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(1) PhD in Math at the AUS: https://www.aus.edu/cas/department-of-mathematics-and-statistics/phd-in-mathematics-phd-mth,
we have three GA positions available for the Spring semester for the PhD program. Each of these positions offers a monthly stipend of 8,000 dirhams(2170 dollars) and free tuition. Applications are now welcome for these positions. If more information is needed, contact phdmth@aus.edu

(2) MS in Math at the AUS: https://www.aus.edu/cas/department-of-mathematics-and-statistics/master-of-science-in-mathematics

AUS is classified in Group 1 within the UAE’s Research Clusters, according to the National Higher Education Institutions Classification Framework.

AUS is moving ahead and has added six research centers to this beautiful campus: (I) The Energy, Water, and Sustainable Environment Research Centre; (II) Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainable Development; (III) Materials Research Centre (iv) Centre of Arab Studies and Islamic Civilizations (CASIC)  (V) Biosciences and Bioengineering Research Centre (ABSBERC) (VI) Artificial Intelligence, Smart Infrastructure and Robotics Research Centre (AISIRC). For more info. Click here, and here.

AUS registers significant rise in QS World Rankings 2025, ranking among top 22 percent of ranked global universities and among top three in the UAE

AUS  cares; thank you, Chancellor Tod Laursen, for taking the initiative and establishing an AUS-Giving Website.  This is awesome.

PhD in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics is a reality now at the AUS; click here for details.

American University of Sharjah (AUS) has made notable strides and is now positioned among the top 150 universities in Asia in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Ranking for 2024. This marks a significant advancement from its previous standing among the top 250 universities in Asia last year.

American University of Sharjah (AUS) has been ranked among the top 125 universities in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2024, marking a significant advancement from its previous position last year that placed it among the top 250 under 50 years of age.

Take a tour inside the American University of Sharjah( AUS)  virtually, try it  and you will not regret it.   I always say that I have lived in a resort area since 2003.

 

Why AUS (American University of Sharjah)?click here

AUS engineering programs rank first in employability reputation in the UAE and advance in global rankings

AUS top in UAE for studies in architecture and design, QS World University Subject Rankings reveal

Palestine Journal of Mathematics (Scopus Journal)

The first book in the literature on "Graphs from Rings."

AUS-ICMS 2020, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 6–9 , Proceedings (Editors: Ayman Badawi and Jim Coykendall) of the special session Rings, Monoids and Module Theory, in honor of Daniel D. Anderson , organized by Ayman Badawi

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My Electrical Records:

1. Google Scholar

2. Scopus

(sqrt{5}). Web of science (ISI = Institute for Scientific Information-Articles, you need to sign in)

4. American Math Society ( Math Reviews, you need to sign in)

5. Publons, verified reviewer and editor

6. Research Gate

7. Academia

8. Orcid

9. I am on the list as one of the AUS researchers named among top two percent of global researchers (Scientist), 2021, 2022, 2023 (no link, just believe it), and 2024

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Nov 17, 2024: Congratulations. AUS student leads award-winning team behind online platform for sustainable food and waste reduction

NOV 16 (maybe 13), 2024: AUS CARES. Another Successful giving-day. Congratulation to the AUS-Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs. I added myself to the picture here :)

NOV 16, 2024: “A mathematician is a coffee machine that turns coffee into Theorems,” said Paul Erdos.  AUS experts on sustainability: “ True Scientists who turn Theorems into Green," with their hard work,  we see many vegetables produced locally are now available in the UAE under the sustainability program, where AUS experts played a crucial role.  NOW, AUS-Experts, in cooperation with other local and international experts, are extending their study to the Sky and to make it a “Green Sky” by 2050.  We are proud of our AUS-Experts on sustainability.

OCT 24, 2024: AUS ranked among the top 5 percent in the Arab Region. The new doctoral programs include a PhD in Management, a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Oct 20, 2024: Congratulations to all involved in the successful conference on Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics (SICAL) at AUS.

October 18, 2024: No Comments. Arabic Version. My Alien Inteligent Friend Version (English).My AI friend needs more training to understand the Lebanese accent. He may understand the general idea, but I would give him a 6/10 on this task.

October 4, 2024: Thirty-three researchers from American University of Sharjah (AUS) have been recognized for their global research influence and impact, as featured in the Stanford-Elsevier Top Scientists List 2024.

October 3, 2024: Congratulations to the AUS-Students Amaan Memoun, Latifa Al Shalahi, Nada Nasser, Khalifa Al Duhoori, and Hisham Kazim for award-winning sustainability research.

September 28, 2024: Deep-Thoughts -Arabic-Version, with the help of my AI-Friend (Alien Intelligent Friend), here is the English-Version

September 27, 2024: Congratulations. In a remarkable performance, the AUS teams (Omar Farrag, Baraa Abed, Ahmad Mansour and Amr Abu Alhaj, who were supported by their advisors, Dr. Abdulrahman Al Ali and Dr. Taha Landolsi, both professors of computer science and engineering) secured four top spots despite competing against an impressive 215 teams from 11 countries

September 25, 2024: Congratulations. Kristina Katsos from AUS selected as Global Champion by Aspen Institute’s Stevens Initiative

September 25, 2024: Congratulations! AUS honored 32 students for extracurricular contributions and athletic excellence with scholarships totaling 408,853 AED.

September 21, 2024: American University of Sharjah (AUS), Invest in Sharjah and the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa) have launched 'Seal the Deal' -- a unique platform where students-led startups can pitch to leading business leaders - opening doors to initial investments. 

September 13, 2024:  Congratulation: Three talented engineering students from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) – Salma Shaarawi, Mohamed Eid, and Aley Eshra win the 2024 UAE James Dyson Award for developing  “Eshara”, addressing a critical Middle East gap: the lack of Arabic sign language translation services. A communication solution for the hard-of-hearing community

September 7, 2024: Congratulations to Mohammad Kabbani, an AUS-Computer Science graduate, on his presentation at the ACL. The ACL is one of the most competitive annual forums in natural language processing and computational linguistics, with an acceptance rate of only around 20 percent. This is another definite Waww++.

September 6, 2024: Great news to the AUS-MCM-Students, Sheraa and National Network Communications (NNC) — a leading full-service smart agency based in Sharjah — marks a first in the UAE and the broader region.

September 3, 2024: Congratulation, The President of the American University of Sharjah (AUS) Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi recognized among the Most Inspiring Leaders in the Middle East by Arabian Business Magazine.

September 3, 2024: Doing things locally and thinking globally, AUS extended its cooperation with some universities in China.

August 29, 2024: Congratulation, AUS reaffirms excellence with prestigious ABET accreditation by USA for seven engineering programs until 2030.

August 28, 2024: Congratulation, AUS honors the strength and achievements of Emirati women in its community on Emirati Women’s Day

August 22, 2024: Congratulation. Mohammad AlHamaydeh, Professor of Civil Engineering at American University of Sharjah (AUS), has been awarded the 2024 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Region 10 Distinguished Service Medal. This prestigious award recognizes his contributions to the civil engineering profession, particularly his leadership and innovation on a global scale.

August 22, 2024: One of the youngest studio instructors for the Introduction to the Architecture program at Columbia University, USA, is our alumna Mariam Jacob; this definitely deserves WAW ++++. Congratulation.

August 10, 2024: Farid Khafizov and Aymanov were acting stupid and silly (I guess in 1992) at the University of North Texas; he sent me the picture three days ago. It reminded me of Om-Kalthoum: qol  lizaman irja3 ya zaman = tell the time to roll back to that time.

August 9, 2024: Congratulation, Amani Yassine, a PhD student in materials science and engineering at American University of Sharjah (AUS), received the Roger Kelly Award under the Young Researcher category for her research on metal nanoparticles. 

August 7, 2024: WO-MAN, AUS partners with Nama to establish “HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi Chair in Women’s Leadership”

August 2, 2024: We are proud of our alumni math student, one of our best math students, and my student Reem Mahmoud, who obtained her PhD in Mathematics and just received a visiting position at New York University Abu Dhabi. Hopefully, she can join us at the AUS next year. I connected our talented student Omar with her advisor for some advice. PIC

July 25, 2024: This American doctor on CBS (60 minutes) rebukes Netanyahu's rhetoric tonight.

July 22, 2024: I am pleased that the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin, Ireland, have become popular at the AUS. I was one of the math judges for three consecutive years: 2018, 2019, and 2020 ( It is my chance to stick my name here :))) ).

