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-ZhangMehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi, and Yi-Cheng Zhang, Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 58, 889 - 892 (1986). ) 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

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......
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