Mehran Kardar is a prominent Iran

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ian born physicist, full Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute

New England Complex Systems Institute

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. He received his B.A. in Cambridge University, and gained his Ph.D at MIT

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Mehran Kardar is particularly known for the KPZ equation

KPZ-Equation

The KPZ-equation is a non-linear, stochastic, partial differential equation. It describes the temporal change of the height h at place \vec x and time t...

 (Kardar-Parisi-Zhang) in theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

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, which has been named after him and collaborators. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 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

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
  Presidential Young Investigator Award
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• 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