July 21, 2024: Congratulations to Lodan Elmugamer,  Rana Gharaibeh, and Ali Reza Sajun, who won the Best Short Paper Award for AI-powered student engagement devices at the IEEE ICALT Conference 2024. I Know  Rana (a very sharp student, who took 2 courses with me, Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory). It is my chance to suggest that Abstract Algebra (in particular groups), and Graph Theory be core courses for Electrical Engineering + Computer Science + Computer Engineering students, or at least to be highly recommended courses by their Professors.

July 9, 2024: American University of Sharjah (AUS) has launched a Master of Science in Economics and Policy (MSEP) program in response to local and regional needs, fostering essential competencies crucial for a thriving knowledge-based economy. Admission is now open, with the first batch of students expected to start in Fall 2024.

July 8, 2024: I was touched by the words of our alumni, Salma Abdalla: “The diverse student body and lasting friendships I formed were crucial in shaping my character. Those years taught me resilience, openness, and the importance of connecting with people from different backgrounds.”.   This is who we are at the American University of Sharjah, and it seems we are succeeding.  

July 8, 2024: Ayman Badawi speaking Spanish; this is my second encounter with my new friend, a video-voice translator ( I must admit he is very friendly and supportive; we signed an MOU for further and future cooperation); my personal views on Data Science and Machine Learning, and the Palest. J. Math. (Original version in English, was given on June 28, 2024).

July 3, 2024: This is another Waw++, AUS is classified in Group 1 within the UAE’s Research Clusters, according to the National Higher Education Institutions Classification Framework.

July 3, 2024: Congratulation, Dr. John Montague, Associate Professor at the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) at American University of Sharjah (AUS), has won first prize in the History and Heritage category of the prestigious Listowel Writer’s Week awards in County Kerry, Ireland.

June 30, 2024: In the past (1995), in my opinion, the world was more reasonable when a drunk person and a womanizer person were in charge of the world.  Yeltsin is attacking the media face to face :)))).

June 28, 2024: Ayman Badawi Speaking Spanish: My first encounter with an AI  Video-Voice translator,  March 24, 2024, Online talk during the Southern Regional Algebra Conference 2024,  Houston, TX, USA, dubbed in Spanish

June 27, 2024: Chancellor of the American University of Sharjah (AUS ) Tod Laursen and chairman of the IEEE UAE Section Hussain Al-Ahmad have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) UAE Section to foster collaboration and technological innovation and enhance the educational and professional landscape for AUS faculty, students and IEEE members.

June 26, 2024: American University of Sharjah (AUS) industrial engineering student Muhammad Vidha has been awarded the Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD) JoAnne J. Trow Undergraduate Scholarship, a prestigious award recognizing academic excellence and leadership among first-year university students.

June 24, 2024:Two Scientists, Imad Abu-Yousef and  Sofian Kanan, at the American University of Sharjah, have developed two luminescent sensors that can detect minute quantities of toxic compounds containing phosphorus, such as pesticides and Chemical Warfare Agents (CWA). This technology improves upon what is currently available in the market.

June 17, 2024: Pictures with Wife + Daughter + The new member of the family"Sab3awi", Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3

June 16, 2024: Suhail Khoury speaking Russian:  Suhail Khoury talked to me today. I learned that he was in Ramallah; he had Shawarma from “Abu-Iskandar”, one of my favorite places in Ramallah; his nephew has an Electrical Engineering degree; the nephew used AI and made Suhail look like he was giving his talk in Russian. Definitely, it is the voice of Suhail, but I am not responsible for the AI if he is saying the right things… My next project will be to use AI and speak in at least 3 different languages.  Sorry for the details (I am not a “like” or “heart” click-person 😊))); here is the video.

June 13, 2024: This is Waw Waw ++, A 17-year-old computer engineering student at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), Ahmad AlQawasmi, who secured first place in the 2024 Dubai Customs IP Award for Schools and Universities in the Research category for bridging AI and intellectual property.

June 10, 2024:The American University of Sharjah (AUS) took a remarkable step toward including and encouraging all art forms by launching the Artist-in-Residence program.

June 10, 2024: Congratulations to Rasha Tawfik, Director of the AUS Academic Support Centre, for the prestigious position as Chair of the Global Initiatives Committee (GIC) of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA).

June 6, 2024: AUS registers significant rise in QS World Rankings 2025, ranking among top 22 percent of ranked global universities and among top three in the UAE

June 3, 2024: Congratulations to the College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD) for the many international awards and recognitions for 2024.

May 30, 2024: Congratulation : Dr. Hasan Al Nashash was awarded the Roderick French Distinguished Service Award at AUS. Personal comments: I worked with him in the FPC for the College of Business almost ten years ago. It was a pleasure. He is very polite, modest, and fair. I like him.  I hope it is not a one-direction feeling 😊)))

May 30, 2024: Congratulation to Dr. Sohail Dahdal, Head of the Department of Media Communication at AUS, for the hard work and

establishing First student-run agency in the region set to launch at AUS cultivating next generation of professionals in partnership with Sheraa and NNC

 

May 29, 2024: Congratulations to the ruler of Sharjah and founder of the AUS, Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi, for the prestigious Nile Award for the year 2024.

May 29, 2024: Congratulation to the prestigious Khalifa Award winners for the year 2024-2025: Omar Darwish, Manal Nadeem, Omar Al-Khazali from the and Kareem Hijazi.

May 23, 2024: Under the patronage of Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, the American University of Sharjah and the Emirates Scholar Center for Research and Studies will host an International Conference for Linguistic Intelligence from October 17 to 19, 2024. The conference aims to explore the intersections of linguistics, artificial intelligence and cultural development.

May 20, 2024: Congratulations to Dara Varam and Rohan Mitra (two of my best math students) for winning first place in the inaugural AI-City Quest Hackathon.

May 17, 2024: Congratulation: American University of Sharjah (AUS) has been ranked among the top 125 universities in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2024, marking a significant advancement from its previous position last year that placed it among the top 250 under 50 years of age.

May 17, 2024: We are all thankful to the AUS Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs and all the sponsors (Crescent Petroleum, Alef Group  Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC),  and  Shurooq) for their hard work and involvement in the Get Active for Education events.  Do not underestimate small contributions, I recall an Arabic saying: a single hair added to another, eventually becoming a beard. CLICK HERE  to contribute.

May 15, 2024: One more step ahead: AUS strengthens global collaboration through agreement with KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). In addition to the educational and research exchange agreements, AUS and KAIST aim to promote cultural understanding.I imagine the first step toward this is that Kim or Kang (the name is not mentioned, but most Koreans' Last name is Kim or Kang, so I have a 70% chance of being correct) wore "Kufiyyeh", and Fadi wore a suit.

May 8-13, 2025: 1. Three Research Centers. 2. Empowering youth collaboration for climate action, 3. Bodour Al Qasimi (president of the AUS) commends AUS students at annual appreciation awards ceremony, 4.AUS hosts inaugural UAE Engineering Deans Annual Symposium organized by CAA

May 12, 2024: AUS  cares; thank you, Chancellor Tod Laursen, for taking the initiative and establishing an AUS-Giving Website.  This is awesome.

May 7 , 2024: The American University of Sharjah (AUS) College of Engineering (CEN) recently hosted an Employer Appreciation Ceremony to express gratitude to 33 organizations that have steadfastly supported the college's internship programs, bridging the gap between academic theory and practical industry experience. Well-deserved.

May 6, 2024: Three new undergraduate scholarships ( President’s Scholarship, the Chancellor’s Scholarship and the Outstanding Academic Performance Scholarship) to attract and retain outstanding students. This deserves WAWWAW +++.

May 2, 2024: American University of Sharjah (AUS) architecture students Hend Ali Alshehhi and Rawan Ahmed Khedr, designed an individual project for a new Library in Ajman for their ARC 301 Studio course in Fall 2023. Their innovative designs earned international acclaim at the World Architecture Awards for their potential to enrich communities and inspire lives.

May 1, 2024: Waw Waw: Supported by Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation and Trustee of AUS,

AUS Library transforms into cultural hub with Arab art showcase.

April 29: Congratulations to all of us: American University of Sharjah (AUS) has made notable strides and is now positioned among the top 150 universities in Asia in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Ranking for 2024. This marks a significant advancement from its previous standing among the top 250 universities in Asia last year.

April 20, 2024: Revolutionizing architectural education: Decade-long Design Build Initiative at AUS wins international award

April 16, 2024: AUS (American University of Sharjah) secures top spots in academic and employer reputation in UAE, announces QS World University Rankings 2024 by Broad and Narrow Subjects and Mathematics is among the top 550.

April 15, 2024: This is so strange and I cannot find an explanation, this link appeared in April 1, 2024, but disappeared, today it is back!! :) :) Bouthaina Khaldi, Professor in Arabic and Translation Studies at American University of Sharjah (AUS), was recognized for her research in Arabic and comparative literature, women's authorship and cultural exchange.

