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Name
  
Mehran Kardar


Role
  
Physicist

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Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979–1983)

Books
  
Statistical physics of particles, Statistical physics of fields

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

2018 John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Awarded to Mehran Kardar


Mehran Kardar (Persian: مهران کاردار‎‎) is an Iranian born physicist and 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 physics from Cambridge University, and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT. Kardar is particularly known for the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation in theoretical physics, which has been named after him and collaborators. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001.

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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
  • 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

    • Courses at MIT OpenCourseWare

    His following courses are currently available on MIT OCW.

  • Statistical Physics in Biology
  • Statistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles
  • Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Physics of Fields

    • References

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