cite web | url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/102/03/385a.pdf | title=Swaminathan Sivaram – Current Science | publisher=Current Science | date=2015 | access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref>{{efn-ua|Sivaram, a Bhatnagar Fellow of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR),<ref name="CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://dsir.csir.res.in/webdsir/files/background-note/Swaminathan%20Sivaram.pdf | title=CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211060257/http://dsir.csir.res.in/webdsir/files/background-note/Swaminathan%20Sivaram.pdf | archive-date=11 December 2015 }}</ref> was elected as the Fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="IAS Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sivaram,_Dr_Swaminathan | title=IAS Fellow | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 1992.<ref name="NASI Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S | title=NASI Fellow | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316043224/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S | archive-date=16 March 2016 }}</ref> The [[Indian National Science Academy]] elected him as their Fellow in 1998.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> He was selected for the J. C. Bose Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] in 2007, the tenancy holding till 2011.<ref name="Dr. S. Sivaram - IPI">{{cite web | url=http://www.ipiindia.org/excellent-contribution-to-the-polymer-industry-academia/item/dr-s-sivaram-2 | title=Dr. S. Sivaram – IPI | publisher=Indian Plastics Institute | date=2015 | access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref> He is also a fellow of the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]],<ref name="Search Of Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109182038/http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 November 2015 | title=Search Of Fellows | publisher=Indian National Academy of Engineering | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref> [[The World Academy of Sciences]] (TWAS), [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers]] and the [[International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC)<ref name="CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow" /><ref name="Venture Center profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.venturecenter.co.in/dr_sivaram.php | title=Venture Center profile | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2015 | access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref> and a recipient of the degree of the Doctor of Science (Honoris causa) from the [[Purdue University]] in 2010.<ref name="Dr. Swaminathan Sivaram receives honorary doctorate degree" />}}

In 1987, Sivaram received the [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] for applied industrial research.<ref name="VASVIK Industrial Research Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.vasvik.org/chemical_sciences_&_technology.html | title=VASVIK Industrial Research Award | publisher=Vasvik | date=2014 | access-date=4 January 2015}}</ref> The next year, the [[Society of Polymer Science]] selected him for the Professor M. Santappa Silver Jubilee Award<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> and he shared the 1995 [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] with [[G. Madhavan Nair]] and [[Prem Shanker Goel]].<ref name="Om Prakash Bhasin awards">{{cite web | url=http://www.opbfawards.com/engineering.html | title=Om Prakash Bhasin awards | publisher=Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation | date=2015 | access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref> The [[Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry]] (FICCI) awarded him their annual honour for Physical Sciences in 1996 and the [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] presented him with the Professor S.R. Palit Award in 1997.<ref name="CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow" /> The [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]], his alma mater, awarded him the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award.<ref name="Distinguished Alumnus Award - 1998 ">{{cite web | url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/dora/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=219&Itemid=361 | title=Distinguished Alumnus Award – 1998 | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211062245/http://www.iitk.ac.in/dora/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=219&Itemid=361 | archive-date=11 December 2015 }}</ref> He received the Silver Medal of the [[Chemical Research Society of India]] in 2002, followed by the Chemcon R. A. Mashelkar Medal of the [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers]] in 2003,<ref name=" R A Mashelkar Medal">{{cite web | url=http://www.iiche.org.in/chemcomspeakers.aspx | title=R A Mashelkar Medal | publisher=Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers | date=2015 | access-date=10 December 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211030832/http://www.iiche.org.in/chemcomspeakers.aspx | archive-date=11 December 2015 }}</ref> the same year as he received the Vishwakarma Medal of the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow" />

The Government of India included him in the 2006 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honours]] list for the civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]]<ref name="Padma Awards" /> and in 2010, [[Kurukshetra University]] awarded him the Goyal Prize for Applied Sciences for the year 2007.<ref name="Sivaram awarded Goyal Prize">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Sivaram-awarded-Goyal-Prize/articleshow/6144726.cms | title=Sivaram awarded Goyal Prize | publisher=Times of India | date=9 July 2010 | access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Dr. S. Sivaram awarded the Goyal Prize for 2007 in Applied Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/CSIR/External/Heads/aboutcsir/announcements/goyal_ncl_020710.pdf | title=Dr. S. Sivaram awarded the Goyal Prize for 2007 in Applied Sciences | publisher=Council for Scientific and Industrial Research | date=21 June 2010 | access-date=10 December 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211053619/http://www.csir.res.in/CSIR/External/Heads/aboutcsir/announcements/goyal_ncl_020710.pdf | archive-date=11 December 2015 }}</ref> The same year, he received the Material Scientist of the Year Award of the Materials Research Society of India. He is also a recipient of the Millennium Medal of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]] and the K. G. Naik Gold Medal of the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]].<ref name="Dr. S. Sivaram is currently Bhatnagar Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.excitingscience.org/sp/sivaram.pdf | title=Dr. S. Sivaram is currently Bhatnagar Fellow | publisher=Exciting Science | date=2015 | access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>