April 13, 2024: My personal views on Data Science and Machine Learning and the Palest. J. Math.

April 9, 2024: Women and children in Gaza are determined to celebrate Eid Al-Fitr; I have no words to describe what I saw—all respect.

April 9, 2024: An American University of Sharjah (AUS) research team(led by Dr. Malick Ndiaye and Dr. Alia Al Sadawi) filed a provisional patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a blockchain system they developed to improve the carbon credits trading (CCT) market. 

April 5, 2024: WAW WAW WAW, MAN, I love it. It's brief and to the point. It is awesome.

April 5, 2024: The American Univ. of Sharjah and Michigan-Flint College of Innovation and Technology (UM-Flint) launch dual degree master's program: The agreement facilitates a 1+1 Program where AUS engineering students, upon completing the first year of their master’s degree program at AUS, are eligible to apply for admission to UM-Flint and complete their second year of master’s degree program there. 

March 27, 2024: In the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan, the American University of Sharjah (AUS) organized the "Suhoor Fund" to support outstanding students from Palestine, focusing on those facing financial difficulties in Gaza.

March 26, 2024: Congratulation. Aya Zabalawi, Hala Maadi, Ahmad AlShadid, and Hamza Khan are honered by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC).

March 25, 2024: Congratulation. Three Professors at the AUS ( Aloul, Shamayleh, and Awad) received honorable awards during an International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM).

March 22--24, 2024: My online talk, " Square-difference factor absorbing ideals in commutative rings," during the Southern Regional Algebra Conference 2024, Houston, TX, USA https://www.uhd.edu/documents/academi... The full paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18704

March 21, 2024: Dr. Joseph Graham, Assistant Professor of Art and Design at American University of Sharjah (AUS), has earned them the AMPS-INTELLECT Mediated City Prize (The nonprofit academic research organization, Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS), presents the AMPS-INTELLECT Mediated City Prize annually to scholars who demonstrate exceptional contributions to the fields of architecture, urbanism, media and technologies).

March 19, 2024: Bending with respect and admiration to the Humanist  Palestinian singer Dalal Abu Amneh:  One of my best spiritual meditation

March 14, 2024: To recognize academic excellence of the top performing students and alumni, American University of Sharjah (AUS) has launched the first international chapter of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.

March 1--2, 2024: AUS celebrates diversity under the theme "peace worldwide."

Feb 26, 2024: A Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Sharjah and the American University of Sharjah is established. The two institutions agreed to collaborate on faculty and student exchange programs, enabling further research and mobility options for graduate and undergraduate students.

Feb 26, 2024: AUS-Team, computer engineering students Ahmed Sharafath Ahamed Zibli and Nikita Miller, computer science student Rhea Srivastava and electrical engineering student Samrin Saleem, the team collaborated under the guidance of AUS College of Engineering advisors Dr. Ming Foey Teng, Dr. Salam Dhou and Donthi Sankalpa, alongside Dr. Yacine Hadijat from Dubai Healt, claims first prize in Arab Health 2024 Cre8 Competition with cutting-edge monitoring technology.

Feb 24, 2024: With AUS-Students in AL Quadra desert. In Theory, I was supposed to be the chaperone; in practice, I was chaperoned by the students ))))).

Feb 15, 2024: Kareem Morsi, a mechanical engineering alumnus from American University of Sharjah (AUS), is honored with the Excellence and Creative Engineering Award in the Outstanding Student Category by the UAE Society of Engineers for his myriad achievements in the field.

Feb 14, 2024: My birthday talk, some beautiful numbers: Fermat numbers, 998001, and pretending to be a magician at the end of my talk by performing some tricks.

Feb 13--14, 2024: Prof. Tarig Ali receives Earle J. Fennell Award  and Christianna Bonin Curates Art Dubai Modern

Feb 11, 2024: No Comments.

 

Feb. 9, 2024: Prof. Fadi Aloul, Dean of the AUS College of Engineering,  published a video featuring 22 groundbreaking projects by 33 outstanding faculty

Feb. 3, 2024: Emel Mathlouthi, Tunisian-American Singer.

January 31, 2024: No Comments.

January 29, 2024: Led by Dr. Noha Hussein, Professor in Industrial Engineering, the NextGen Innovators Hub is part of the CEN Innovation Program launched by Dr. Fadi Aloul, Dean of CEN, in Fall 2023 to enhance engineering students’ educational experience and strengthen CEN's community engagement.  

January 29, 2024: After 16 years of extensive exploration and testing, AUS- research team led by Dr. Dr. Sherif Yehia from the AUS Department of Civil Engineering and Dr. Nasser Qaddoumi from the AUS Department of Electrical Engineering design concrete mix that can protect buildings from electronic sabotage.

January 18, 2024: In a world where the search for a revolutionary cancer treatment to save lives is of paramount importance, an American University of Sharjah (AUS) research team (Prof. Ghaleb Husseini and Prof. Mohammad Al-Sayah) has successfully secured a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a pioneering chemotherapy treatment model.

January 17, 2024: AUS Board of Trustees member Prof. Daniele Struppa( expert on Fourier Analyses) delivered a theoretical talk on "Super oscillations" at the AUS Campus. Prof. Struppa is the 13th president of Chapman University in Orange, California (note that if U send A to the front of S, we get USA , weird Badawi, I know) .

January 9, 2024: A surprised encounter: My Russian friend and colleague,  Farid Khafizov,  at the University of North Texas, USA (Ph.D. in Logic and Set Theory), gave me the Russian name “Aymanov.” We lost connection after 1999. Pic1, Pic2.

January 2, 2024 : Palestine J. Math launched a new section to publish pieces of exposition (covering mathematical issues in higher education, past figures of mathematics, and mathematical curiosities) and edited by Professor Peter Larcombe (The University of Derby, UK),  p.j.larcombe@derby.ac.uk to whom submissions may be made.  

January 1, 2024: She made up my first day of 2024, but what the F…cut? Are you kidding me? You are well educated and telling the truth, and most likely, people like you will not make it to Congress!

December 25, 2023: Professor Syed Tariq Rizvi (Algebraist) at the Ohio State University died. God bless his soul. An International Conference was held in 2021 dedicated to him. I presented a talk dedicated to him. He was an editor of the Palestine J. Math.

December 21, 2023: Starting Spring 2024, the MBA at the AUS will be available through a blended learning format, combining face-to-face and online components.

December 18, 2023: Our new chancellor Tod Laursen is a poet too, I TRULY and HONESTLY love what he said (as AUS ranked 3 in UAE

in sustainability): “We continuously work on fostering a culture that values environmental stewardship, social equity and economic resilience. This is a dynamic journey, a continuous effort to inspire and equip the next generation with the knowledge and tools needed to shape a future where both humanity and the Earth thrive in harmony,”  I  wish we do. My bad experience with people calling for environmental protection is this (2014): click. Still, I must admit the new generation is more humane and aware of things than my generation. I put it in simple street language: “Better to try than do nothing about it.”  

December 9, 2023: We are proud of our math student Furzeen Kamran | Summa Cum Laude (graduated Fall 2023); she was my awesome Discrete Math Grader. I stole her picture from the net.

December 9, 2023: No Comments

December 8, 2023: Spencer Secord, Ph.D. from Waterloo University Canada (2022), proved the Anderson-Badawi Conjecture: n-absorbing ideal implies strongly n-absorbing ideal (25 pages in print). CONGRATULATION.

December 8, 2023: In memory of the one who imagined, John Lennon : October 9, 1940--December 8, 1980.

December 5, 2023: We are proud of our student, Dr. Mohammed Kaabar, from Gaza, Palestine; he finished his PhD in Applied Math, specializing in Fractional Calculus. Now working at a private university in Uzbekistan, I met him online; click for  Pic.

December 1, 2023: On the occasion of the UAE National Day, I offer all respect to the Emirati Professor Fadi Aloul, Dean of CEN at the AUS, for his contribution to science, community, students, and UAE. Click for his CV. Man, I really feel so small. I am jealous but in a positive way!

November 30, 2023: External Examiner to Dr. Farah Omar's PhD thesis on Commutative Algebra at Granada University, Spain. Dr. Farah Omar received her B.S. in Math from  Birzeit University, Palestine: pic 1, pic 2, pic 3, pic 4, pic 5, I suppose to be there as part of my sabbatical, but my visa did not come out; damn, the world is changing; I used to get a visa to Europe in Max 5 days.

