Sohrab Rahvar,
Professor of Physics at Sharif University of Technology.
 

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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