Shahriar Shahriari's Vitae

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1986.
Advisor: Professor I. Martin Isaacs.
Dissertation Topic: Capable Groups and Fully Ramified Characters.
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1979.
B.A. (with High Honors) Oberlin College, May 1977.
Double major in Mathematics and Economics.

Combinatorics of Finite Sets and Finite Lattices; Representation Theory of Finite Groups; History of Mathematics in the Islamicate World.

July 2008 - Present: William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
July 1989 - Present: Extended Graduate Faculty Member, School of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
July 2001 - June 2008: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
July 2004 - June 2007: Chair, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
July 2000 - June 2003: Associate Dean of the College, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
July 1993 - June 2001: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
August 1989 - June 1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
August 1986 - August 1989: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, CA.
July 1985 - July 1986: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Sept. 1977 - June 1979, Sept. 1982-Dec. 1983, Sep. 1984-June 1985: Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Sept. 1979 - June 1980: Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Razi, Kermanshah, Iran.

February 1, 2019-March 31, 2019: Visiting Scholar, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University, New York.
September 1, 2018-November 5, 2018: Visiting Researcher, Combinatorial Geometry Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
June 2002, August 2003, August 2006, and May 2016: Visiting Researcher, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran.
April 2000 - August 2000: Visiting Associate in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology.
June 1999 - August 1999: Visiting Researcher, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran.
July 1996 - January 1997: Visiting Associate in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology.
December 1995 - January 1996: United Nations Mission to Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran.
December 1991 - January 1992: United Nations Mission to Sharif Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
August 1990 - December 1990: Member, Mathematical Science Research Institute, Program on Representations of Finite Groups, Berkeley, CA.
Jan. 1984 - June 1984: N.S.F. supported Research Assistant, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, England.

May 2018. The Wig Teaching Award, Pomona College.
January 2017. Pomona College's Faculty Alumni Service Award.
April 2016. The 7C (Claremont Colleges) Faculty Diversity Award for Mentoring.
January 2015. The Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics.
November 2014. Southern California-Nevada Section of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) Teaching Award.
May 2013. The Wig Teaching Award, Pomona College.
May 2008. Named the William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College.
May 2008. The Wig Teaching Award, Pomona College.
January 2008. American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2007 for the book Approximately Calculus , AMS, 2006.
May 1999. The Wig Teaching Award, Pomona College.
July 1998. The Mathematical Association of America's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for the Mathematics Magazine article ``Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra'', 70 (1997), 93-104, co-authored with Dan Kalman, and Robert Mena.
May 1993. The Wig Teaching Award, Pomona College.
May 1977. Phi Beta Kappa.

July 2005--Present. Member of the Editorial Board of Order, A Journal on the Theory of Ordered Sets and its Applications, published by Springer.
April 2019--Present. Member of the Editorial Board of Math Horizons published by the MAA.
October 2007--January 2013. Member of the Editorial Board of the Mathematical Association of America's MAA Textbooks.
January 2007--October 2007. Member of the Editorial Board of the Mathematical Association of America's Classroom Resource Materials.
Sept. 1979--July 1982, Sept. 1987-Sept. 1993: Member of the editorial board of ``Reconciliation with Mathematics'', an expository mathematics journal in Farsi.

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