November 27, 2023: WAW WAW WAW, our talented student Omar Al-Khazali (double major in Math and Computer Science) is in the news again. Note that he presented a math seminar on October 26, 2022. Click here

November 15, 2023: We are proud of our undergraduate Math student, Dr. Noora Alsaeed, she completed her PhD in Astrophysics and Planetary Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado-USA. Presently, she is working as a Senior Space Science Researcher at the UAE Space Agency in Abu Dhabi, she presented a talk at the AUS on November 15, 2023. She was kind enough and agreed to take a picture with me

Nov 6--8, 2023.The First Sharjah International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, my good friend

Najib MAHDOUwill be one of the keynote speaker, Nov 6--Nov 8, 2023.

October 27, 2023: In pure Mathematics, we often create problems and try to solve them, and sometimes it takes years and even hundreds of years before a solution is found.  So, a scary thought came to me: What do politicians do? Damn, this is scary! I have no words to describe the madness that we are witnessing. Thanks to the Country singer Garth Hewitt for this song, click here.

September 29, 2023: My talk to the Math Club at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA.

September 18, 2023: This is a rare video for Farid Al-Atrash and Abdel Halim Hafiz. I was dancing in my room listening to this song. Songs are like pure mathematics, let you live in a fancy beautiful world, but I got depressed when I remembered the reality of the Arab World.

September 12, 2023: AUS will have a new chancellor, effective October 16, 2023., Tod A. Laursen

September 10, 2023: Our heart and sympathy with the Moroccan and Libyan people, the worst natural disasters since a century ago.

August 8, 2023: A brief glimpse into the good old days, Om-Kalthoum and Abdel-Halim, just once in a lifetime.

July 18, 2023: Suheel Khoury talked to me, complaining that the views for the first video I posted for him on YOUTUBE went down from 700+  to  500+.   His research reveals that YouTube will increase views by one if you watch at least  60% of the video, “clicking on then off within seconds” will be detected by YouTube and will not be counted.  He sent me this video, this time in Russia, and asked me to post it, hoping he would get more views. If you are not in this area of research, I recommend that you do as I do, I will let it run on mute in the background for 25 minutes, then close it, so it will be counted as viewed.  From the video, I noticed  “Alexi” is a big fan and a follower of Suheel; here is the video. Click here.

July 10--15, 2023: An Algebra Conference was held in Fes-Morocco from July 12-15, 2023 in honor of my lifetime friend and companion since the age of  -9 months, Ayman Badawi; click here. Scopus Indexed Springer Proceedings will publish a proceeding if you like to contribute with a research paper or a survey article (even if you did not attend such a conference). Click here.   Note that Proceedings of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society (South Korea) will publish a particular issue for this conference, but only conference attendees can submit papers presented at the meeting or new papers.

July 6, 2023: Dr. Amani Al-Othman from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Mehdi Ghommem from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Rami Hawileh from the Department of Civil Engineering have recently been appointed as endowed chairs  in recognition of their exceptional achievements in research, teaching and industry collaboration.

July 5, 2023: AUS-Students: Omar Ibrahim,  Mohammed Desouki, and Razan Aylouche won international acclaim on their film Naseeb (Kismet).

July 1, 2023: I called  Suheel Khoury, wishing him a happy Eid al-Adha, I learned that he was in Armenia and Russia, and he gave me the link to a talk that he presented in Armenia, click here; he told me that he is conducting research with researchers in a Russian-center (Knowing suheel, maybe soon, he will establish a senate inside the center, “Allah Yostor” )))))) )

July 1, 2023: In an ideal world, this is how the faculty handbook should be; however, since humans are running the REAL world, multiple pages are needed.

June 19, 2023: Dr. Mohammed Jaradat, Professor in Mechanical Engineering and a mechatronics graduate program faculty at American University of Sharjah (AUS), has put robotics at the center of his research, seeking and producing AI practical solutions that address real-world problems in areas of computational intelligence, transportation and renewable energy.  Personal comment: I hope that this research did not replace some Jobs.

June 9, 2023: I am proud of my Son Nadeem; he received a certificate as the most valuable player among the new employees (MVP) at Enterprise Rent a Car, Dallas, USA. As he was growing up, I gave him one piece of advice: if you want to be a trash man, this is perfectly fine with me, but be a good one (however, internally, I want him to be a mathematician).

June 9, 2023: Congratulation to  Rohan Mitra, who graduated summa cum laude with a double major in computer science and mathematics. He was one of my best students in Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory.

 

June 5, 2023: A 2012 AUS graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Dr. Nameer Al Khafaf has been awarded the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Prize for Research Excellence – Higher Degree by Research Award 2022 for his research on integrating renewable energy sources into existing power grids.

May 15, 2023: During my recent research on “Tarab, the good old days,” I came across a beautiful voice that I never heard about,  Ruba Al-Jamal (1966-2005). I learned that her life was a human tragedy, and the life dice played against her. She died at age 39.

May 10, 2023: Our exceptional, talented student Omar Al - Khazali (Math and Computer Science) and his team received first place during an international competition at NYUAD.

May 10, 2023: Professor Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali's research on smart cities and IoT-based platforms contributes to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

May 10, 2023: We are proud of our college of engineering and their students.

March 27-April 1, 2023: Visiting my wife and son, in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

March 24-26, 2023: My talk during the Southern Regional Algebra Conference (SRAC), Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

March 20, 2023: Invited talk (the second upside down talk)"On n-pseudo valuation domains, during a symposium on "Algebra and Number Theory", National Institute of Technology Nagaland, Chumukedima, Dimapur, India.

March 20, 2023: The good old days, Tarab Arabic Songs, the best of Sama, AUS (American University of Sharjah) performing Artists under the supervision of Dr. Albert Agha

March 17, 2023: Renowned AUS professor Dr. Ghaleb Hussein presents breakthroughs in targeted drug delivery for cancer treatment

March 10, 2023: Another reason to consider the AUS for your study, we at the AUS celebrate diversity, all people of different colors, races, and nationalists.

March 8, 2023: Happy International Women day. My wife is a very smart woman with a multi-task brain. A testimony of her smartness, she chose me as a husband ( I know, I am very modest :) ).

Feb 20--27, 2023: Plenary speakers of the XXXVIII SIDIM at The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez: Felix Gotti (MIT), Irena Swanson (Purdue), and Ayman Badawi (AUS-Sharjah). The conference webpage is here

Feb. 28: 2023: AUS students tackle cybersecurity issues in CPTC national competition

Feb. 16, 2023: The AUS was the host of Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Christopher Pissarides.

Feb. 14, 2023: Celebrating my 60th birthday by giving a talk on the beauty of some numbers.

Feb. 6, 2023: Our prayers and sympathy with the people in Turkey and Syria, the worst earthquake since 1939.

Feb, 2, 2023: Tarab night, Tala Zeno, at Al-Meshwar-Dubai, with my wife Rawya and her group at the Ohio State University, USA, and my son Nadeem.

 

Feb. 1, 2023: My student, Yasmeen El-Ashi's Thesis, is published here

January 29, 2023: His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed AlQasimi, Supreme Council Member, Ruler of Sharjah and Founder of AUS, has approved the appointment of Her Excellency Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan bin Mohammed AlQasimi as the new President of AUS. She will also serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees.

January 18--20, 2023: Invited talk "Beautiful results in number theory I" at Manipal University, Manipal, India, during the conference International Conference on Number Theory and Graph Theory (ICNG-2023)

January 12-13, 2023: Plenary speaker, Remembering Muhammad Zafrullah: my informal talk during the International E-Conference of Young Researchers in Algebra and Number Theory-2023, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Fez, Morocco.

January 6-8, 2023: I teach my courses backward. So this is my first upside-down talk.

Plenary speaker for the International Conference on Algebra, Analysis and Application(.Hybrid mode, both online and offline mode)

Department of Mathematics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.

The full paper is available here.

December 25, 2023: Professor Syed Tariq Rizvi (Algebraist) at the Ohio State University died. God bless his soul. An international conference dedicated to him was organized in 2021. I presented a talk dedicated to him during the conference . He was on the editorial board of the Palestine J. Math.

 

January 5, 2023: AUS-Alumna Sidiqa Sohail is an inspiring story.

December 19, 2022: I've been granted a sabbatical in the fall of 2023.

December 16, 2022: JUST WAW, WAW, this is an honor for all AUS-community:

CBUAE issues commemorative coins on the occasion of the American University of Sharjah Silver Jubilee

December 13, 2022: Shahbaz Ahmad, a student in the AUS PhD in Materials Science and Engineering  program, and supervised by renowned physics professors Dr. Mehmet Egilmez and Dr. Ali Alnaser, has been successful in cultivating the hydrogen generation efficiency of copper electrodes when the surface of these electrodes is processed with an intense femtosecond laser. 

