Professor
Mehran Kardar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
2009
Professor of Physics. Made important advances in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanical theory. Contributed to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation which has acquired paradigmatic status for non-equilibrium systems and non-linear dynamics. Other significant research includes work on random systems with quenched impurities, Casimir forces, polyampholytes, and knots in proteins.
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