== Selected articles ==
* {{cite journal | title=High Temperature Polymer-Graphite Hybrid Composites for Bipolar Plates: Effect of Processing Conditions on Electrical Properties | author=S. Radhakrishnan, B. T. S. Ramanujam, A. Adhikary and S. Sivaram | journal=J. Power Sources | year=2007 | volume=45 | issue=1093| pages=702–707 | bibcode=2007JPS...163..702R | doi=10.1016/j.jpowsour.2006.08.019 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Kinetics of Hexene-1 Polymerization using N,N diisopropyl benzene 2,3, 1,8 naphthyl 1,4 diazabutane Dibromo nickel I Methylaluminoxane (MAO) Catalyst system |author1=U. Subramanyam |author2=S. Sivaram |name-list-style=amp | journal=J. Polym. Sci. A| year=2007 | volume=45 | issue=1093|doi=10.1002/pola.21852 | pages=1093–1100 }}
* {{cite journal | title=End-Functional Poly (methyl methacrylate) s via Group Transfer Polymerization |author1=R. Gnaneshwar |author2=S. Sivaram |name-list-style=amp | journal=J. Power Sources | year=2007 | volume=45 | issue=2514|pages=2514 |bibcode=2007JPoSA..45.2514G |doi=10.1002/pola.22013 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Copolyesters Based on Poly (butylenes terephthalate) s Containing Cyclohexyl and Cyclopentyl Ring: Effect of Molecular Structure on the Thermal and Crystallization Behavior | author=T. E. Sandhya, C. Ramesh and S. Sivaram | journal=Macromolecules | year=2007 | volume=40 | page=6906 | doi = 10.1021/ma071272q }}
* {{cite journal | title= Synthesis of amphiphilic poly(methyl methacrylate-b-ethylene oxide) copolymers from monohydroxy telechelic poly(methyl methacrylate) as macroinitiator| author=M. G. Ohara, D. Baskaran and S. Sivaram | journal=J. Polym. Sci. A | year=2008 | volume=46 | issue= 6| pages=2132–2144 |doi=10.1002/pola.22548| bibcode=2008JPoSA..46.2132D }}
* {{cite journal | title=Polycarbonate – Clay Nanocomposites via in situ Melt Polymerization |author1=S. R. Mallikarjuna |author2=S. Sivaram |name-list-style=amp | journal=Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. | year=2008 | volume=49 | issue=2217}}
* {{cite journal | title= Addition of a Silyl Ketene Acetal to α,β-Unsaturated Cyclic Anhydrides|journal=Synthetic Communications |volume=40 |issue=16 |pages=2353–2363 |author1=R. Gnaneshwar |author2=S. Sivaram |name-list-style=amp |doi=10.1080/00397910903243815|year=2010 |s2cid=97299379 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Influence of Structure of Organic Modifiers and Polyurethane on the Clay Dispersion in Nanocomposites via in-situ Polymerization |author1=S. R. Mallikarjuna |author2=S. Sivaram |name-list-style=amp | journal=J. Appl. Polym. Sci. | year=2010 | volume=118 | issue=1774}}

== Orations and conferences ==
Sivaram has delivered several award lectures and orations; AVRA Research Foundation Award Lecture, B. D. Amin Memorial Lecture of Chemical Council, Mumbai, Dr. K.T. Achaya Memorial Lecture of [[Indian Institute of Chemical Technology]], Hyderabad, Shriram Founder Memorial Lecture of Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, New Delhi, Petrotel Distinguished Lecture of [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]], Kanpur, [[Dhirubhai Ambani]] Oration of [[Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers]], Mumbai, Professor K. K. Balasubramanian Endowment Lecture of [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]], N. R. Kamath Memorial Lecture of [[Institute of Chemical Technology]], Mumbai and Professor Kaushal Kishore Memorial Lecture of [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore are some of the notable ones.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" /> He has been an invited speaker at the meetings of the [[American Chemical Society]] in 1985, 92 and 94, International Conferences on Ionic Polymerization (IUPAC) of 1995, 97, 99, 2001 and 2005, World Polymer Congress in 2000, Europolymer Congress in 2001, and the ''Polycondensation'' conferences of 1997, 2002 and 2004.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" /> He has also delivered keynote addresses at World Polymer Congress in 2004, 2006 and 2011, International Symposium on Materials for Advanced Technologies at Singapore in 2005 and the Indian-China-Singapore Trilateral Symposium on Advances in Nanosciences at Singapore in 2010.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" />

Sivaram was associated with the International Conferences on Ionic Polymerization (IUPAC) for several of their conferences such as World Polymer Congress in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011 and 2012 as a member of the International Organizing Committee. He was the chairman of the International symposium on Ionic Polymerization, India in 2005 and was involved in the organization of the ''Polymers in the Third Millennium'' of the [[Society of Chemical Industry]] at Montpellier in 2001, the Third International Conference on ''Materials for Advanced Polymerization'' at [[Kracow]], Poland in 2009, International Symposium "Polycondensation 2010" at Rolduce Abbey, The Netherlands and the 2nd Polymer Congress of the Federation of Asian Polymers Societies at [[Beijing]] in 2011.<ref name="DPEMOU profile" />{{Portal|India|Science}}

==References==

===Notes===
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===Citations===
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Swaminathan_Sivaram | title=Swaminathan Sivaram – ResearchGate profile | date=2015 | access-date=8 December 2015}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book | title=Polymer Science – Volume 1 | publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill | author=S. Sivaram | year=1991 | pages=1067 | isbn=9780074603925}}
* {{cite book | title=Polymer Science – Volume 2 | publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill | author=S. Sivaram | year=1991 | pages=1083 | isbn=9780074603925}}
* {{cite book | title=Chemical vapor deposition: thermal and plasma deposition of electronic materials | publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold | author=S. Sivaram | year=1995 | pages=292 | isbn=9780442010799}}
* {{cite book | title=Macromolecular Symposia, Volume 240 | publisher=Wiley-VCH |author1=Durairaj Baskaran |author2=S. Sivaram | year=2006}}
* {{cite book | title=Living Anionic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate | publisher=VDM Verlag |author1=Mahua Ganguly Dhara |author2=Swaminathan Sivaram | year=2010 | pages=188 | isbn=9783639231748}}

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