Saeid Alikhani Curriculum Vitae Department of Mathematics, Phone: +983531232702 Yazd University, Fax: +98 353 8210695 89195-741, Yazd, Iran, [email protected] [email protected] https://pws.yazd.ac.ir/alikhani/ 1 Personal First name and Surname: Saeid Alikhani Nationality: Iranian Place of birth: Shemiran. Year of birth: 1974 Marital status: Married with two child. 2 Education • Ph.D. Mathematics (Graph Theory and Combinatorics), Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, March (2009). Thesis title: Dominating sets and domination polynomials of graphs. Supervisors: Professor Yee-hock Peng (E-mail: [email protected]) Professor Saieed Akbari, Sharif University of Technology (Email: s [email protected]). • M.Sc. Pure Mathematics, Shiraz University, Iran, 2000. Thesis title: Functions which are almost multipliers of Hilbert function spaces. Supervisor: Professor Bahman Yousefi. • B.Sc. Mathematics, Yazd University, Iran. 3 Research Interest Algebraic Graph Theory, Graph Polynomials, Zeros of Graph Polynomials, Combinatorics, Nano-structures, Mathematical Computation, Mathematical Chemistry, Mathematical Analysis, Mathematical Education. 4 Teaching Experience Undergraduate courses: Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Ordinary Differential Equations, Mathemat- ical Analysis I, Mathematical Analysis II, Numerical Computation, Topology, Mathematics Logic, Linear Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Introduction to Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, Coding Theory, English for Mathematics students. Graduate courses: Combinatorial Analysis and Graph Theory, Topics in Combinatorics, Combinatorial Analysis I, Algebraic Combinatorics, Advanced Graph Theory. 5 Employment • Professor of Mathematics, Yazd University, May 2018-Now. • Associate Professor of Mathematics, Yazd University, Sept 2013-May 2018. • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Yazd University, Sept 2009-Sept 2013. • Non Resident Researcher, School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran (2011 - 2013). • Lecturer of Mathematics, Yazd University, 1999-2006. 1 6 Professional Activities • Manager of Research and Technology Affairs, Yazd University, Dec 2017-Aug 2019. • Chair of department of Pure Mathematics, Yazd University, May 2016-Jan 2018. • Coach of Mathematics Team of Yazd University, Competition of Mathematics, Iranian Mathemat- ical Society (IMS), 2009-2013, 2019. • Coach of Mathematics team of Yazd University, International Mathematics Competition for Uni- versity Students, 2014, American University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. • Iranian Mathematical Society representative at Yazd University, 2016-now. • Controller of graduated school of Yazd University, 2010-now. • Reviewer of American Mathematical Society, 2010-now. • Reviewer of Zentralblatt, 2011-now. • Managing Editor of Journal \Algebraic Structures and Their Applications", 2013-now. 7 Honors 1. Second rank in Mathematics Diploma in 1992. 2. First rank in B.Sc Mathematics at Yazd University in 1996. 3. First rank in M.Sc Pure Mathematics at Shiraz University in 1999. 4. Distinction of Instructor Mathematics at Yazd Technical Institute in 2004. 5. The academic representative of post graduate students club in Institute for Mathematical Research, UPM, 2007-2009. 6. Grant Fellowship from School of Graduate Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2007-2009. 7. Scholarship from Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, 2008. (Unused) 8. First rank in PhD Mathematics (Graph Theory), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2008. 9. The fourth rank in the best Asian South East Students Festival, Malaysia, 2008. 10. Distinguished researcher of department of Mathematics, Yazd University, Dec 2012. 11. Distinguished researcher of Yazd University, Dec 2013. 12. Higher researcher (second rank) in the among of Yazd sate researchers, Dec 2015. 13. Distinguished controller of graduated school of Yazd University, May 2016. 14. Distinguished Professor of Faculty of Sciences, Yazd University, May 2017. 15. 2019 higher researcher of Yazd University, Dec 2019. 2 8 Publications 8.1 Books 1. Calculus II (For Engineering and Science students), Yazd Publication, Yazd, 2003. In Persian. 2. Ordinary Differential Equations, Yazd University Publication (with Y. Sohrabi), Yazd, 2006. In Persian. 3. Calculus of multi-variable functions and vector analysis, (with M.J. Montazeri), Tadvin publication, Yazd, Sept 2010. In Persian. 4. Dominating sets and domination polynomials of graphs, LAP, Germany, Jan 2012. 5. Calculus of multi-variable functions, (with M.J. Montazeri), Nikooravesh publication, Yazd, 2015. In Persian. 6. Graph Theory and its applications, (with Dr. S. Jahari), Yazd University Publication, 2017. In Persian. 8.2 Journal Papers Papers published in Mathematics Journals 1. Distinguishing critical graphs, With S. Soltani, Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/02522667.2020.1773614. 