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) 997-5800
Fax: (718) 997-5861
saeed.zakeri@qc.cuny.edu
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri
Academic Background.
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(2010- ) Associate Professor, Queens College of CUNY
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(2006- ) Joint Appointment, Graduate Center of CUNY
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(2004-2009) Assistant Professor, Queens College of CUNY
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(2002-2004) Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University
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(1999-2002) Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
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(1994-1999) Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stony Brook University
Thesis: Dynamics of Cubic Siegel Polynomials
Thesis Adviser: John W. Milnor
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(1990-1992) M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Tehran
Thesis: Dynamics of Singular Holomorphic Foliations on CP(2)
Thesis Adviser: S. Shahshahani
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(1986-1990) B.Sc. in Electronic Communication Engineering, University of Tehran
Thesis: On Generalized Prey-Predator Models
Thesis Adviser: C. Lucas
Fields of Interest.
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Dynamical Systems, especially Holomorphic Dynamics
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Complex Analysis, Quasiconformal Mappings and Teichmuller Theory
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Hyperbolic Geometry and Kleinian Groups
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Foliations and Laminations
Awards and Honors.
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(Spring 2015) Visiting researcher, IMS at Stony Brook
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(2005- ) PSC-CUNY research grant
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(1999 and 2003) NSF grant
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(1998) James Simons Prize for excellence in research, Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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(1995) Award of Honor for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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(1992) Ranked first in the nationwide fellowship examination for Ph.D. in Mathematics, Iran
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(1990) Ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination for M.Sc. in Mathematics, Iran
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(1989 and 1990) Prize of the Iranian Mathematical Society National Mathematics Competition
Books.
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Rotation Sets and Complex Dynamics, Lecture Notes in Mathematics vol. 2214, Springer, 2018.
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A Course in Complex Analysis, graduate-level textbook (13 chapters/441 pages/91 illustrations), 2018, to appear.
Papers.
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(With C. Petersen)
On the correspondence of external rays under renormalization, 2018.
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(With C. Petersen)
On Combinatorial types of periodic orbits of the map $x \to kx \ (\text{mod} \ {\mathbb Z})$. Part I: Realization, arXiv:1712.04506, submitted for publication.
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Conformal fitness and uniformization of holomorphically moving disks, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (2016) 1023-1049.
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(With V. Erlandsson) A discreteness criterion for groups containing
screw translations, Contemp Math. 639 (2015) 235-242.
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(With V. Erlandsson)On Margulis cusps of hyperbolic 4-manifolds,
Geometriae Dedicata 174 (2015) 75-103.
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On Siegel disks of a class of entire maps, Duke Math. Journal 152 (2010) 481-532.
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On boundary homeomorphisms of trans-quasiconformal maps of the disk,
Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. 33 (2008) 241-260
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On biaccessible points of the Mandelbrot set, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
134 (2006) 2239-2250.
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David maps and Hausdorff dimension, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. 29
(2004) 121-138
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(with C. Petersen) On the Julia set of a typical quadratic
polynomial with a Siegel disk, Annals of Math. 159 (2004) 1-52
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External rays and the real slice of the Mandelbrot set, Ergod. Th. & Dyn. Sys. 23 (2003) 637-660.
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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.
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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.
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(with M. Yampolsky) Mating Siegel quadratic polynomials,
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001) 25-78.
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Dynamics of cubic Siegel polynomials,
Commun. Math. Phys. 206 (1999) 185-233.
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Biaccessibility in quadratic Julia sets, Ergod. Th. &
Dyn. Sys. 20 (2000) 1859-1883.
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(with D. Schleicher) On biaccessible points in the Julia set of a
Cremer quadratic polynomial, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128
(2000) 933-937.
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On critical points of proper holomorphic maps on the unit disk, Bull. London Math. Soc., 30 (1998) 62-66.
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(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.
Expository and Review Articles.