December 12, 2022:  College of Engineering in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences

 launches PhD in Biosciences and Bioengineering.

December 2, 2022: On the occasion of the 51st UAE National Day, As a member of the AUS community, thank you, Dr. Sultan AlQasimi, ruler of Sharjah, for the continuous support of education and research.

November 24, 2022: I was one of the juries on Prof. Moutui’s promotion case to full Professor ( Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) at Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France, Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4

November 10, 2022: Dr. Mehdi Ghommem, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at American University of Sharjah (AUS), on the use of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) in mass sensing applications has been recently published in the renowned Journal of Applied Physics and distinguished as the Editor’s Pick.

November 10, 2022: Amaal Abdulraqeb Ali, a biomedical engineering graduate student in the College of

Engineering, under the supervesion of Professors Mohammad Al-Sayah, Amani Al-Othman and

Hasan Al-Nashash develops model to prevent muscle atrophy

 

November 4, 2022: Our AUS friends organized a surprising fair-well party for my wife on November 4, 2022 as she is

moving to the Ohio State University

November 1, 2022: John E. Katsos of the American University of Sharjah (AUS) School of Business Administration (SBA) was presented recently with the Lawrence Forman Award from Haverford College for his ongoing research and community engagement in promoting peace and business in conflict zones

October 29, 2022: " Some results on graphs from rings," invited speaker for Progress in Mathematics towards Industrial Application (PMTIA-2022), India

October 28, 2022: Sukoon group: Dr. Albert Agha and his students (former AUS students: Rand, Tala, Sama, Rimaz, and Laith), perform at Al Owais Theatre, Dubai. The good old day's songs

October 26, 2022: Omar Al-Khazali, an undergraduate student in mathematics and computing at AUS, talks about an approach to finding the longest path of a tree.

October 24, 2022: I am on the two lists as one of the AUS researchers named among top two percent of global researchers (Scientists).

September 17 and October 15, 2022: Our former AUS-student Tala Zeno, Tarab Arabic Songs,

every Thursday and Saturday at Almeshwar-Dubai, Excellent food, and Arjeela

 

Open access Journals :) no comments !

 

October 6, 2022: The Palestinian (mmm, not sure, if mentioning the nationality of a student is considered to be politically correct ! :)))))))) anyway, I continue) Multimedia student Tasneem Abdelfattah from American University of Sharjah has been named Regional Winner of the Global Undergraduate Awards–Visual Arts category for turning an existential conversation about time into a computer game. 4 O’Clock is a first-person narrative 3D game that discusses the speed at which time passes, and presents topics including work, time and death.

September 29, 2022: Dr. Rached Dhaouadi, Professor in Electrical Engineering and Petrofac Research Chair in Renewable Energy at American University of Sharjah (AUS), is currently working on two novel research projects in control systems utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

September 27, 2022: (If you are not famous, then you claim that you know a famous person :),

He was in my MTH 111, and we had fascinating philosophical points of view in my office) Sahil Rattha Singh: Throughout his five years of studies at AUS’s College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD), Rattha has won 20 major  regional and international design awards and is about to embark on the opportunity of a lifetime–an internship under the mentorship of renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

 

September 5, 2022: Dr. Mostafa Shaaban, Associate Professor and Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim, Professor in Electrical Engineering at AUS have developed a novel mathematical model that determines the appropriate time to clean solar panels of dust accumulation, leading to an increase in energy generation.

August 15, 2022: The AUS community is paying tribute to the life and work of Dr. Roderick “Rod” French, the founding Chancellor of the American University of Sharjah (AUS). Dr. French passed away on June 23, 2022 at the age of 93.

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July 25--August 9, 2022: Visiting Palestine and Jordan

..................... July 25-July 28: Visiting the old city of Nablus, and Najah University, WestBank, Palestine

............ July 27 : Visiting my village Dair Istiya, 22 km from Nablus, and the Family old house, WestBank, Palestine

......... July 20--August 1: I presented a 40-minutes talk during the seventh Palestinian Conference on Math and Physics, Birzeit University, Palestine

....... August 3 : Visiting the old city of Jerusalem with my brother and his wife.

... August 1--August 4: Staying with my brother and his family, the pre-engagement party of my niece Zeina

.. .. August 6: Visiting Jarash, Jordan, with my nephew Firas

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July 28, 2022: Another remarkable Commutative Ring Theorist Muhammad Zafrullah died. Google scholar, and for his complete record see AMS Math Science Net

July 14--15, 2022: "Develomnents on absorbing ideals of commutative rings." Invited speaker for the International Conference on Mathematics and Its Applications (ICMA 2022), Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. https://icma2022.tdtu.edu.vn/ Kang(Philosopher and Ring Theorist), pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4, pic5

July 5, 2022: Palestinian architect and designer Samar Halloum From AUS to Yale and beyond

July 5, 2022: Fields Medals awarded to Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, James Maynard, and Maryna Viazovska ( the second woman to win a Fields Medal after Maryam Mirzakhani).

June 29, 2022: Prof. Jamal Abdullah, Professor in Civil Engineering and Riad Sadek Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering at American University of Sharjah, (AUS) was named Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Fellow in recognition of his leadership and mentorship in the field of structural engineering. Prof. Jamal A. Abdalla AD Scientific Index 2022

June 24, 2024: As an outcome of my AUS-research grant FRG 20, AS1614 ( one course release), The n-zero-divisor graph of a commutative semigroup is published online in Communications in Algebra

June 22-23: Invited speaker, "The N-zero divisor graph of a commutative semigroup," 4th International Conference on Pure and Applied Mathematics ICPAM-VAN, Turkey, Program

 

June 17, 2022: my daughter Raneem graduated from high school with honor (95.2%) from the Sharjah American International Private School, Dubai-Branch

June 13, 2022: Dr. Sultan Alqasimi (Ruler of Sharjah) approves 100 million AED research budget

June 12, 2022: My Son Nadeem graduated with MBA in business administration with a 3.64 GPA from the University of Oregon, Eugine, USA

June 1, 2022: Another AUS success story. Dr. Ala Douba completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Columbia University, NewYork, USA in May 2022. Dr. Douba accepted a post-doctor position at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, starting July 2022. He was our student with a double major in Civil Engineering and Mathematics, he was my student in abstract algebra, and he completed his senior math project under my direction.

May 28, 2022: AUS researcher (Dr. Randa Asa'd) leads an international collaboration studying chemical compositions of distant galaxies.

May 11, 2022: Rest in peace, Shireen Abu Akleh (beloved Palestinian Journalist, January 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022). You left this heathen civilized world!

May 10, 2022: Keynote speaker, "Pi-regular rings and periodic rings," Tarbiat Modares University (Teheran, Iran), International Conference on Noncommutative Algebra and its Applications (link), The program is available here

May 9, 2022: AUS top in UAE for studies in architecture and design, QS World University Subject Rankings reveal

May 9: Rohan Metra and Dara Varam my favorite and best students in Abstract Algebra

and Graph Theory presented their senior project in the new Engineering-Building room 1011.

Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4.

 

May 6, 2022: Meeting Martin Bohner and Colleagues.

May 5, 2022: Invited speaker, "Absorbing ideals in commutative rings," , INTERNATIONAL E-CONFERENCE ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (ICPAMS-2022) 04-07 May 2022. Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia University, Jijel 18000, Algeria (link). The Program is available here

May 1, 2022: For all truthful Muslims, Eid Mubarak, may every year find you in good health. We all pray that the 4th world war will not be faught by sticks.

April 28, 2022: AUS researchers with top research productivity(Jamal Abdallah on the left, Rami Hawileh on the right and and Riad Sadek with no picture) focus on boosting structural performance and sustainable construction materials

April 24, 2022: The distinguished Commutative Ring Theorist Daniel D. Anderson died this morning. My colleague Jim Coykendall and I published this book honoring his work that appeared on March 12, 2022. From his twin brother David, we learned that Dan did see the book a few days before his departure. For dan complete work, click here

April 21, 2022: AUS engineering programs rank first in employability reputation in the UAE and advance in global rankings

April 19, 2022: Dr. Amani Al-Othman, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at American University of Sharjah, is working on developing membrane materials for energy production and water purification technology.

 

April 18, 2022: Dr. Ahmed Mokhtar from the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) at American University of Sharjah (AUS) has developed improved standards for mosques and public prayer facilities for sustainable outcomes.

 

April 11, 2022: Another AUS success story. Dr. Hossam Shoman completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in October 2020 and now working with Nokia. he was our student with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, he was my student in abstract algebra, and he completed his senior math project under my direction.

