Mohammad Reza Darafsheh (Born on 31 Aug. 1950, Abadan, Iran) is an iranian mathematician. darafsheh received his B.Sc. with distinction, Pure Mathematics at University of Tehran in 1974 and his Ph.D. Pure Mathematics at University of Birmingham in 1978. He graduated 31 Ph.D. Students and 63 M.Sc. Students and won Abdul-salam prize in mathematics.

Mohammad Reza Darafsheh
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Born	(1950-08-31) August 31, 1950 (age 75) Abadan, Iran
Alma mater	University of Birmingham
Known for	Group Theory
Awards	Abdul-Salam (1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Tehran
Doctoral advisor	Donald Livingstone

2009-present : Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Tehran.

2003 : Deputy Dean in Administrative and Financial Affairs, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran.

1997-present : Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Tehran.

1995-1998 : Head of Research Group in Group Theory, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (Research Institute in Basic Science)IPM.

1995-1999 : Head, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Tehran.

1989-1995 : Head of Postgraduate Studies, Department of Mathematics and computer science, University of Tehran.

1992-1997 : Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Tehran.

1989-1992 : Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Tehran.

1984-1989 : Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Ahwaz University.

1983-1984 : Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Abadan Institute of Technology.

1979-1980 : Head, Department of Mathematics, Ahwaz University.

1978-1981 : Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Ahwaz University.

2012 : Salient Researcher of the University of Tehran.

2008 : Distinguished Researcher of the University of Tehran.

2008 : Author of the distinguished book of the Tehran University Press, Algebra in 3 volumes.

2005-2007 : Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

2003 : Distinguished Professor of the University of Tehran.

2002-2008 : Senior associate member of the International Abdus-Salam Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

2001 : Sabbatical leave awarded by the University of Tehran, (Yale University).

1997 : Winner of basic research prize in the 10th Kharazmi international festival, Tehran, Iran.

1994 : Sabbatical leave awarded by the University of Tehran, (Yale University).

1991-1997 : Associate Member of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

1990 : Winner of the Abdul-salam prize in Mathematics.

Q-groups , Products of groups , Locally finite groups , Association schemes , Generation of groups,Strongly regular graphs , p-Steinberg characters , Mathematical Chemistry , Topological indices of graphs , Symmetry classes of tensors , Quasi-permutation characters , Character theory of finite groups,t-designs with a given group of automorphism , Characterizing finite groups by their prime graph, Characterizing finite groups by the set of their element orders , Modular characters and decomposition matrices for linear groups , Topological indices of graphs , Binary codes obtained from designs, Automorphism group of p-groups , Caley graphs.

Darafsheh researched 23 projects for iranian universities that some of them are mentioned:

• Recognition of the special linear group over GF(3), 12 months,1386 (2008), University of Tehran.

• Computing the topological indices of the triangle graph, 10 months, 1388 (2009), University of Tehran.

• Characterization of groups Dp+1(2) and Dp+1.

• Power of irreducible characters, 12 months, 1388 (2009), University of Tehran.

• Computation of the Wiener and hyper-Wiener indices of chemical graphs, 12 months, 1388 (2009), University of Tehran.

• Computation of the topological indices of the triangle graph, 10 months, 1388 (2009),University of Tehran.

• Powers of irreducible characters, 6 months, 1389 (2010), University of Tehran.

• Computation of the Wiener and hyper-Wiener indices of chemical graphs, 11 months, 1390 (2010), University of Tehran.

• G-graphs and symmetric graphs, 12 months, 1395(2017), ICRP, Tehran, Iran.

Darafsheh published 181 article that some of them are mentioned:

• p- Steinberg characters of alternating and projective special linear groups, J. Algebra 181 (1996), 196-206, MR 97b: 20012, Zbl. 851.20008.

• Product of the symmetric group with the alternating group on seven letters, Quasigroups Related Systems 9 (2002), 33-44, MR 2003j:20031, Zbl. 1036.20025.

• On the dimensions of cyclic symmetry classes of tensors, J. Algebra 205 (1998), 317-325, MR 99g: 15040, Zbl. 924.20005, (With M.R. Pournaki).

• On connected tetravalent Cayley graphs of a non-abelian group of order 3p2, Algebra Colloq.(with M. Abdollahi) to appear.

1. An introduction to group theory,Basic Science Press,First edition: 1369 (1990),Second edition:1377 (1998),Third Edition with addition: Tehran Univers -ity Press 1387.

2. Linear groups, Tehran University Press, 1377 (1998), Second Edition: 1387 (2008).

3. Algebra, vol. 1: Groups, Tehran University Press, 1386 (2007). Second Edition: 1389 (2010). Third Edition 1393 (2014).

4. Algebra, vol. 2: Rings, Fields and Galois Theory, Tehran University Press, 1386 (2007). Second Edition: 1389 (2010). Third Edition 1393 (2014).

5. Algebra, vol. 3: Modules and Representation Theory, Tehran University Press, 1386 (2007). Second Edition: 1389 (2010). Third Edition 1393 (2014).

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