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.
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.
Main area of work
Granular media
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- Complex systems
- Glassy dynamics in soft matter
- Optimisation problems
- Statistical physics in an interdisciplinary context, eg economics /biology/ astrophysics
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Cognitive sciences
Significant recent publications:
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‘Glassy dynamics in granular compaction: sand on random graphs’, Jo-
hannes Berg and Anita Mehta, Physical Review E65, 031305 (2002).
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’Epitaxial Growth of Thin Films – a Statistical Mechanical Model’, Anita
Mehta and R. A. Cowley, J. Phys. - Cond. Mat. (2002) 14, 17, (6 May
2002), 4385-4392 .
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’Why shape matters in granular compaction’, 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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