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'''Anita Mehta''' (born [[Calcutta]]) is an Indian [[physicist]]. She<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/anita-mehta|title=Anita Mehta {{!}} Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics|website=www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-14}}</ref> is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/visiting-professorships|title=Visiting Professorships {{!}} The Leverhulme Trust|website=www.leverhulme.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/people/anita-mehta/|title=Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford|website=www.some.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref>.
'''Dr. Anita Mehta,''' born in [[Calcutta]], India, is a [[physicist]] and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/anita-mehta|title=Anita Mehta {{!}} Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics|website=www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/visiting-professorships|title=Visiting Professorships {{!}} The Leverhulme Trust|website=www.leverhulme.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/people/anita-mehta/|title=Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford|website=www.some.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref>


==Education and Work Experience==
==Life==
After her B.Sc. in Physics from [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/alumni/rhodes-scholar-database/|title=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> to [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]], [[Oxford University]], graduating with an MA and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://oxford.academia.edu/AnitaMehta|title=Anita Mehta {{!}} University of Oxford - Academia.edu|website=oxford.academia.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref>. She then did postdoctoral work at [[IBM]], following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir [[Sam Edwards (physicist)|Sam Edwards]], when she pioneered the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news|title=At Cambridge, work’s in progress|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080112/jsp/calcutta/story_8773586.jsp|work=Calcutta Telegraph|date=12 January 2008}}</ref> Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anita-mehta|title=Anita Mehta|date=2012-03-16|work=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|access-date=2018-10-26|language=en}}</ref> in 2006 and in 2007, awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2007&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref>. Mehta has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Leipzig, the Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/peopleStadler.html|title=Bioinformatics Leipzig - People|website=www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> among others.<ref name=":0" />
After her B.Sc. in Physics from [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/alumni/rhodes-scholar-database/|title=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> to [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]], [[Oxford University]], graduating with an M.A. and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://oxford.academia.edu/AnitaMehta|title=Anita Mehta {{!}} University of Oxford - Academia.edu|website=oxford.academia.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref>
She then did postdoctoral work at [[IBM]], following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir [[Sam Edwards (physicist)|Sam Edwards]], when she worked in the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news|title=At Cambridge, work's in progress|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080112/jsp/calcutta/story_8773586.jsp|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150417213342/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080112/jsp/calcutta/story_8773586.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2015|work=Calcutta Telegraph|date=12 January 2008}}</ref> Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anita-mehta|title=Anita Mehta|date=2012-03-16|work=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|access-date=2018-10-26|language=en}}</ref> in 2007-8 and was awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2007&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> Mehta has been a visiting professor at the [[University of Rome Tor Vergata|University of Rome]], the [[Leipzig University|University of Leipzig]], the [[Institute of Theoretical Physics, Saclay|Institut de Physique Theorique]] (France) and the [[Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/peopleStadler.html|title=Bioinformatics Leipzig - People|website=www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26|archive-date=10 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010053022/http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/peopleStadler.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> among others.<ref name=":0" /> She has been an Academic Visitor of [[Somerville College, Oxford]].

Mehta had a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the [[University of Oxford]] as faculty of the Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics until 2019. There, she works on modelling speech perception and the dynamical evolution of language and grammatical forms.


==Works==
==Works==
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*Her main areas of work include granular media, complex systems, glassy dynamics in soft matter, optimization, statistical physics in an interdisciplinary context, and nonlinear dynamics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=anita mehta |url=https://people.bose.res.in/faculty/fac_new/anitamehta.html.20102008 |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=people.bose.res.in}}</ref>
*Mehta has written 3 books and 142 papers published.
*Anita Mehta {{cite book|title=Granular Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BupzzGcmKdwC|date=28 June 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-46531-1}}
*Anita Mehta {{cite book|title=Granular Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BupzzGcmKdwC|date=28 June 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-46531-1}}
*Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 {{ISBN|978-1-4612-4290-1}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387940656|title=Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach {{!}} Anita Mehta {{!}} Springer|language=en}}</ref>
*Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 {{ISBN|978-1-4612-4290-1}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387940656|title=Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach {{!}} Anita Mehta {{!}} Springer|language=en}}</ref>

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Latest revision as of 13:25, 6 September 2024

Anita Mehta
Born
Calcutta
NationalityIndian
Alma materOxford University
Known forGranular Physics
AwardsRhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford, Radcliffe Institute

Dr. Anita Mehta, born in Calcutta, India, is a physicist and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3]

Education and Work Experience

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After her B.Sc. in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta, Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman Rhodes Scholar[4] to St Catherine's College, Oxford University, graduating with an M.A. and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics.[5]

She then did postdoctoral work at IBM, following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, when she worked in the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.[6] Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard[7] in 2007-8 and was awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society.[8] Mehta has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Leipzig, the Institut de Physique Theorique (France) and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences,[9] among others.[5] She has been an Academic Visitor of Somerville College, Oxford.

Mehta had a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford as faculty of the Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics until 2019. There, she works on modelling speech perception and the dynamical evolution of language and grammatical forms.

Works

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  • Her main areas of work include granular media, complex systems, glassy dynamics in soft matter, optimization, statistical physics in an interdisciplinary context, and nonlinear dynamics.[10]
  • Mehta has written 3 books and 142 papers published.
  • Anita Mehta Granular Physics. Cambridge University Press. 28 June 2007. ISBN 978-1-139-46531-1.
  • Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 ISBN 978-1-4612-4290-1[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Anita Mehta | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Visiting Professorships | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Anita Mehta | University of Oxford - Academia.edu". oxford.academia.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  6. ^ "At Cambridge, work's in progress". Calcutta Telegraph. 12 January 2008. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Anita Mehta". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  8. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Bioinformatics Leipzig - People". www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  10. ^ "anita mehta". people.bose.res.in. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  11. ^ Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach | Anita Mehta | Springer.
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