 

April 5, 2022: No comments, I am speechless, I feel so small, Google Scholar (Click)

 

March 24-30, 2022: One week Sabbatical in heaven, Eugene, Oregon, USA, visiting my son

Nadeem (Braxen Lake, Crater lake, Cannon Beach, University of Oregon,

5.7 miles trail (10 fountains)), my second trip outside United Arab Emirates since Feb 9, 2020.

 

March 20, 2022: AUS-ICMS 2020, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 6–9 , Proceedings (Editors: Ayman Badawi and Jim Coykendall) of the special session Rings, Monoids and Module Theory, in honor of Daniel D. Anderson , organized by Ayman Badawi

March 18-20: I presented a talk during the annual Southern Regional Algebra Conference (SRAC 2022), Milledgevillle, GA, USA, program ( I forgot to record the first 10 minutes )

Feb 14, 2022: My birthday Talk, "Amazing Numbers," suitable for all ages 17 years old and above, American University of Sharjah.

Feb 6--8, 2022: Invited Talk, N-ZERO-DIVISOR GRAPH OF A COMMUTATIVE SEMIGROUP, Feb 6--8, 2022, Dubai, ICGCO

January 27-28, 2022: Invited Talk, ON DOMAINS WHICH HAVE PRIME IDEALS THAT ARE LINEARLY ORDERED, Jan. 27-28, 2022, India. ICCSPAM2022.

December 2, 2021: On the occasion of the UAE’s Golden Jubilee, we all thankfull to the UAE in the way it is handiling this pandemic (i.e., almost 100% of population are vaccinated, I personally took 2 shots of the Aisian-Vaccine (China) and 2 shots of the European-American-Vaccine.

November 23, 2021: Palestine J. Math Vol 11 (1), 2022 is published (ahead of time).

November 14, 2021: I am a co-author (with David F. Anderson, T. Asir, and T. Tamizh Chelvam) of a first book in the literature "Graphs from Rings."

October 30, 2021: Meeting Martin Bohner and Colleagues.

October 28, 2021: Keynote Speaker (or speaker) (On 1-absorbing primary ideals of commutative rings), 27th International Conference of International Academy of Physical Sciences (CONIAPS XXVII) on Recent Advances in Pure & Applied Algebra (RAPAA-2021)

October 27, 2021: Keynote speaker (or Speaker :) ), ( On graphs arises from Number Theory),

27th International Conference of International Academy of Physical Sciences (CONIAPS XXVII)

On Graph Theory and Applications (GTA 2021)

October 22, 2021: Keynote speaker ( On the total graph of a commutative ring without the zero element), First International Conference on Mathematics and Computation

October 11, 2021: Keynote speaker (On the total and unit dot product graphs of commutative rings), International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (ICDM 2021)

October 8, 2021: Keynote speaker (A characterization of normal subgroups via n-closed sets) at the Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-2021) Conference

October 8, 2021: Robert Gilmer died (JULY 3, 1938 – OCTOBER 8, 2021), one of the prophets of Commutative Rings. Among the many treasures that he left the bible of Commutative Rings "Multimplicative Ideal Theory".

Sept 24-27, 2021: (CLICK HERE for the talk)Keynote speaker at ICRAPAM 2021 (hybrid), Bodrum, TURKEY. For the Conference webpage CLICK HERE. Title of the talk " The generalized total graph of a commutative ring." For the full paper (free) CLICK HERE

August 18-22, 2021 (Covid-19+): Visiting Armenia with my son Nadeem, my first trip outside UAE since Feb 15, 2020

July 19-24, 2021 (Covid-19+) : My 15th Webinar talk during the hybrid-Conference on Rings and Polynomials, Graz, Austria , Slides of my talk, Program.

July 17, 2021(Covid-19+): I received a very warm email from the Director of Research Chair at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals asking me if I am interested in the "Star-Faculty" postition. However, I decided to stay a "planet-faculty" at the AUS.

July 16, 2021 (Covid-19+): Meeting Mohammad Abdulla (my student in Graduate Abstract Algebra I, II, and master thesis): currently working on his PhD in Functional Analysis at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

July 7, 2021 (Covid-19+): My 14th webinar talk at Noncommutative rings and their applications, online conference dedicated to Tariq Rizvi( Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, of the Lima campus of The Ohio State University, USA, and an editor of the Palestine J. Math), Artois University, Lens, France. Program

.July 3, 2021 (Covid-19+) : Meeting Reem Mahmoud (my student in Abstract Algebra I, II, and undergraduate senior project): Currently working on her PhD in Graph Theory at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. She has one publication with her advisor, click here, and she gave a talk on graphs, click here

June 26, 2021 (Covid-19+): M. Said Alghabra (the same person below) was so modest and he acceepted to meet me. He was my student in Discrete Math and my Grader for at least 2-consecutive semesters (He told me that the pigean hole principle was the key for his success (of course you know I am KIDDING :) ). We are so proud of M. Said Alghabra.

June 23, 2021 (Covid-19+) M. Said Alghabra, Rami Ali, Ali Alnaser, Mazhar Iqbal, and Vyacheslav Kim, from the Department of Physics at my University (AUS)  in collaboration with renowned scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, and Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India provide new insights into how living matter originated

June 22, 2021(Covid-19+): My 13th webinar keynote speaker "ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN RING THEORY AND GRAPH THEORY ,"at the University of Bahrain, Program.

 

June 16, 2021(Covid-19+): The first three PhD receptients at AUS: Mustafa Al-Tekreeti, Hasan Mahmoud and Taha Anjamrooz successfully defended their dissertations for the PhD in Engineering Systems Management.

June 3, 2021(Covid-19+): A dream that comes true: Palestine J. Math appeared officially on Scopus

June 1, 2021(Covid-19+) : Appreciation Message from AUS-Students

May 26, 2021(Covid-19+): Another AUS success story. I attended the final defense of our AUS-Alumnus Dr. Hussain Ibdah Phd thesis in Mathematics under the direction of Professor Edriss Titi (well-known Mathematician) at Texas A&M. Dr. Ibdah accepted a post-doctor position at the University of Maryland, USA, starting July 2021. For some pictures: Pic1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 8, Pic 9.

May 20-21, 2021(Covid-19+): Be on the right side of history "Story of Palestine in less than 2 minutes" by the generation of Tik Tok. Never too late, see it here.

May 19, 2021(Covid-19+): AUS-An Evening of Virtual Music "TARAB ARABIC MUSIC", Spring 2021

May 19, 2021(Covid-19+): Alumnus Dr. Mohamed Wehbi credits AUS faculty for post-university success

May 12, 2012(Covid-19+): I attended the virtual session of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) on  Celebration of Women in Mathematics, with special attribute to the field's model winner Maryam Mirzakhani (Iranian Mathematician, May 12, 1977-- July 14, 2017).

May 1, 2021(Covid-19+): Meeting with Taha Ameen ur Rahman who graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA from AUS in December 2019, embarked on a new journey in Fall 2020 to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he recently received the prestigious James Henderson Fellowship

April 29, 2021 (Covid-19+): AUS-Sharjah is the home of another successfull story: Taha Ameen ur Rahman is no stranger to success. The electrical engineering and mathematics double major (he took Abstract Algebra I, II, and senior Math Project with me) who graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA from AUS in December 2019, embarked on a new journey in Fall 2020 to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he recently received the prestigious James Henderson Fellowship

April 28, 2021(Covid-19+): Ashith Farhan, Rohan Mitra, Sabbir Alam and Ahmed Sharafath are the 2021 winners of the top-honors - AUS- Programming- Contest: (Rohan Metra and Sabbir Alam are currently my students in Graph Theory 418)

April 13, 2021(Covid-19+): American University of Sharjah-Performing Arts: "Ramadan Mubarak."

April 10,2021 (Covid-19+): My student Rohan Mitra's talk "Program To Find The Permutation Matrix That Shows If Two Graphs Are Isomorphic From Their Adjacency Matrices," during the 3rd AUS Regional Students' Conference 21, American University of Sharjah, UAE. For the AUS-Article about the conference, click HERE

April 9,2021 (Covid-19+): I was awarded a course release + 5000 AED (to be used for conferences) through the Faculty Research Grant 2021, FRG-21

March 29, 2021(Covid-19+): Architecture students from American University of Sharjah (AUS) were awarded first, second and third place for their original designs for a sustainable floating school in a flood-impacted area of Bangladesh, as part of a semester-long Climate Change Challenge initiated by Fatima bint Hazza Foundation.

March 24, 2021(Covid-19+): AUS students design an IoT-based smart cane for people with visual impairments

March 19-21(Covid-19+): My 12th webinar talk at Southern Regional Algebra Conference (SRAC 2021),Milledgeville, Georgia, USA. , Algebraists are unique! This is an annual event, NO REGISTRATION FEES (not matter face to face or online) and each talk is 25 minutes (20 + 5).

