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| Mehran Kardar | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mehran Kardar |
| Birth date | 1957 |
| Birth place | Tehran, Iran |
| Fields | Physics, Statistical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics |
| Workplaces | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerome Friedman |
| Known for | Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation, statistical mechanics, Kardar–Zhang models |
Mehran Kardar Mehran Kardar is an Iranian-American physicist known for foundational work in statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics, and stochastic processes. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with influential contributions including the formulation of the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation and textbooks used across physics departments globally. Kardar's career spans research, teaching, and service in institutions such as the American Physical Society and collaborations with researchers at places like Bell Labs and Harvard University.
Kardar was born in Tehran and emigrated to the United States for higher education, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for undergraduate and graduate studies. At MIT he worked under advisors including Jerome Friedman and interacted with scholars from Condensed Matter Theory groups, engaging with contemporaries connected to the Institute for Advanced Study and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. His doctoral work situates him among alumni who have associations with institutions such as Princeton University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and Harvard University.
Kardar joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held appointments in what are closely linked with the Department of Physics (MIT), the Center for Theoretical Physics, and interdisciplinary initiatives collaborating with researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. He has taught courses that align with curricula at universities like Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Columbia University. Kardar has been an invited speaker at conferences organized by the American Physical Society, European Physical Society, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, and the Royal Society.
Kardar is best known for co-developing the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation with Giovanni Parisi and Yi-Cheng Zhang, a central result in the theory of dynamic scaling of growing interfaces and nonequilibrium phenomena studied alongside work from groups at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, and Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems. His research spans analyses of disordered systems connected to the replica trick methods of Giorgio Parisi, exact solutions related to the Bethe ansatz, and connections to the stochastic heat equation and directed polymers in random media. Kardar's work interfaces with mathematical frameworks used by researchers at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford, and has implications for experiments in groups at Bell Labs, IBM Research, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He developed theoretical tools applied to topics investigated by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the Max Planck Society, including scaling relations analogous to those in studies by Kenneth Wilson and renormalization techniques contemporaneous with work at the CERN. Collaborations and citations link his research to advances by scholars at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University, Tokyo University, and Seoul National University.
Kardar authored influential papers in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review E, Journal of Statistical Physics, and Communications in Mathematical Physics. He is the author of the graduate textbook "Statistical Physics of Fields", used alongside works by Lev Landau, Eugene Lifshitz, Philip Anderson, and Michael Fisher. His publications include collaborations with researchers affiliated with Princeton University, Yale University, Brown University, and the University of Minnesota. Selected articles appear in volumes edited by editors from the American Institute of Physics and published in proceedings of meetings held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the International School for Advanced Studies.
Kardar's recognitions include fellowships and honors from organizations such as the American Physical Society, scholarly visits at the Institute for Advanced Study, and invitations to deliver named lectures at institutions like Princeton University and the University of Cambridge. His work has been cited in prize-winning research connected to laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics and influenced awardees recognized by the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the Max Planck Society. He has received funding and support from agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
Kardar has participated in academic communities spanning Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and international research hubs such as Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, and Tokyo. His collaborations connect him to scholars with appointments at MIT, Harvard University, Princeton University, and research centers like the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Category:American physicists Category:Iranian physicists Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty