Professional Experience
Activities
- Reviewer for the Mathematical Reviews, since January 15, 2004.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the
2nd Iranian Geometry-Topology Conference.
Amir-Kabir University, Tehran, Feb. 3-5, 2003.
- Co-editor of Shahyad,
a festschrift in honor of S. Shahshahani's 60th birthday, May 31, 2002.
- Member of the Editorial Board of
Nashr-e Riazi, an expositoray math journal in Persian. Tehran, 2002-2005.
- Member of the Dynamical Systems Research Group, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, 1992-94.
Honors
- IPM Research Grant, Tehran, Spring 2001.
- IPM Resident Researcher and Research Grant, Tehran, Fall 2000.
- Faculty Fellowship (as graduate student), Columbia University, 1994-1998.
- Top-three awards from several undergraduate mathematical contests.
Conferences & Visits
- CMI Summer School on Ricci Flow, 3-manifolds and
Geometry, June 20 - July 15, 2005.
MSRI, Berkeley, CA. On Clay Institute support.
- Summer School on Geometry and Topology of 3-Manifolds,
June 6-17, 2005. The Abdus
Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- CMI Summer School on Floer Homology, Gauge Theory, and Low
Dimensional Topology, June 6-26, 2004. Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest,
Hungary. On Clay Institute support.
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Visiting the
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),
Trieste, Italy; March-August 2004.
- Visiting
Laboratoire de Mathématiques,
Université Paris-Sud , Orsay, France; January 10-24, 2003.
- Second
Russian-German Geometry Meeting , June 16-23, 2002. Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
- Mathematical Challenges of the
twenty-first century, August 7-12, 2000. University of California, Los Angeles. On an
NSF travel grant.
- A Fiftieth anniversary of the C.L.E. Moore
Postdoctoral Instructorship in Mathematics, October 9-11, 1999. MIT, Cambridge, MA.
- Conference on Geometry and
Topology, May 14-16, 1999. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the Journal of Differential Geometry in
honor of Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch and Singer.
- Marston Morse Conference on
Gauge Theory and Symplectic Geometry, March 29, 30 and April 1, 1999. Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ.
Conference organizers: Robert MacPherson, IAS; Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó,
Princeton University.
- Current Developments in Mathematics, November 1998. American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA.
- Geometry Festival (in honor of James
Simons), March 1998. SUNY at Stony Brook, NY.
- Prospects in Mathematics (the 250th anniversary of Princeton University),
March 1996. Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ.
- Conference on Seiberg-Witten invariants, January 1995, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
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Visiting the International Centre for Theoretical
Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. August 1994.
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School on Dynamical Systems, May 25-June 5, 1992.
ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- Workshop on Dynamical Systems, March 2-5, 1992. IPM, Tehran, Iran.
- Annual Iranian Mathematics Conferences between the years 1989-1993.
Computer Skills
- Well acquainted with Mac-OS, UNIX, Windows and MS-DOS.
- Working knowledge of LaTeX, MS Word, Excel, Emacs, Xfig and Mathematica.
- Familiarity with various Adobe and Macromedia softwares.
- Rudiments of programming.
Languages
Persian (native), English (fluent), French (good;
DELF: A2),
Italian (fair), Arabic (good in reading), German (fair in reading),
HTML (good), Java (fair).
Last updated
Monday, June 13, 2005.
Pedram Safari, psafari@ictp.it.