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[[Image:nnafari.jpg|right]]Nasser Nafari was an Iranian visiting professor at the [[Physics]] department  at [[Knox]] during 2003 - 2005. Then Professor [[Mark Shroyer]] came and filled in the position Nafari left. Nafari's research interests are dynamical mean field theory and density functional theory. Towards the end of his stay at Knox, Nafari mentioned to several students that he would be heading back to teach in Iran, but nobody really knows where he is now. According to online sources, Nafari is now a Resident Researcher in School of Physics at [http://http://www.ipm.ir/ Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM)] in Iran, where he also held a Senior Associate Researcher position from 1993 to 1995. He is also a professor at Sharif University of Technology, and holds some kind of position in Atomic Energy Organization of Iran(AEOI). It is believed that he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale before he came to Knox.
 
[[Image:nnafari.jpg|right]]Nasser Nafari was an Iranian visiting professor at the [[Physics]] department  at [[Knox]] during 2003 - 2005. Then Professor [[Mark Shroyer]] came and filled in the position Nafari left. Nafari's research interests are dynamical mean field theory and density functional theory. Towards the end of his stay at Knox, Nafari mentioned to several students that he would be heading back to teach in Iran, but nobody really knows where he is now. According to online sources, Nafari is now a Resident Researcher in School of Physics at [http://http://www.ipm.ir/ Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM)] in Iran, where he also held a Senior Associate Researcher position from 1993 to 1995. He is also a professor at Sharif University of Technology, and holds some kind of position in Atomic Energy Organization of Iran(AEOI). It is believed that he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale before he came to Knox.
  
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The impression Nasser Nafari left on students who took physics courses with him is that he is a hard core theorist. [[Fahim Chandurwala]] claims that he's heard some students complaining about Nafari giving them a PHYS-312 level explanation to a PHYS-110 problem. Also some people didn't like Nafari because they couldn't understand the English he speaks. Being a hard core theoretical physicist, Nafari had a hard time trying to explain a few concepts in PHYS-130A, the algebra based version of Electricity and Magnetism, without using calculus. He had to constantly refer to some integration while explaining and then say "well, of course I'm not supposed to use calculus in this class so you don't have to understand this". According to some physics graduates from past couple of years, Nafari taught PHYS-314 Quantum Physics in Fall 2004. He spent so much time in class answering people's homework questions that he only had enough time left to cover a little over 3 chapters worth of material in the book, while the same class taught by professor [[Thomas Moses]] in Fall 2006 reached chapter 5.
 
 
 
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Nasser Nafari was an Iranian visiting professor at the Physics department at Knox during 2003 - 2005. Then Professor Mark Shroyer came and filled in the position Nafari left. Nafari's research interests are dynamical mean field theory and density functional theory. Towards the end of his stay at Knox, Nafari mentioned to several students that he would be heading back to teach in Iran, but nobody really knows where he is now. According to online sources, Nafari is now a Resident Researcher in School of Physics at Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) in Iran, where he also held a Senior Associate Researcher position from 1993 to 1995. He is also a professor at Sharif University of Technology, and holds some kind of position in Atomic Energy Organization of Iran(AEOI). It is believed that he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale before he came to Knox.