Educational Background:
M. A. and D. Phil. In Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
Professional Background:
A
Rhodes scholar, I have held research associateships in IBM New York,
the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge and the IRC in Advanced Materials,
Birmingham, before returning to India in 1995. I was an EPSRC Visiting
Fellow at the University of Oxford in 1998, and a Radcliffe Fellow at
Harvard University in 2007. I have
held many long-term visiting Professorships, notably
at the Service de Physique Theorique, Saclay. I am a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Important awards and fellowship of academies:
Rhodes Scholarship, 1978
Member of Editorial Board of Granular Matter, JSTAT and CHAOS.
Stree Shakti award for Woman Scientist of the Year 2004
Radcliffe Fellowships to Harvard, 2006-7.
Fellowship of American Physical Society, 2007
Main area of work
Granular media
Complex systems
Glassy dynamics in soft matter
Optimisation problems
Statistical physics in an interdisciplinary context, eg economics /biology/ astrophysics
Nonlinear dynamics
Cognitive sciences
Significant publications:
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Granular physics, by Anita Mehta, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)
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"Novel temporal behaviour of a nonlinear
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dynamical system - the completely inelastic bouncing ball", Anita Mehta and J M Luck, Physical Review Letters 65, 393 (1990)
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"Vibrated powders - a microscopic approach", Anita Mehta and G C Barker, Physical Review Letters 67, 394 (1991)
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"Size segregation mechanisms", G C Barker and Anita Mehta, Nature 364,486 (1993)
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"Dynamics of sandpiles: physical mechanisms, coupled stochastic equations and alternative universality classes", Anita Mehta, J M Luck and R J Needs, Physical Review E53, 92 (1996)
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"Models of competitive learning: complex dynamics, intermittent con-
versions and oscillatory coarsening", Anita Mehta and Jean-Marc Luck,
Physical Review E 60, 5218-5230 (1999)
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'A two-species model for aeolian sand ripples' Rebecca Hoyle and Anita
Mehta Physical Review Letters, 83, 5170 (1999)
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'Anomalous aging phenomena caused by drift velocities', J. M. Luck
and Anita Mehta, Europhysics Letters, 54, 573-580, (2001).
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'On random graphs and the statistical mechanics of granular matter'
by Johannes Berg and Anita Mehta, Europhysics Letters, 56, 784-791,
(2001).
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"Why shape matters in granular compation",Anita Mehta and J M Luck, J. Phys. A. - Math. Gen. (2003) 36, (June 2003), L365-L372
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"Cooperativity in sandpiles: statistics of bridge geometries", Anita Mehta,
G. C. Barker and J. M. Luck, JSTAT P10014, (2004).
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"A deterministic model of competitive cluster growth : glassy dynamics, metastability and pattern formation", J.M. Luck and A. Mehta,
European Physics Journal B 44 79-92 (2005).
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'Heterogeneities in granular dynamics’, A. Mehta, G. C. Barker and J.
M. Luck, Proceedings of National Academy
of Sciences, 105,24,8244-8249 (2008).
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