Mehran Kardar

Mehran Kardar is a prominent Iranian born physicist, full Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his B.A. in Cambridge University, and gained his Ph.D at MIT. Mehran Kardar is particularly known for the KPZ equation (Kardar-Parisi-Zhang^[1]) in theoretical physics, which has been named after him and collaborators. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001. He is the author of two books,

• Statistical Physics of Fields. University of Cambridge Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521873413,
• Statistical Physics of Particles. University of Cambridge Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521873420,

and of about 200 scientific papers^[2]

Awards

• 1976 - 78 Exhibition - Senior Scholarship at King's College, Cambridge University
• 1978 - 79 Prizes based on performance in undergraduate (Tripos) exams
• 1981 - 82 IBM Predoctoral Fellowship
• 1983 - 86 Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows
• 1987 - 91 A. P. Sloan Fellowship
• 1988 - Fellow of Ashdown House (Graduate Dormitory), MIT
• 1988 Bergmann Memorial Research Award
• 1989 - Presidential Young Investigator Award
• 1990 Graduate Student Departmental Teaching Award
• 1990 -92 MIT Class of 1948 Professor (Career Development Chair)
• 1991 Edgerton Award for Junior Faculty Achievements at MIT
• 1992 The Beuchner Teaching Prize, Physics Department
• 1993 School of Science Prize in Graduate Teaching
• 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

External link(s)

• His homepage on the MIT website
• His homepage on the NECSI website
• his course on Statistical Mechanics at MIT Open CourseWare

References

1. ^ Mehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi, and Yi-Cheng Zhang, Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 58, 889 - 892 (1986). APS
2. ^ Mehran Kardar's Publications

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