Mehran Kardar ( fa, مهران کاردار; August 1957) is an Iranian born physicist and professor of physics at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT), and co-faculty at the

New England Complex Systems Institute The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent American research institution and think tank dedicated to advancing analytics and its application to the challenges of society, and the interaction of complex systems with the envi ...

(USA). He received his B.A. in physics from the

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in 1979, and obtained his Ph.D. from

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

in 1983. Kardar is particularly known for the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation in

theoretical physics Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experim ...

, which has been named after him and collaborators. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001.

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 The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presiden ...

*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 *2007 Fellow, American Physical Society *2008 School of Science Prize in Graduate Teaching *2009 APS Outstanding Referee *2009 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences *2011 Francis Freidman Professor, Physics Department, MIT *2018 Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences *2020 Simons Fellow in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Courses at MIT OpenCourseWare

His following courses are currently available on MIT OCW.
Statistical Physics in BiologyStatistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles

Bibliography

Books

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Statistical Physics of Particles ''Statistical Physics of Particles'' and ''Statistical Physics of Fields'' are a two-volume series of textbooks by Mehran Kardar. Each book is based on a semester-long course taught by Kardar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They cover ...

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References

External links

His homepage on the MIT website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kardar, Mehran 1957 births Iranian physicists MIT Department of Physics alumni Iranian emigrants to the United States Harvard Fellows Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Iranian expatriate academics New England Complex Systems Institute Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society