- Name: Afshin Montakhab
- Place of
birth: Shiraz , Iran
- Date of birth: June 11, 1967
- Education:
- B.Sc Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1990
- Ph.D Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 1997
- Current position:
- Assistant Professor , Shiraz University , 2000-Present
- Lecturer , UCSB, 1997-1999
- Research interests:
- Self-Organized Criticality
- Dynamical Systems
- Dynamic Critical Phenomena
- Nonequilibrium Phyiscs
- Teaching interests:
- Statistical Mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Relativity
- Recent refereed publications:
- 1. A.Montakhab, J.M. Carlson , J.Levy, " Mode-locking Hysteresis in
global models of CDW's " PRB, 50, 11227(1994)
- 2. A.Montakhab, J.M Levy, "Spatiotemproal Behavior in j4 model of lattice dynamics"...PRE 56 (1997)
- 3. A.Montakhab, J.M. Carlson, "Avalanches and local Equilibrium in SOC ,
"PRE 58, 5608 (1998)
- Honors, memberships and other activities:
- American Physical Society , 1994-1998
- Department of Education , Condensed Matter fellow, 1990-1992
- B.Sc with departmental honors and magna cum laude, UCLA,1990
- Iranian physics society 2001- present
- Contact information:
-
Address: Department of Physics, College of science, 71454, Iran
- Tel: 0711-2224609
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Email: montakhab@physics.susc.ac.ir
