User:DrRezaZomorrodian

My name is Dr. Reza Zomorrodian, I was born in Isfahan Iran in the forties.

After finishing elementary, middle school and high school, I got accepted in the University of Isfahan in which after a couple of years studying Mathematics/Physics, I chose Mathematics/Statistics for my BS. Degree 1969. Because I had high average of 3.72 QPA on my Bachelor Degree the university of Isfahan decided to hire me to teach as an Instructor 9 months of each year in the same university. Meantime I had to spend the other three months of two summers in the Armey and finish my required Military service while I was teaching. At the end of which according to Armey I got the second degree Armey officer. During the seventies in 1972 to be exact, I got accepted in the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In the Fall of 1972 with a great joy and excitement, I traveled to the United States and after two months of living in Champaign Illinois and getting acquainted with the American traditions, living with I started taking several courses such as Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Real and Complex Analysis, Vector and Tensor Analysis, Partial and ordinary differential equations and Topology. After finishing my MS degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana as well as two years at SIU at Carbondale Illinois 1975-78, I started taking several courses toward my Ph.D. and then because I could not find an area of interest to finish my Ph.D. in that university, in 1979 my family and I moved to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and I started working under the Scottish mathematician name Professor A. M. Macbeath in the area of Fuchsian Groups and Nilpotent Automorphism Groups of Riemann Surfaces. I finished my PHD. in the end of 1983. In 1984 the University of Pittsburgh offered me an instructorship position for five years.

I started teaching in the same University as a Mathematics instructor until 1989. Additionally, during the same five years I also taught several undergraduate mathematics courses in the Community College of Allegheny County here in Pittsburgh. In 1989 I was given a position as an Assistant professor and then associate professor in Penn-State University until 1995. In the last 12 years I have learned about few programs called “Magma”, “Gap” and Maple and have been working for AMS, LMS and some other foreign journals writing and editing mathematical articles and learning all about designing computer sites, computer software and hardware. A dozen of my papers were published some important mathematical journals of United States, UK and India. I have been employed by University of Phoenix since Sept 1st 2008 teaching online undergraduate mathematics courses. I enjoy basketball, Cycling, walking, playing online card games and Golf  and going to movies. I would be glad to answer all your questions in due time. Regards, Professor Reza Zomorrodian