2. On some parameters related to matching of graph powers, with N. Soltani, Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences & Cryptography , to appear. 3. Total dominator chromatic number of graphs with specific construction, with N. Ghanbari, Open Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics, (2020) 3(2), 1-7. 4. The cost number and the determining number of a graph, with S. Soltani, Journal of Algebraic Systems, to appear. 5. The chromatic distinguishing index of certain graphs, with S. Soltani, AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2020) 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.akcej.2019.03.008. 6. On the dominated chromatic number of certain graphs, with M.R. Piri, Transactions on Combina- torics, 9 (4) (2020) 217{230. 7. More on the sixth coefficient of the matching polynomial in regular graphs, with N. Soltani, Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences 14(2) (2020) 221-233. 8. The distinguishing number (index) and the domination number of a graph, with S. Soltani, Khayyam Journal of Mathematics, 6 (20) (2020) 199{205. 9. On the signed domination number of some Cayley graphs, with F. Ramezani and E. Vatandoost, Communication in Algebra, 48, No. 7 (2020) 2825-2832. https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2020.1722830. 10. An upper bound on the distinguishing index of graphs with minimum degree at least two, With S. Soltani, Algebraic Structures and Their Applications, 7(2) (2020) 51-62. 11. Trees with distinguishing index equal distinguishing number plus one, with S. Klavˇzar,F. Lehner, S. Soltani, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, 40 (2020) 875{884. 12. A graph which recognizes idempotents of a commutative ring, with H.R. Dorbidi, Journal of Alge- braic Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, (2020), 143-154. 13. Domination polynomial of clique cover product of graphs, with S. Jahari, Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Volume 28 (2019). Number 2, pp. 248-259. 3 14. Distinguishing number and distinguishing index of the join of two graphs, with S. Soltani, Mathe- matics Interdisciplinary Research, 4 (2019) 239-251. 15. The Distinguishing Number and the Distinguishing Index of Graphs from Primary Subgraphs, with S. Soltani, Iranian Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 10 (3) (2019) 223{240. 16. Distinguishing number and distinguishing index of neighbourhood coronal of two graphs, Contri- butions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2019) 175-189. 17. On the roots of total domination polynomial of graphs, with N. Jafari, Journal of Discrete Math- ematical Sciences and Cryptography, https://doi.org/10.1080/09720529.2019.1616908, 23(4) (2020) 795-807. 18. The distinguishing number and the distinguishing index of co-normal product of two graphs, with S. Soltani, Ratio Mathematica, Volume 31 (2019), 79{88. 19. On the roots of total domination polynomial of graphs, II, with N. Jafari, Facta Universitatis, Series: Mathematics and Informatics, Vol. 34, No 4 (2019), 659-669. 20. On the zero forcing number of generalized sierpinski graphs, with F. Ramezani, E. Vatandoost, Transactions on Combinatorics, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2019), 41{50. 21. On k-total dominating graphs, with Mynhardt and Fatehi, The Australasian Journal of Combina- torics, 73(2) (2019), 313-333. 22. Symmetry breaking in planar and maximal outerplanar graphs, with S. Soltani, Discrete Mathe- matics, Algorithms and Applications (DMAA), Vol. 10, No. 6 (2019) 1950008 (11 pages). 23. On the k-neighborhood coloring of the corona and join products of graphs, with I. Rajasingh and S. Soltani, Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Vol. 40 (2019), No. 3, pp. 805{811. 24. The spectral determinations of two classes of connected multicone graphs, With Zeydi, Behmaram, Oboudi, Thulasiraman, Zhao and Beineke, AKCE International of Graphs and Combinatorics, doi:10.1016/j.akcej.2018.11.002. 25. More on the total dominator chromatic number of a graph, with Nima Ghanbari, Journal of Infor- mation and Optimization Sciences, Vol. 40 (2019), No. 1, pp. 157-169. 26. Trees with distinguishing number two, with S. Soltani, AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, 16 (2019) 280-283. doi: 10.1016/j.akcej.2018.02.001. 27. Some new results on the total domination polynomial of a graph, with N. Jafari, Ars Combin., to appear. Available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00826. 28. Stabilizing the distinguishing number of a graph, with S. Soltani, Communications in Algebra, 2018, Vol. 46, No. 12, 5460{5468. 29. Total dominator chromatic number of some operations on a graph, with N. Ghanbari, Bulletin of Computational Applied Mathematics, Vol.6, No.2 (2018) 9-20. 30. The distinguishing number