Once upon a time in IRAN Presented by: Pujan Ziaie

Once upon a timeOnce upon a time inin

IRANIRANPresented by:Pujan Ziaie

Outlines:Outlines:

IranIran– Iran History and bordersIran History and borders– Persian literaturePersian literature– Persian ancient artPersian ancient art

About myselfAbout myself– EducationEducation– Research interests Research interests – HobbiesHobbies

Iran LocationIran Location

HistoryHistory

IranIran Before Arabs attack (Islam Before Arabs attack (Islam distribution)distribution)

IranIran after Arabs attack and before after Arabs attack and before Mongolian conquestMongolian conquest

IranIran in the current century in the current century

Founding of Iran (Persia)Founding of Iran (Persia) Cyrus The Great (Cyrus The Great (550550 BCE) BCE)

• Founded Persia Founded Persia • Declared the first known Charter of Human Declared the first known Charter of Human

RightsRights.. Iran and Roma 2 great empiresIran and Roma 2 great empires

BordersBorders First Empire: First Empire: The Achaemenid Empire, 550 - 330 BCEThe Achaemenid Empire, 550 - 330 BCE The Sassanid Empire (last empire before ArThe Sassanid Empire (last empire before Ar

abs attack) 550 - 330 BCEabs attack) 550 - 330 BCE

Islamic conquest (Islamic conquest (636 CE636 CE))

Sassanid empire was toppled

Mongolian conquest (Mongolian conquest (13th century13th century ))

We were not the only oneWe were not the only one

Iran in the current centuryIran in the current century

Pahlavi era (1920-1978)Pahlavi era (1920-1978) Islamic Revolution Islamic Revolution (from (from

ImperialImperial to to Islamic RepublicIslamic Republic))

Persian literaturePersian literature

Persian languagePersian language One of the most powerful languagesOne of the most powerful languages Language of poemLanguage of poem

Persian handwritingPersian handwriting Different from ArabicDifferent from Arabic

Persian ArtsPersian Arts

• CarpetCarpet

• MiniatureMiniature

• HandcraftHandcraft

Iran sightseeing placesIran sightseeing places

PersepolisPersepolis YazdYazd AbyaanehAbyaaneh

Iran sightseeing placesIran sightseeing places

and many more..and many more..

Iran - IsfehanIran - Isfehan

Isfehan – Khaaju bridgeIsfehan – Khaaju bridge

Iranian New year ceremonyIranian New year ceremony

Last Wednesday’s ceremonyLast Wednesday’s ceremony new year tablenew year table 1313thth getting-rid-of-bad-luck day getting-rid-of-bad-luck day

Last Wednesday’s ceremonyLast Wednesday’s ceremony

Lots of fireworks & Roman candlesLots of fireworks & Roman candles Making fire on the streets or roofsMaking fire on the streets or roofs Your Redness for meYour Redness for me, , My Yellowness yoursMy Yellowness yours

Eavesdropping: Eavesdropping: (Covertly listening)(Covertly listening)

Iranian new year ceremonyIranian new year ceremony

Cleaning up the whole Cleaning up the whole house before new yearhouse before new year

Setting the new year TableSetting the new year Table 7 S-beginning things7 S-beginning things Red fishRed fish grain plantgrain plant BreadBread Qoran-HafezQoran-Hafez Mirror,….Mirror,….

1313thth removing-bad-luck day removing-bad-luck day

Bad-luck day (1Bad-luck day (1stst April) April) People go outside to People go outside to

naturenature Throwing the grain plant Throwing the grain plant

in riverin river Girls tie the stems to find Girls tie the stems to find

husband!husband!

Throwing gravels in Throwing gravels in river and make some river and make some wisheswishes

Iran: Marriage processIran: Marriage process

process of marriage:process of marriage: Friendship Friendship (Not necessary!)(Not necessary!)

KhaastGaari (asking)KhaastGaari (asking) Bale-borun (dealing!)Bale-borun (dealing!)

MahriyeMahriye Shirbahaa (cost of feed)Shirbahaa (cost of feed) JaheezJaheez

Engagement (ring)Engagement (ring) Aghd Aghd (Religiously husband and (Religiously husband and

wife)wife)

Marriage Marriage (living together)(living together)

No intimate relationship please!

About myself

Education Research plans Hobbies

Birthday:

1982 – 03 - 13

Education

174’th among 450,000 participant >> approved for Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology (2000)

NOW : Participant of YSEP (one year) Future: applying for Master and PHD.

Research plans and Interests

Fuzzy Based Applications (less mathematic)

Final undergraduate project : Developing a Fuzzy Controller for a Planar Biped Robot

using Active Learning Method

Figure 1: Spring Flamingo

Experiences

AICTC (Advanced Information and Communication Technology Center)

Low-level Developer (Java & J2EE)

High-level DeveloperAssistant Software Test Manager Database Designer (Oracle 9i DB)Manager (Software Team)

My interests for future

Developing a pure Active Learning Method using fuzzy logic, GA and N-N and …

Researching on Human way of thinking and inference

Interests

Sport Rock-climbing,

football, … Music

Violin, guitar, daf Drinking & Dancing

Conclusion

Iran is a great, ancient countryI’m a very cool guy!