Siavash Mirshams Shahshahani (
Persian
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: سیاوش میرشمس شهشهانی) (born 1942) is an Iranian
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
. He is a professor of mathematics and head of Mathematical Sciences Department at
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering, ...
. He headed up the IRNIC registry for the
.ir
.ir is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iran. It is managed by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.
Second-level domains
* .ir – public
* .ac.ir – academic (tertiary education and research est ...
ccTLD until his retirement from that position in late 2008. He has also served as a director of
APTLD (the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) between 2007 and his retirement from that position in February 2009.
Education
Shahshahani completed his PhD under the supervision of
Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics facult ...
at the
University of California at Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...
in 1969. He has since devoted a substantial part of his career to mathematical education.
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External links
Siavash ShahshahaniHomepage at Mathematics Department of Sharif University of Technology
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Siavash Shahshahaniat ICANNWiki
APTLD homepage
21st-century Iranian mathematicians
Sharif University of Technology faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
1942 births
Living people
Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame recipients in Mathematics and Physics
20th-century Iranian mathematicians
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