Shahriar Shahriari

William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics and Statistics; On leave Fall 2023
shahriar.shahriari@pomona.edu
Office:
Estella Laboratory
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(909) 621-8714

With Pomona Since: 1989
Shahriar Shahriari
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  • Expertise

    Expertise

    In 2015, Shahriar Shahriari was recognized for his commitment to bringing more students from underrepresented groups into the field of mathematics with what is widely considered the nation’s top prize for teaching mathematics—the Mathematical Association of America’s Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mathematics.

    Known for classes that encourage student-driven discovery, he published the materials for his honors Calculus class as a textbook, titled Approximately Calculus, which won the American Library Association’s Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2007.

    Shahriari’s research focuses principally on chain partitions and cut-sets of Boolean Lattices and other partially ordered sets.

    Research Interests

    • Chain partitions
    • Cut-sets of Boolean Lattices
    • Partially ordered sets

    Areas of Expertise

    MATHEMATICS

    • Combinatorics of Posets
    • Extremal Set Theory
    • Finite Group Theory
    • Representation Theory of Finite Groups
    • Surreal Numbers
  • Work

    Work

    Approximately Calculus, American Mathematical Society, 292 pp., 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-3750-4

    With T. Hsu, and M. Logan. The generalized Furedi conjecture holds for finite linear lattices. Discrete Mathematics, 306:3140--3144, 2006

    With B. Rothschild. Cutsets and anti-chains in linear lattices. Journal of Combinatorial Theory A, 113(8):1783--1790, November 2006

    With J. Pommersheim. Unique factorization in generalized power series rings. The Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 134(5):1277--1287, 2006

    With M. Logan. A new matching property for posets and existence of disjoint chains. Journal of Combinatorial Theory A, 108(1):77--87, October 2004

    With T. Hsu, M. Logan, and C. Towse, Partitioning the Boolean Lattice into a Minimal Number of Chains of Relatively Uniform Size, European Journal of Combinatorics, 24: 219-228, 2003

    With T. Hsu, M. Logan, and C. Towse, Partitioning the Boolean Lattice into Chains of Large Minimum Size, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Part A, 97(1): 62-84, 2002

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D.
    University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Master of Arts
    University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Bachelor of Arts
    Oberlin College

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Abstract Algebra I
    • Abstract Algebra II: Galois Theory
    • Combinatorics
    • Deterministic Operations Research
    • Honors Topics in Calculus II
    • Linear Algebra
    • Senior Seminar in Mathematical Exposition
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993, 1999, 2008 & 2013.

    CHOICE Magazine (Association of College and Research Libraries), selection of his book Approximately Calculus (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2006), as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

    The Mathematical Association of America, Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for the Mathematics Magazine article "Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra," 70 (1997), 93-104, co-authored with D. Kalman and R. Mena, 1998

    Phi Beta Kappa

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