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Review of Steven Krantz's Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint,
Nashr-i Riazi, 12 (2002) 71-76.
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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.
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(with M. Zeinalian) When ellipses look like circles: The Measurable Riemann Mapping Theorem, Nashr-i Riazi, 8 (1996) 5-14.
Selected Invited Talks.
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(August 2018) International conference on orthogonal polynomials and holomorphic dynamics, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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(March 2017) GC Fest, Graduate Center of CUNY.
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(May/June 2016) North American Workshop in Holomorphic Dynamics: An international conference in honor of the 85th birthday of John W. Milnor, Cancun, Mexico.
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(March 2016) AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, Stony Brook University.
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(November 2015) Topics in complex dynamics, University of Barcelona, Spain.
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(June 2015) Joint International AMS/EMS/SPM Meeting,
University of Porto, Portugal.
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(April 2015) Dynamical Systems seminar, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook
University.
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(October 2014) Dynamical Systems seminar, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook
University.
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(May 2014) Workshop on Holomorphic Dynamics: Maps with an Indifferent Fixed Point, Nanjing University, China.
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(April 2014) Complex Analysis, Dynamics and Geometry seminar, University of Michigan.
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(October 2013) Topological and Combinatorial Problems in One-dimensional Complex Dynamics,
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
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(May 2011) Conference on Holomorphic and Hamiltonian Dynamical systems, Porquerolles, France.
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(July 2009) Cantor Bouquets in Hedgehogs and Transcendental Iteration, Toulouse, France.
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(June 2008) Aspects of Transcendental Dynamics, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
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(April 2008) Dynamical Systems seminar, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook
University.
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(March 2007) Dynamical Systems seminar, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook
University.
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(April 2006) AMS Meeting, Durham, New Hampshire.
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(May 2005) Complex Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, CUNY.
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(January 2003) Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of
Pennsylvania.
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(November 2002) Dynamical Systems Seminar, Department of Mathematics,
Boston University.
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(October 2002) Symplectic Topology and Dynamics Seminar, Courant Institute,
NYU.
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(March 2002) Complex Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, CUNY.
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(October 2001) American Mathematical Society meeting, Williams College, Williamstown.
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(July 2001) First joint international American Mathematical Society and Societe Mathematique de France meeting, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.
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(March 2001) Around Dynamics: An international conference in honor of the 70th birthday of John W. Milnor, Stony Brook.
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(March 2000) Dynamics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Cornell
University.
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(March 2000) Midwest Dynamical Systems Meeting, Gainesville, University of Florida.
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(December 1998) Dynamics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Cornell
University.
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(November 1997) Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Yale University.
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(September 1997) Colloquium, Faculty of Mathematics, Technical
University of Münich, Germany.
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(August 1997) Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and
Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
Teaching Experience.
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Graduate level courses in holomorphic dynamics, quasiconformal theory,
real analysis, and complex analysis
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Minicourses on geometric complex analysis, Nevanlinna theory,
holomorphic foliations, and Riemann surface laminations
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Undergraduate courses on geometry and topology, real analysis, ordinary and
partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis
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Training sessions for undergraduate national mathematics contests
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Single and multivariable calculus, honors calculus, linear algebra
Service and Other Professional Activities.
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(2000- ) Refereed papers for various journals, including Acta
Mathematica, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Duke Mathematical Journal, Ergodic Theory and
Dynamical Systems and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.
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(2000- ) Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
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(2007 and 2008) Member of the reviewing panel for the PSC-CUNY grant proposals in
mathematics.
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(2006- ) Member of the curriculum committee, Department of Mathematics,
Queens College of CUNY.
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(2006- ) Co-organizer of the weekly Complex Analysis/Dynamics seminar at
the Graduate Center of CUNY
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(2002-2004) Organizer of the weekly Dynamical Systems seminar at Stony Brook
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(2001-2002) Undergraduate adviser for mathematics majors at UPenn
Saeed Zakeri