Yousef Sobouti

Biography

Born in Zanajn, Iran, August 23,1932.
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.

Professor of physics, Shiraz University and IASBS;
Associate Fellow,

Center for Theoritical Physics and Mathematics, AEOI, Tehran, 1986-to date;
International Center for Theoritical Physics(ICTP), 1987-1993;

Member, Scientific Council, ICTP, 1988- 1991
Teaching

in High school in Tabriz, Iran, 1953-1956;
Cartographic Organization of Iran, Tehran, 1956-1958;

Lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Newcastle on Tyne, UK, 1963-1964;
Visiting Associate Professor,

Dept. of Physics, Shiraz Univ., 1964-1971;
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of pennsylvania, 1968-1969;

Founder of

Birouni Observatory, Shiraz, Iran, 1971,
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran 1991.

Visiting Professor Dept. of Physics, Northeastern Univ., Boston, 1991-1992

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

At the Institute of Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences

Inauguration of the Cafeteria named after Haj Hassan Najafi

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

Fluorescent Scattering ( 1963 )
1. Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( I. Basic Theoretical Considerations ) Download
2. Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( II. Coupling among Transitions ) Download
3. Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( III. Formation of Lyman-Birge-Hopfield Bands of N2 In The Martian Armosphere ) Download
4. Fluorescent Scattering in Planetary Atmospheres ( IV. Formation of Lyman-Birge-Hopfield Bands of N2 In The Terrestrial Armosphere ) Download
5. Chandrasekhar's X-, Y-, And Related Functions Download
6. Propagation of Localized Disturbances In Hydromagnetic Media Download
7. Scattering And Trasmission Functions for Non-coherent Scattering Download
CelestialFluidsmicellanuous ( 1964 )
1. a Potential Flow Pertaining to Binary Systems Download
2. On A Bernoulli's Integral Pertaining to Gas Flow in Close Binary Systems Download
g & p modes ( 1997 )
1. A Definition of the g- and p- modes of Self-gravitating Fluids Download
2. the g and p modes of Polytropes Download
3. Pure Perturbation Spectra of convectively Neutral Fluids Download
4. The Potentials for g-,p-, and the Toroidal-modes of Self-gravitating Fluids Download
5. Response of a Star to Gravitational waves Download
6. The r-modes of rotating fluids Download
Perturbational-Variational ( 1978 )
1. Normal Modes of Self-gravitating in Perturbed Configurations ( I. Perturbational-variational Procedure ) Download
2. Normal Modes of Self-gravitating in Perturbed Configurations ( II. Perturbational-variational Expansion of a Non-adiabatic Fluid about the Adiabatic Limit ) Download
3. Convective Modes and Convective Stability of Rotating Fluids Download
4. Two Basic Sets for the g- and p-modes of Self Gravitating Fluids Download
Stellar systems, Oscillations ( 1984 )
1. Linear oscillations of isotropic stellar systems ( I. Basic theoretical considerations ) Download
2. Linear oscillations of isotropic stellar systems ( I. Radial modes of energy-truncated models ) Download
3. Linear oscillations of isotropic stellar systems ( I. A Classification of non-radial modes ) Download
4. Excitation of stellar oscillation by tidal processes Download
5. Eigensolutions of Antonov's Equation Download
Stellar magnetism ( 1987 )
1. Classification of Magnetoatmospheric modes in sunspot umbrae Download
Liouville's equation ( 1989 )
1. Liouville's Equation ( I. Symmetries and classification of modes ) Download
2. Liouville's Equation ( II. Eigenmodes of harmonic potentials ) Download
3. Liouville's Equation ( III. Symmetries of Linearized equation ) Download
4. Liouville's Equation ( IV. The full symmetries of quadratic potentials ) Download
5. Liouville's Equation ( V. The full symmetries of r^-1 -potentials ) Download
6. Dynamical Group of Liouville's equation for quadric potentials Download
7. On the Stability and normal modes of polytropic stellar systems using the symmetries of linearized Liouville's equation Download
8. Liouville's equation in post Newtonian approximation ( I. Static Solutions ) Download
9. Liouville's equation in post Newtonian approximation ( II. The post Newtonian modes ) Download
Dark matter & alternative grav
1. Revised dynamics or dark matter in galactic and extra galactic scales ? Download
2. an f(R) gravitation for galactic enviroments Download
3. Dark companion of baryonic matter Download
4. An Inverse f(R) Gravitation for Cosmic Speed up, and Dark energy Equivalent Download
5. Dark companion of baryonic matter III Download
6. Tully-Fisher relation, key to dark companion of baryonic matter Download
QM in Phase space ( 1984 )
1. Phase Space Quantum Mechanics - Direct Download
2. An Extended phase-space stochastic quantization of constrained Hamiltonian systems Download
M5 supergiant
1. Investigating the semi-regular light variations of the bright M5 supergiant: alpha Herculis Download
micellanuous
1. Localized solutions of linearized gravitational field equations in free space Download
2. Integrals and static solutions of general relativistic Liouville's equation in post Newtonian approximation Download
3. Normal modes of relativistic systems in post Newtonian approximation Download
4. Angular momentum transfer to a star by gravitational waves Download
Persian Writings
Books
1. 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
2. Relativity: Special and General (a graduate-student textbook in Persian), the first draft taught to IASBS students, 2015. Revisions and additions are in progress.
3. 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.