March 13, 2021 (Covid-19+) : Thanks to the hard work of the organizing committee of AUS-MATH-Fest: Ghada, Cristian, Diana, Issam, Saadia, Sadok, and Stephen. Some of the talks had direct impact on me as it shows here :)

March 4, 2021 (Covid-19+) : My 11th webinar talk, 20 minutes talk at 11th Conference on Graph Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics that was held at the University of Urmia, Iran, March 4-5, 2021

March 4, 2021 (Covid-19+): Meeting with Prof. Azmy Ackleh (Dean, Ray P. Authement College of SciencesRay P. Authement Eminent Scholar  and Endowed Chair in Computational Mathematics, University of Louisiana. Note he is not Ismael Haniyeh :) :) Proof. He is a christian Palestinian from Nasra)

Feb 22, 2021 (Covid-19+) : We are proud of our AUS-Alumna: Almost Dr.Abiya Ahmed, she will defend her PhD thesis in Education at Stanford University this April.

Feb 15, 2021 (Covid-19+): My Math 203 students surprised me during my lecture with "Happy Birthday Song"

Feb 14, 2021 (Covid-19+) : I celebrated my Birthday on Feb 14 by giving a general talk , open to everyone for all ages 16 years and above "Ramsey Number" (i.e., examples that illustrate the implication of a theorem) , the theory behind the talk can be found in this paper, click here

Feb 10, 2021 (Covid-19+) : My 10th Keynote speaker: Some results on annihilator graph of a commutative ring. International Virtual Conference on Discrete Mathematics 2021. Mangalore University, India. https://sites.google.com/view/icdm20-21/conference/schedule

Feb 9, 2021 (Covid-19+) : United Arab Emirates becomes the first Arab country to reach Mars.

Feb 8, 2021 (Covid-19+) : We are proud of our AUS-Alumna Dr. Ali Yasir Al-Attraqchi.

Feb 4, 2021 (Covid-19+): Meeting Hussain Ibdah, AUS-Alumna (Ph.D in Mathematics at Texas A.M)

Jan 31, 2021 (Covid-19+):  Siham El Najmi , an AUS-Alumna successfull story.

Jan 31, 2021 (Covid-19+): For the second year in a row, my sabbatical proposal was rejected.

Jan 29, 2021 (Covid-19+): My 9th webinar keynote speaker (55 minutes), 1-absorbing primary ideals, 4th International Conference, ICCSPAM-2021, (India).

Jan. 15, 2021 (Covid-19+): Ayman Badawi is supported by the American University of Sharjah Research Fund (FRG2019): AS1602 and Roswitha Rissner is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 28466 published " Ramsey numbers of partial order graphs (comparability graphs) and implications in ring theory," in Open Mathematics (open access, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus). You can read it on line. The PDF file is available here , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2020-0085

Jan. 14, 2021 (Covid-19+): Ayman Badawi, 8th webinar keynote speaker: Graphs attached to rings and partial order graphs (75 minutes), resource person for the Refresher Course on Mathematics (RC-MATHEMATICS) at the UGC – Human Resource Development Centre, University of North Bengal.

Jan. 13-14, 2021 (Covid-19+, Jan.14 at 1:24 am UAE-Time, Jan. 13 at 4:24pm Wahignton DC-time): Trump is impeached for second time.

Jan. 13, 2021 (Covid-19+): Prof. Ghaleb Husseini, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the College of Engineering (CEN) and Dana Gas Endowed Chair for Chemical Engineering, Professor Mohammad Al-Sayah, Professor of Chemistry at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and Chemical Engineering postgraduate alumna Amal Elsadig receive US patent for novel breast cancer treatment.

Jan 10, 2021(Covid-19+): There are goods in humanity. An inspiring story. My wife sent this video. I found it inspiring and I was touched by the story.

Jan. 9, 2021(Covid-19+): Trump's Twitter account suspended permanently. This reminds me with my favorite American smart comedian George Carlin. Once he said " When you are born into this world, you are given a ticket to the freak show. If you are born in America, then you get a front row seat." A fake account most likely will not work, he will be caught quickly, since as you may imagine that his first tweet will be "swearing on Twitter for closing down his account!".

Jan. 6, 2021(Covid-19+): Ayman Badawi: Slideshow of my village Deir-Istiya (dayr 'iistia, دير إستيا), Palestine. I lived there from age -9months old to 18 years old. More pieces of information about my village available here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Is...

Jan. 1, 2021 (Covid-19+): Sadly, 2021 started by declaring that Twenty-Twenty won!

December 30, 2020 (Covid-19): Prof. Nidhal Guessoum, Professor in Physics and Astronomy at American University of Sharjah (AUS), has been named one of the top 100 influential leaders in space exploration for 2021, according to international digital publisher RichTopia.

December 24, 2020 (Covid-19): Ayman Badawi, 7th Webinar Invited Speaker, "My Personal Views on Mathematics and Technology, ICCEMS 2020, Langkawi, Malaysia, Dec 24-25, 2020, https://www.iccems.com/v1/?id=0 .

December 18, 2020 (Covid-19): Ayman Badawi Selection: "TARAB" Arabic Music Performance during AUS-Fall-2020 Virtual Concert

December 9, 2020 (Covid-19): My student Saood Almarzooqi's Senior project Presentation.

December 5, 2020 (Cvod-19): Ayman Badawi, Sixth Webinar Keynote Speaker (40 minutes), International Conference on Recent Trends in Applied and Computational Mathematics-ICRTACM-2020," December 4-5, 2020, organized by the School of Applied Sciences, Department of Mathematics, REVA University, INDIA

November 7, 2020 (COVID-19): Mathematics is strong and brave, as they are seaching for a brave man to tell Trump "you are out." By just simple calculation (addition), Math. speaks out loudly: "Trump you are out". I just love Mathematics.

November 4, 2020 (COVID-19): How to find y_p (y-particular) when solving Linear Diff. Equation Using Laplace Transformations

September 30, 2020 (COVID-19): AUS student research wins top honors at Global Undergraduate Awards 2020

September 24, 2020 (COVID-19): Albert Agha and his students (AUS Sharjah Performing Arts ), amazing PERFORMANCE indeed!!, MAY, 2020: Enjoy "Real Tarab".

September 22, 2020 (COVID-19): Judging Panellist in the Mathematics Category of The Global Undergraduate Awards 2020 Academic Programme

September 15, 2020 (COVID 19):Ayman Badawi, Fifth Webinar Keynote Speaker (50 minutes), Five Days International e-Seminar on Recent Research in Mathematics, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS GITAM SCHOOL OF SCIENCE GITAM, BENGALURU, INDIA

September 4, 2020 (COVID 19):Ayman Badawi, Fourth Webinar Keynote Speaker (40 minutes), ICPAM-VAN 2020, http://icpam.yyu.edu.tr/speaker.html , Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, Turkey, Sept 3-5, Title: On n-absorbing ideals of commutative rings.

August 14, 2020 (COVID 19): On n-semiprimary ideals and n-pseudo valuation domains published on line, Communications in Algebra, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2020.1803345 (inexed in web of science (ISI) and Scopus)

August 12, 2020 (Covid 19): So proud of my son "Nadeem" received his diploma today "cum laude = 3.7"

August 12, 2020 (Covid 19): Dr. Imran Zualkernan and Dr. Fadi Aloul, along with students Eilaf Algebail, Mohamed El Refaay, Abdulkarim Ali and Omar El Sabaawon won the Best Short Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT) held in in Tartu, Estonia last month.

August 12, 2020 (Covid 19): Deena Kamel, an alumna of American University of Sharjah (AUS), has been awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. (Stay connected with the Math Community for more stable and secure Job :)))))))))))))))))))))

August 9, 2020 (Covid 19): Ayman Badawi, My personal views : On line exams and so on..

July 23, 2020(COVID-19): AUS research contributes to understanding cardiovascular disease through numerical modeling ( Dr. Youssef Belhamadia, Department of Mathematics)

July 15, 2020 (COVID-19): I enjoyed my "Espresso Coffee" during Zoom-Espresso-Beer-Math-Conference, meeting my Mathematician Colleagues and Friends on ZOOM.

July 10, 2020(Covid 19): Ayman Badawi, Third Webinar Keynote Speaker (40 minutes), http://icmase2020.com , Ankara, Turkey, July 9-10. Title: n-Pseudo valuation domains (a generalization of valuation domains), ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ UNIVERSITY TURKEY.

