

Biography
Educated at
- Tehran Univ., Iran,1950-1953;
- Univ. of Toronto, Canada 1958-1960;
- Univ. of Chicago, USA, 1960-1963;
- B. Sc. Physics, 1953;
- M.A., Physics 1960;
- Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1963.
Associate Fellow,
- Center for Theoritical Physics and Mathematics, AEOI, Tehran, 1986-to date;
- International Center for Theoritical Physics(ICTP), 1987-1993;
Teaching
- in High school in Tabriz, Iran, 1953-1956;
- Cartographic Organization of Iran, Tehran, 1956-1958;
Visiting Associate Professor,
- Dept. of Physics, Shiraz Univ., 1964-1971;
- Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of pennsylvania, 1968-1969;
- Birouni Observatory, Shiraz, Iran, 1971,
- Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran 1991.


Positions Held
Research, Associate, Dept. of Math., University of Chicago, summer, 1963
Lecturer, Dept. of Math., University of Newcastle on Tyne, 1968-1964
Associate Professor, Physics, Shiraz University, 1964-1970
Visiting Associate Professor, Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 1968-1969
Visiting Associate Professor, Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1970-1971
Professor of Physics, Shiraz University, 1971 to 1999
Chairman, Physics Department, Shiraz University, 1972-1974 and 1978-1980
Visiting Senior Researcher, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, 1975-1976
Member of the Council of Shiraz University, 1976-1979, 1989-1991
Visiting Scholar, Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, University of Chicago, 1984-1985
Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, 1991-1992
Associate fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, 1987-1993
Founding Director, Center for Research in Climate Change and Global Warming, IASBS, 2012
Gallery
a Gallery Events Prof. Sobouti attended throughout the recent years
Honors
Recipient of Medallion for Excellence in Research, Government of Iran, 1978
Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences, elected 1987
Fellow of The Academy of Sciences of Iran, elected 1990
Award of the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1995
TWAS 2000 Medal Lecturer in Physical Sciences, Tehran, October 2000
Khwarazmi Award. 2001
The Lasting Face in Science, Tehran, October 2001
Chair of Research in Physics, Fund for Research Support in Iran, 2007
TWAS Regional Office Prize for Scientific Institution Building in Central and south Asian Region, Bangalore, 2012
Allamah Tabtabaee Prize, as Distinguished Scientist, Tehran, 2013
Memberships
- Memberships and fellowships in societies and scientific organizations:
- Founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the Physical Society of Iran, 1983-1988, President, 1989-1991 and 1996-2000
- Founding member of the Astron. Soc. of Iran, 1987, President 1987-1993 and 1996-9
- Member of the American Astronomical Society, 1968-2002
- Member of the International Astronomical Union, Commissions 28, 35, 1969 present
- Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Board of Advisors, 1971-1976, Board of Editors 1983 -1990
- Iranian Journal of Physics, Board of Advisors, 1987 - present
- Member of the Third world Academy of Science, 1987 - present
- Member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, 1989 - present
- Member of the Scientific Council, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, appointed by UNESCO and IAEA, 1989-1992
- Member of Board of Trustees of The Regional Library of Science and Technology, appointed by the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education of Iran, 1991-1998
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Medical Sciences of Zanjan, 2004
- Member of Technical Advisory Committee of Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), 2004
- Member of the International Advisory Committee, Marcel Grossmann Meetings, a la Sapiensa-based (Rome, Italy) annual conference in Honor of Marcel Grossman, the mathematician who helped Einstein to formulate his General Relativity, 2006 - present
Publications
Fluorescent Scattering ( 1963 ) ,
CelestialFluidsmicellanuous ( 1964 ) ,
g & p modes ( 1997 ) ,
Perturbational-Variational ( 1978 ) ,
Stellar systems, Oscillations ( 1984 ) ,
Stellar magnetism ( 1987 ) ,
Liouville's equation ( 1989 ) ,
Dark matter & alternative grav ,
QM in Phase space ( 1984 ) ,
M5 supergiant ,
micellanuous ,
Persian Writings ,
Books
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Fluorescent Scattering ( 1963 )
- Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( I. Basic Theoretical Considerations ) Download
- Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( II. Coupling among Transitions ) Download
- Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( III. Formation of Lyman-Birge-Hopfield Bands of N2 In The Martian Armosphere ) Download
- Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( IV. Formation of Lyman-Birge-Hopfield Bands of N2 In The Terrestrial Armosphere ) Download
- Chandrasekhar's X-, Y-, And Related Functions Download
- Propagation of Localized Disturbances In Hydromagnetic Media Download
- Scattering And Trasmission Functions for Non-coherent Scattering Download
- CelestialFluidsmicellanuous ( 1964 )
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g & p modes ( 1997 )
- A Definition of the g- and p- modes of Self-gravitating Fluids Download
- the g and p modes of Polytropes Download
- Pure Perturbation Spectra of convectively Neutral Fluids Download
- The Potentials for g-,p-, and the Toroidal-modes of Self-gravitating Fluids Download
- Response of a Star to Gravitational waves Download
- The r-modes of rotating fluids Download
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Perturbational-Variational ( 1978 )
- Normal Modes of Self-gravitating in Perturbed Configurations ( I. Perturbational-variational Procedure ) Download
- Normal Modes of Self-gravitating in Perturbed Configurations ( II. Perturbational-variational Expansion of a Non-adiabatic Fluid about the Adiabatic Limit ) Download
- Convective Modes and Convective Stability of Rotating Fluids Download
- Two Basic Sets for the g- and p-modes of Self Gravitating Fluids Download
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Stellar systems, Oscillations ( 1984 )
- Linear oscillations of isotropic stellar systems ( I. Basic theoretical considerations ) Download
- Linear oscillations of isotropic stellar systems ( I. Radial modes of energy-truncated models ) Download
- Linear oscillations of isotropic stellar systems ( I. A Classification of non-radial modes ) Download
- Excitation of stellar oscillation by tidal processes Download
- Eigensolutions of Antonov's Equation Download
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Stellar magnetism ( 1987 )
- Classification of Magnetoatmospheric modes in sunspot umbrae Download
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Liouville's equation ( 1989 )
- Liouville's Equation ( I. Symmetries and classification of modes ) Download
- Liouville's Equation ( II. Eigenmodes of harmonic potentials ) Download
- Liouville's Equation ( III. Symmetries of Linearized equation ) Download
- Liouville's Equation ( IV. The full symmetries of quadratic potentials ) Download
- Liouville's Equation ( V. The full symmetries of r^-1 -potentials ) Download
- Dynamical Group of Liouville's equation for quadric potentials Download
- On the Stability and normal modes of polytropic stellar systems using the symmetries of linearized Liouville's equation Download
- Liouville's equation in post Newtonian approximation ( I. Static Solutions ) Download
- Liouville's equation in post Newtonian approximation ( II. The post Newtonian modes ) Download
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Dark matter & alternative grav
- Revised dynamics or dark matter in galactic and extra galactic scales ? Download
- an f(R) gravitation for galactic enviroments Download
- Dark companion of baryonic matter Download
- An Inverse f(R) Gravitation for Cosmic Speed up, and Dark energy Equivalent Download
- Dark companion of baryonic matter III Download
- Tully-Fisher relation, key to dark companion of baryonic matter Download
- QM in Phase space ( 1984 )
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M5 supergiant
- Investigating the semi-regular light variations of the bright M5 supergiant: alpha Herculis Download
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micellanuous
- Localized solutions of linearized gravitational field equations in free space Download
- Integrals and static solutions of general relativistic Liouville's equation in post Newtonian approximation Download
- Normal modes of relativistic systems in post Newtonian approximation Download
- Angular momentum transfer to a star by gravitational waves Download
- Persian Writings
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Books
- Warmed Earth: What has the climate of the 21st Century to offer, Gita Shenasi, Tehran, ( a book on climate change for Persian speaking communities), 2011.
زمين گرم ، اقليم سده 21 چه به ارمغان دارد، تالیف، 2011 - Relativity: Special and General (a graduate-student textbook in Persian), the first draft taught to IASBS students, 2015. Revisions and additions are in progress.
- Science the Gateway to Understanding, Proceedings of the Workshop on, Tehran, October 2008, Editors: Glenn Schweitzer and Yousef Sobouti, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2008.
- Warmed Earth: What has the climate of the 21st Century to offer, Gita Shenasi, Tehran, ( a book on climate change for Persian speaking communities), 2011.