Other

Major Contributions, Social Engagements, Attendence in Events

Major contributions to institutional developments
1. Responsible for the initial conception and realization of Biruni Observatory, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 1971-1975, and Director of the Observatory, 1975-1980
2. Responsible for the creation and development of graduate studies in physics (M.Sc., 1967 and Ph.D., 1986), Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
3. Responsible for the initial conception and creation of Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Gava Zang, Zanjan, Iran, 1991, Director, 1991-2010
4. 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
5. Founding member of the Physical Society of Iran, 1983-present
6. Founding member of the Astronomical Society of Iran, 1987-present
7. Founding member of the Iranian Society of Ethics in Science and Technology, 2004-present
Social Engagements
1. Head of the Board of Trustees of MEHRANEH, an NGO caring for cancer stricken patiants in Greater Zanjan and neighboring provinces, Iran, 2005 – present
2. Head of the Board of Trustees, Association of Zanjanis, an NGO concerned with Sustaunable development of Zanjan Province, Iran, 2006 - present
Attendance in major scientific events
1. IAU 13th. General assembly, Prague, 1967
2. IAU Sym. on planetary nebulae, Czechoslovakia, August 1967
3. IAU 14th, General Assembly, Brighton, 1972
4. Black hole astrophysics, Les Houches, August 1972
5. Summer Session on Theory Astrophysics, Trieste, August 1973
6. AAS 141st Meeting, Tuscan, December 1973
7. AAS 143rd Meeting, Rochester, August 1974
8. International School of Physics (E. Fermi), Isolated gravitating systems in General Relativity, Varenna, July 1976
9. IAU Colloquium 38, Stellar Convection, Nice, France, August 1976
10. AAS 150th Meeting, Atlanta, June 1977
11. IAU Symposium 76, Planetary Nebulae, Cornell, June 1977
12. Conference on current problems in stellar pulsation instabilities, Baltimore, June 1978
13. IAU, 17th General Assembly, Montreal, August 1979
14. Third Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Shanghai, 1981 (and member of International Advisory Committee)
15. AAS 164th Meeting, Tucson, January 1985
16. IAU Symposium 123, Helio- and astro-seismology, Aarhus, Denmark, July 1986
17. IAU Symposium 126, Globular systems in galaxies, Harvard, Cambrige, August 1986
18. Guest scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Summer 1986
19. Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop on Galaxies, June 1987
20. Second Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, Adana, Turkey, 1987
21. Visiting Fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Summer 1988
22. IAU 20th General Assembly, Johns Hopkins University, August 1988
23. Visiting fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Summer 1989
24. Fourth Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, Tehran, Iran 1990
25. Colloquium 132, International Astronomical Union, Problems of stability and instability in stellar system, Delhi October 1990
26. Wigner symposium, Gosslar, Germany, July 1991
27. Third World Academy of Science, General Assembly, Kuwait, October 1992
28. 6th Asian Pacific Regional Meeting of the IAU, Pune, India, August 1993
29. Frontiers in Theoretical Physics, Edirne, Turkey, December 1993
30. IAU 22nd General Assembly, The Hague, August 1994
31. VII International Conference on Symmetry Methods in Physics, Dubna, Russia, 1995
32. Third World Academy of Science, 5th General Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria, Septamber 1995
33. The 7th Asian-Pacific Regional of IAU Meeting, Pusan, Korea, August 1996
34. Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India, August 1997
35. 23rd General Assembly Meeting, IAU, Kyoto, Japan, August 1997
36. 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
37. The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, November 1997
38. 10th General Meeting, The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, December 1998
39. The Second ICRA Network Workshop, The Chaotic Universe, Pescara, Rome, Italy, February 1999
40. 7th General Assembly, The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Dakar, Senegal, November 1999
41. International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Dubna, Russia, August 2000
42. Stellar Dynamics from Classic to Modern, San Petersburg, Russia, August 2000
43. 12th General Meeting, Third World Academy of Sciences, Tehran, October 2000
44. Canadian Astronomical Society, Annual Meeting, McMaster University, Hamilton, May 2001
45. 8th General Assembly The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), New Delhi, India, October 2001
46. Potsdam University, Invited lecturer, Potsdam, Germany, March 2002
47. IAU 8th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, July 2002
48. 25th General Assembly Meeting, IAU, Sydney, Australia, July 2003
49. 9th General Assembly The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Beijing, China, October 2003
50. 15th General Meeting, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, October 2004
51. National Academy of Science of Armenia and Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Invited Lecturer, Yerevan, Armenia, March 2004
52. IAU 9th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, Bali, Indonesia, July 2005
53. 16th General Meeting, Third World Academy of Sciences, Alexandria, Egypt, December 2005
54. Inter-Academy Workshop on Science & Technology and the Future Development of Societies, Invited lecturer and head of the Iranian Delegation, Nice, France, June 2006
55. 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July 2006

Prof. Yousef Sobouti

Founder,

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences