Mehran Kardar | |
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| Born | August 1957 (age 69) |
| Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA, MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Known for | Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical physics |
| Nihat Berker | |
Mehran Kardar (Persian: مهران کاردر; born August 1957) is an Iranian-American physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute (USA). He received his B.A. in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1979, and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 1983. Kardar is particularly known for the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation in theoretical physics, which has been named after him and his two coauthors: the Nobel Prize laureate Giorgio Parisi, and Yi-Cheng Zhang. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001.
His following courses are currently available on MIT OCW.
and of about 200 scientific papers
