Saeed Zakeri's CV

Curriculum Vitae of Saeed Zakeri
Department of Mathematics, Queens College and Graduate Center of CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, New York 11367
Phone: (718) 997-5843
Fax: (718) 997-5861
saeed.zakeri@qc.cuny.edu
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri

Academic Background.

(2006- ) Joint Appointment, Graduate Center of CUNY
(2004- ) Assistant Professor, Queens College of CUNY
(2002-2004) Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University
(1999-2002) Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
(1994-1999) Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stony Brook University
Thesis: Dynamics of Cubic Siegel Polynomials
Thesis Adviser: John W. Milnor
(1990-1992) M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Tehran
Thesis: Dynamics of Singular Holomorphic Foliations on CP(2)
Thesis Adviser: S. Shahshahani
(1986-1990) B.Sc. in Electronic Communication Engineering, University of Tehran
Thesis: On Generalized Prey-Predator Models
Thesis Adviser: C. Lucas

Fields of Interest.

Dynamical Systems, especially Holomorphic Dynamics
Complex Analysis, Teichmuller Theory and Quasiconformal Mappings
Hyperbolic Geometry and Kleinian Groups
Foliations and Laminations

Awards and Honors.

(2007) PSC-CUNY research grant
(2005) PSC-CUNY research grant
(1999 and 2003) NSF grant
(1998) James Simons Prize for excellence in research, Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Stony Brook
(1995) Award of Honor for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Stony Brook
(1992) Ranked first in the nationwide fellowship examination for Ph.D. in Mathematics, Iran
(1990) Ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination for M.Sc. in Mathematics, Iran
(1989 and 1990) Prize of the Iranian Mathematical Society National Mathematics Competition

Publications.

On boundary homeomorphisms of trans-quasiconformal maps of the disk, 2007, to appear in Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn.
On biaccessible points of the Mandelbrot set, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006) 2239-2250.
David maps and Hausdorff dimension, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. 29 (2004) 121-138
(with C. Petersen) On the Julia set of a typical quadratic polynomial with a Siegel disk, Annals of Math. 159 (2004) 1-52
External rays and the real slice of the Mandelbrot set, Ergod. Th. & Dyn. Sys. 23 (2003) 637-660.
Old and New on quadratic Siegel disks, in "Shahyad," a volume dedicated to Siavash Shahshahani on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Sharif University of Technology Press, Tehran, 2002.
Dynamics of singular holomorphic foliations on the complex projective plane, in ``Laminations and Foliations in Dynamics, Geometry and Topology,'' Contemporary Mathematics 269, Amer. Math. Soc., 2001.
(with M. Yampolsky) Mating Siegel quadratic polynomials, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001) 25-78.
Dynamics of cubic Siegel polynomials, Commun. Math. Phys. 206 (1999) 185-233.
Biaccessibility in quadratic Julia sets, Ergod. Th. & Dyn. Sys. 20 (2000) 1859-1883.
(with D. Schleicher) On biaccessible points in the Julia set of a Cremer quadratic polynomial, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000) 933-937.
On critical points of proper holomorphic maps on the unit disk, Bull. London Math. Soc., 30 (1998) 62-66.
(with C. Lucas) A generalized prey-predator model: Asymptotic behavior and catastrophes, Proceedings of the 1st Iranian Conference in Applied Mathematics, Amir-Kabir University, 1989.

Books, Expository and Review Articles.

(with C. Petersen) Complex Dynamics, Irrational Rotations, and Surgery, research monograph, in progress.
A Course in Complex Analysis, graduate-level textbook, manuscript in preparation.
Review of Steven Krantz's Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint, Nashr-i Riazi, 12 (2002) 71-76.
Shahshahani's work in dynamical systems, in "Shahyad," a volume dedicated to Siavash Shahshahani on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Sharif University of Technology Press, Tehran, 2002.
(with M. Zeinalian) When ellipses look like circles: The Measurable Riemann Mapping Theorem, Nashr-i Riazi, 8 (1996) 5-14.

Selected Invited Talks.

(April 2006) AMS Meeting, Durham, New Hampshire.
(May 2005) Complex Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, CUNY.
(January 2003) Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
(November 2002) Dynamical Systems Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Boston University.
(October 2002) Symplectic Topology and Dynamics Seminar, Courant Institute, NYU.
(March 2002) Complex Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, CUNY.
(October 2001) American Mathematical Society meeting, Williams College, Williamstown.
(July 2001) First joint international American Mathematical Society and Societe Mathematique de France meeting, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.
(March 2001) Around Dynamics: An international conference in honor of the 70th birthday of John W. Milnor, Stony Brook.
(March 2000) Dynamics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University.
(March 2000) Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting, Gainesville, University of Florida.
(December 1998) Dynamics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University.
(November 1997) Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Yale University.
(September 1997) Colloquium, Faculty of Mathematics, Technical University of Münich, Germany.
(August 1997) Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran.

Teaching Experience.

Graduate level courses in holomorphic dynamics, quasiconformal theory, and complex analysis
Minicourses on geometric complex analysis, Nevanlinna theory, holomorphic foliations, and Riemann surface laminations
Undergraduate courses on geometry and topology, real analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis
Training sessions for undergraduate national mathematics contests
Single and multivariable calculus, honors calculus, linear algebra

Other Professional Activities.

(2000- ) Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
(2006- ) Co-organizer of the weekly Complex Analysis/Dynamics seminar at the Graduate Center of CUNY
(2002-2004) Organizer of the weekly Dynamical Systems seminar at Stony Brook
(2001-2002) Undergraduate adviser for mathematics majors at UPenn

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