Arts & Sciences Program

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Behrouz Emamizadeh Associate Professor of Mathematics Email: bemamizadeh@pi.ac.ae Phone: +971 2 607 5508 Office: 4023 (Umm Shaif)

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Bath, UK, 1998
• M.S., Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, 1986
• B.S., Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA 1983
• H.S.  Milford Academy, Milford, USA, 1979

Experience

2006 to now	Associate Professor of Mathematics, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
2004 to 2006	Assistant Professor of Mathematics, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
1998 to 2004	Assistant Professor of mathematics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
1987 to 1998	Lecturer of Mathematics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Research Interests

Nonlinear partial differential equations

Rearrangement variational principles

Publications

1. F. Cuccu, B. Emamizadeh & G. Porru, “Optimization of the first eigenvalue in problems involving the P-Laplacian”, Proceedings of AMS, Vol. 137, no. 5, pp. 1677-1687, 2009. 2.  B. Emamizadeh, R.  I. Fernandes M. Poshtan, “Applications of rearrangements to nonlinear optimization problems”, Advanced Modeling and Optimization, Vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 323-329, 2008. 3.  B. Emamizadeh & R. I. Fernandes, "Optimization of the principal eigenvalue of the one dimensional Schrödinger operator", Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 65, no. 65, pp. 1-11, 2008. 4.  B. Emamizadeh & M. Zivari,"Monotonicity of the principal eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian in an annulus", Proceedings of AMS, Vol. 136, no. 5, pp. 1725-1731, 2008. 5.  B. Emamizadeh & M. Zivari, "Optimization problem for a nonlinear elliptic equation", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 135, no. 3, pp. 367-379, 2007. 6.  F. Cuccu, B. Emamizadeh & G. Porru, "Rearrangement optimization of composite membranes", Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 47, no. 8, 12 pages, 2006. 7.  B. Emamizadeh & F. Bahrami, "Existence of solutions For the Barotropic-Vorticity equation in an unbounded domain", Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 36,  no. 1,  pp. 135-147, 2007. 8.  G. Auchmuty,  B. Emamizadeh & M. Zivari, "Dependence of Friedrichs' Constant on Boundary Integrals", Proceedings Royal Society of Edinburgh-Section A (Mathematics), Vol. 135, no. 5, pp. 935-940, 2005. 9.  J. Nycander & B. Emamizadeh, "Variational problem for vortices attached to seamounts", Nonlinear Analysis, Vol. 55, no. 1-2, pp. 15-24, 2003. 10. B. Emamizadeh & M. H. Mehrabi, "Asymptotic behavior of the centroids of a family of vortices", Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 4119-4133, 2003.

Supervision

I have supervised ten MSc and three PhD theses

Awards Research and Scholarship Award, The Petroleum Institute, Academic year 2005-06 Research Associate, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran, 2000-2004 Outstanding Teaching Award, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Academic year 1999-2000

Editorship

Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications “Involve” - A journal of mathematics