Welcome to University of Technology (IUT)

1 Acknowledgment

Isfahan University of Technology

DAAD

H. Akbarzadeh 2 at a glance • Population – About 80 Million, 1% of world population • Land Area – 1,6 million km2 , 1% of global land – 18th largest country in the world • Natural Resources – Natural gas ~ 2nd in the world – Oil ~ 3rd or 4rd in the world – zinc ~ 1st, copper ~ 2nd, iron ~ 9th , lead ~ 11th ~ 7% of total global mineral reserves Our main resource is not underground , it is on the ground Human resource is the main advantage of the country H. Akbarzadeh 3 Iran Population Age structure 0 -24: 42.4% 25-54: 46.1% 54- : 11.5%

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision

H. Akbarzadeh 4 Scientific Status

• University Students: 4,700,000 Men 52% , Women 48%

• University Staff: 71000 Full professor ~ 5% Associate professor ~ 11% Assistant professor ~ 43% Lecturer ~ 41%

www.irphe.ac.ir//files/site1/pages/Amar_1Negah/w-br-bruoshoor92-93.pdf

H. Akbarzadeh 5 Scientific Status

Contribution of Middle East to World Science 1980-2009 Calculated by Science-Metric using Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)

http://www.science-metrix.com/ . Iran (GI= 11.07)

H. Akbarzadeh 6 Scientific hot zones

http://www.science-metrix.com/

H. Akbarzadeh 7 Scientific Status

Iran contribution (%) ~ 1.7 % in scientific documents

Scopus Web of Science (ISI)

H. Akbarzadeh 8

Joint papers in 2014

Germany

http://thomsonreuters.com Iran, a Regional Hub

15 neighbors Russia Turkmenistan Kazakhstan Afghanistan Azerbaijan Pakistan Armenia Oman Turkey U.A.E Bahrain Saudi Arabia Iraq Qatar Kuwait Historical heritage

• The first people lived here: ~ 30,000 years ago1. • Persian civilization ahead of Egypt, India, Greece and Rome civilization1. • Sanskrit, the mother of modern languages, born in Iran, then went to India1. • The first accounting tools: 9000 years ago1. • The world’s first public postal system: ~ 3000 years ago1. • Creation of Ghanat , a special technology to transfer water: ~ 8000 years ago2. • First Charter of Human Rights

The Cyrus Cylinder (539 BC.) British Museum , London

1- http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/history-article3.htm 2- Barshan Mohannad. (2007). Ghanat Transitions, Technology and Civilization from past up to now. Plenty of Historical sites

Chogha Zanbil, 1250 BC. , 6th BC.

Naqsh-e Jahan Square Isfahan. 1598 to 1629 AD.

Soltaniyeh, 1300 AD. , 4000 BC.

Armenian Ensembles Jameh of Isfahan Takht-e Soleymān 68 AD. Isfahan. 771 to 2016 AD. 1000 BC Isfahan within Iran

located in the central part of Iran

13 Isfahan: UNESCO creative city

14 Isfahan University of Technology

• Location: 22 km, northwest of Isfahan • Established in 1977 • 14 departments, science, engineering, agriculture • Academic staff : 591, 90 Prof. 211 Assoc. 148 Assis. • Number of students: 9729, G:4909 U: 4820 Isfahan Science and Technology Town

Mission: conduct the university researches toward industry

16 Trends of ISI Papers in IUT

The number of annual ISI papers until 2015

17 Scientific Journals

Ten Periodic Scientific Journals

18 Department of Physics

Established in 1985 Main research areas: • 26 faculty members • Computational Condensed Matter • 50 PhD students • Experimental Condensed Matter • Theoretical Condensed Matter • 150 MSc students • Complex Systems • 200 BSc students • High energy Physics • Nuclear Physics

19 International collaborations

• Joint projects with regional and international scientists

• ICTP cooperation: • ICTP Affiliated center in the region • Federation scheme • Agreement of enhanced cooperation in Science and Technology

• MOU between ICTP and Ministry of Science, Research and Technology(Iran): • IUT will continue to act as a collaborating regional center for ICTP on computational physics. Iranian Morality

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