Sohrab
Rahvar,
Professor of Physics at Sharif University of Technology.
Membership:
1.
Associate member of Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),
2.
Member of American Physical Society
3.
Member of Internal Astronomical Union (IAU), since 2006
4.
Member of Physical Society of Iran (PSI)
5.
Member of an international
collaboration for searching extrasolar planets
6.
Member of Astronomical Society of Iran (ASI)
Interest of Research
:
1.
Gravitational
Lensing and Microlensing- Extra solar planets
2.
Modified
gravity models: Alternative to Dark Energy- Dark Matter and Alternative Models
We have weekly cosmology seminars in our
group. All the talks announce in the web page of cosmology group.
List of publications:
1. SPIRES
list
2. ADS
list
3. arXiv
Books: Editor of 11th Regional
Conference in Math. Phyiscs.
Teaching:
Teaching Program of
the Semester (2010-2011 Autumn):
1.
Cosmology
I (graduate), Sunday and Tuesdays, 16:30 -18:30, room 517. For lecture notes
you can refer to Sharif
Courseware. Everybody can download the materials of my lectures
2. Analytical Mechanics I (undergraduate), Sunday and Tuesday, 8:30 –10:30. For lecture notes you can refer to Sharif Courseware.
Everybody can download the materials of my lectures
Teaching Program of
this Semester (2010-2011 Spring):
1.
Cosmology
II (graduate), Saturday and Monday, 8:00-10:30, room 517. For lecture notes you
can refer to Sharif
Courseware. Everybody can download the materials of my lectures
2. Analytical Mechanics II (undergraduate), Sunday and Tuesday , 8:00 –10:00, Ebn e Sina 2 auditorium. For lecture notes you can refer to Sharif Courseware.
Everybody can download the materials of my lectures
Lecture
Notes from the Pervious semesters:
1. Cosmology I
2. Dark
Energy and Alternative Theories (graduate students, autumn 2007)
3. Cosmology (for B.Sc
students, Spring 2007)
4. Structure Formation in the
Universe (for PhD students, autumn 2006)
5. General Relativity (for M.Sc students, autumn 2006)
My Former PhD Students:
1. Mohammad
Sedegh Movahed
(Assistant Prof. at Shahid Beheshti
University-Tehran)
2. Reza Saffari (Assistant Prof. at
University of Gilan-Rasht)
3.
Hossein Haghi (Postdoc at IASBS-Zanjan)
4. Mola Malekjani ( Assistant Prof at
University of Abou-Ali-Sina-Hamedan)
5. Farhang Habibi (Hidden
Baryonic Matter, co-supervisor Marc Moniez from
LAL/CNRS)
6. Shant Baghram (Modified
gravity & Dark Energy)
7. Sedigheh Sadjadi (
Gravitational Microlensing)
Art Activity: Playing
Violin
Address:
Sohrab Rahvar
Department of
Physics
Sharif University of Technology
P. O. Box:
11365-9161
Tehran, Iran
e-mail: rahvar@sharif.edu
Tel:
(+98) -21 616 45 31, Fax: +98 21 6602 2711