Other
Major Contributions, Social Engagements, Attendence in Events
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Major contributions to institutional developments
- Responsible for the initial conception and realization of Biruni Observatory, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 1971-1975, and Director of the Observatory, 1975-1980
- Responsible for the creation and development of graduate studies in physics (M.Sc., 1967 and Ph.D., 1986), Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
- Responsible for the initial conception and creation of Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Gava Zang, Zanjan, Iran, 1991, Director, 1991-2010
- Responsible for the initial conception and creation of Abdul - Rahman Sufi College (a private 1st degree college science and humanity), 2004, Head of the Board of Trustees, 2004 - present
- Founding member of the Physical Society of Iran, 1983-present
- Founding member of the Astronomical Society of Iran, 1987-present
- Founding member of the Iranian Society of Ethics in Science and Technology, 2004-present
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Attendance in major scientific events
- IAU 13th. General assembly, Prague, 1967
- IAU Sym. on planetary nebulae, Czechoslovakia, August 1967
- IAU 14th, General Assembly, Brighton, 1972
- Black hole astrophysics, Les Houches, August 1972
- Summer Session on Theory Astrophysics, Trieste, August 1973
- AAS 141st Meeting, Tuscan, December 1973
- AAS 143rd Meeting, Rochester, August 1974
- International School of Physics (E. Fermi), Isolated gravitating systems in General Relativity, Varenna, July 1976
- IAU Colloquium 38, Stellar Convection, Nice, France, August 1976
- AAS 150th Meeting, Atlanta, June 1977
- IAU Symposium 76, Planetary Nebulae, Cornell, June 1977
- Conference on current problems in stellar pulsation instabilities, Baltimore, June 1978
- IAU, 17th General Assembly, Montreal, August 1979
- Third Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Shanghai, 1981 (and member of International Advisory Committee)
- AAS 164th Meeting, Tucson, January 1985
- IAU Symposium 123, Helio- and astro-seismology, Aarhus, Denmark, July 1986
- IAU Symposium 126, Globular systems in galaxies, Harvard, Cambrige, August 1986
- Guest scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Summer 1986
- Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop on Galaxies, June 1987
- Second Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, Adana, Turkey, 1987
- Visiting Fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Summer 1988
- IAU 20th General Assembly, Johns Hopkins University, August 1988
- Visiting fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Summer 1989
- Fourth Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, Tehran, Iran 1990
- Colloquium 132, International Astronomical Union, Problems of stability and instability in stellar system, Delhi October 1990
- Wigner symposium, Gosslar, Germany, July 1991
- Third World Academy of Science, General Assembly, Kuwait, October 1992
- 6th Asian Pacific Regional Meeting of the IAU, Pune, India, August 1993
- Frontiers in Theoretical Physics, Edirne, Turkey, December 1993
- IAU 22nd General Assembly, The Hague, August 1994
- VII International Conference on Symmetry Methods in Physics, Dubna, Russia, 1995
- Third World Academy of Science, 5th General Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria, Septamber 1995
- The 7th Asian-Pacific Regional of IAU Meeting, Pusan, Korea, August 1996
- Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India, August 1997
- 23rd General Assembly Meeting, IAU, Kyoto, Japan, August 1997
- 6th General Assembly of The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Third Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO), Rio does Janerio, Brazil, September 1997
- The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, November 1997
- 10th General Meeting, The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, December 1998
- The Second ICRA Network Workshop, The Chaotic Universe, Pescara, Rome, Italy, February 1999
- 7th General Assembly, The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Dakar, Senegal, November 1999
- International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Dubna, Russia, August 2000
- Stellar Dynamics from Classic to Modern, San Petersburg, Russia, August 2000
- 12th General Meeting, Third World Academy of Sciences, Tehran, October 2000
- Canadian Astronomical Society, Annual Meeting, McMaster University, Hamilton, May 2001
- 8th General Assembly The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), New Delhi, India, October 2001
- Potsdam University, Invited lecturer, Potsdam, Germany, March 2002
- IAU 8th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, July 2002
- 25th General Assembly Meeting, IAU, Sydney, Australia, July 2003
- 9th General Assembly The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Beijing, China, October 2003
- 15th General Meeting, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, October 2004
- National Academy of Science of Armenia and Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Invited Lecturer, Yerevan, Armenia, March 2004
- IAU 9th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, Bali, Indonesia, July 2005
- 16th General Meeting, Third World Academy of Sciences, Alexandria, Egypt, December 2005
- Inter-Academy Workshop on Science & Technology and the Future Development of Societies, Invited lecturer and head of the Iranian Delegation, Nice, France, June 2006
- 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July 2006