June 28, 2020 (Covid 19) : Great news for the Palestine J. of Math, it will be indexed in Scopus Database

June 24, 2020 (Covid 19): Ayman Badawi, my second webinar keynote speaker (45 minutes), 2nd International Conference on Algebra and Discrete Mathematics - ICADM2020, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, June 24-26, 2020.

June 10, 2020 (Covid 19): American Math Society is closed

June 7, 2020 (Covid-19): My first Webinar Keynote Speaker (45 minutes), in an International Webinar Conference on Recent Trends in Graph Theory, Alagappa University, India, May 29--30, 2020

June 1, 2020 (Covid-19): I am proud of my son Nadeem, he graduated with GPA 3.7 . He is covid-19 free, thanks to Trump-Covid-19-Bleach, he only took less than half a gallon, but for some one at my age (56 years), I took almost 2 gallons, only minor side effect, I got white beard.

Brown University has now become home to a faculty chair in Palestinian Studies. Named after Mahmoud Darwish, a towering and beloved figure of Palestinian and Arab literature and humanistic values, this chair is the first of its kind at a major research university.

"Tarab" Arabic Music Exclusively on www.ayman-badawi. com : (a) 2_min-Sama and Abood(Albert Agha), (b) 10_min_Sama_Abood (Albert Agha) (c) 3_min_Abood (Albert Agha), (d) 9_min_Abood (Albert Agha)

My FRG20 Proposal (Faculty Research Grant 2020) has been recommended for funding ( course release + 4000 AED)

Rings, Monoids and Module Theory, Feb 6--9, 2020, organized by Ayman Badawi (here at the AUS),

for the full program, click here For Pictures :) Click HERE

My Sabbatical-leave was denied for the spring 2021.

Wish you all a wonderful 2020 (a Special Year with Two Rings :) )

Attention: AUS celebrates fifth year as one of Arab World’s top 10 universities

Attention: To see and hear what our undergraduate students are saying about mathematics and about their life in the department  Click here

Attention: 3rd International AUS Math & Stat Conference to be held between Feb 6-9, 2020. Check the conference webpage CLICK HERE

Attention: Learn more about AUS (brief but to the point) Exclusive video interview with Björn Kjerfve, Former -AUS-Chancellor

Attention: If you are an outstanding student, then AUS will pay for most of your education , see details

Attention : Palestinian businessman and philanthropist Fathi J. Afana, CEO of Fast Building Contracting Company, has endowed an AED1 million scholarship fund for American University of Sharjah (AUS) students.

Attention: Husni Al Bayari, a graduate of the American University of Sharjah (AUS) Class of 2004, and CEO of D&B Properties pledges AED 100,000 annually towards scholarship

Attention: IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR ABBAS BAHRI FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, USA (He was an editor of the PJM)

More on the remarkable Mathematician ABBAS BAHR. For details about the fellowship Click here

Attention: (November 20, 2018, AUS Face the Music , Best of Amer El Didi and Sama ,TarabArabic Music), First Clip, Second Clip, Third Clip

May 5, 2019: Second Tarab Night with Amer Eldidi and Sama Clip 1, Clip 2, Clip 3, and Reemaz Clip

 

 

 

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Jan. 6, 2021(Covid-19+): Ayman Badawi: Slideshow of my village Deir-Istiya (dayr 'iistia, دير إستيا), Palestine. I lived there from age -9months old to 18 years old. More pieces of information about my village available here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Is...

December 24, 2020 (Covid-19): Ayman Badawi, 7th Webinar Invited Speaker, "My Personal Views on Mathematics and Technology, ICCEMS 2020, Langkawi, Malaysia, Dec 24-25, 2020, https://www.iccems.com/v1/?id=0 .

December 18, 2020 (Covid-19): Ayman Badawi Selection: "TARAB" Arabic Music Performance during AUS-Fall-2020 Virtual Concert

December 9, 2020 (Covid-19): My student Saood Almarzooqi's Senior project Presentation.

December 5, 2020 (Cvod-19):Ayman Badawi, Sixth Webinar Keynote Speaker (40 minutes), International Conference on Recent Trends in Applied and Computational Mathematics-ICRTACM-2020," December 4-5, 2020, organized by the School of Applied Sciences, Department of Mathematics, REVA University, INDIA

November 7, 2020 (COVID-19): Mathematics is strong and brave, as they are seaching for a brave man to tell Trump "you are out." By just simple calculation (addition), Math. speaks out loudly: "Trump you are out". I just love Mathematics.

November 4, 2020 (COVID-19): How to find y_p (y-particular) when solving Linear Diff. Equation Using Laplace Transformations

September 30, 2020 (COVID-19): AUS student research wins top honors at Global Undergraduate Awards 2020

September 24, 2020 (COVID-19): Albert Agha and his students (AUS Sharjah Performing Arts ), amazing PERFORMANCE indeed!!, MAY, 2020: Enjoy "Real Tarab".

September 22, 2020 (COVID-19): Judging Panellist in the Mathematics Category of The Global Undergraduate Awards 2020 Academic Programme

September 15, 2020 (COVID 19):Ayman Badawi, Fifth Webinar Keynote Speaker (50 minutes), Five Days International e-Seminar on Recent Research in Mathematics, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS GITAM SCHOOL OF SCIENCE GITAM, BENGALURU, INDIA

September 4, 2020 (COVID 19):Ayman Badawi, Fourth Webinar Keynote Speaker (40 minutes), ICPAM-VAN 2020, http://icpam.yyu.edu.tr/speaker.html , Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, Turkey, Sept 3-5, Title: On n-absorbing ideals of commutative rings.

August 14, 2020 (COVID 19): On n-semiprimary ideals and n-pseudo valuation domains published on line, Communications in Algebra, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2020.1803345(inexed in web of science (ISI) and Scopus)

August 12, 2020 (Covid 19): So proud of my son "Nadeem" received his diploma today "cum laude = 3.7"

August 12, 2020 (Covid 19): Dr. Imran Zualkernan and Dr. Fadi Aloul, along with students Eilaf Algebail, Mohamed El Refaay, Abdulkarim Ali and Omar El Sabaawon won the Best Short Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT) held in in Tartu, Estonia last month.

August 12, 2020 (Covid 19): Deena Kamel, an alumna of American University of Sharjah (AUS), has been awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. (Stay connected with the Math Community for more stable and secure Job :)))))))))))))))))))))

August 9, 2020 (Covid 19): Ayman Badawi, My personal views : On line exams and so on..

July 23, 2020(COVID-19): AUS research contributes to understanding cardiovascular disease through numerical modeling ( Dr. Youssef Belhamadia, Department of Mathematics)

July 15, 2020 (COVID-19): I enjoyed my "Espresso Coffee" during Zoom-Espresso-Beer-Math-Conference, meeting my Mathematician Colleagues and Friends on ZOOM.

July 10, 2020(Covid 19): Ayman Badawi, Third Webinar Keynote Speaker (40 minutes), http://icmase2020.com , Ankara, Turkey, July 9-10. Title: n-Pseudo valuation domains (a generalization of valuation domains), ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ UNIVERSITY TURKEY.

June 28, 2020 (Covid 19) : Great news for the Palestine J. of Math, it will be indexed in Scopus Database

June 24, 2020 (Covid 19): Ayman Badawi, my second webinar keynote speaker (45 minutes), 2nd International Conference on Algebra and Discrete Mathematics - ICADM2020, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, June 24-26, 2020.

June 10, 2020 (Covid 19): American Math Society is closed

June 7, 2020 (Covid-19): My first Webinar Keynote Speaker (45 minutes), in an International Webinar Conference on Recent Trends in Graph Theory, Alagappa University, India, May 29--30, 2020

June 1, 2020 (Covid-19): I am proud of my son Nadeem, he graduated with GPA 3.7. He is covid-19 free, thanks to Trump-Covid-19-Bleach, he only took less than half a gallon, but for some one at my age (56 years), I took almost 2 gallons, only minor side effect, I got white beard.

June 1, 2020 (Covid-19) : Brown University has now become home to a faculty chair in Palestinian Studies. Named after Mahmoud Darwish, a towering and beloved figure of Palestinian and Arab literature and humanistic values, this chair is the first of its kind at a major research university.

March 11, 2020: "Tarab" Arabic Music Exclusively on www.ayman-badawi. com : (a) 2_min-Sama and Abood(Albert Agha), (b) 10_min_Sama_Abood (Albert Agha) (c) 3_min_Abood (Albert Agha), (d) 9_min_Abood (Albert Agha)

Feb 25, 2020 : CAAD faculty receive international recognition for outstanding teaching

Feb 24, 2020 : My FRG20 Proposal (Faculty Research Grant 2020) has been recommended for funding ( course release + 4000 AED).

Feb 24, 2020: Dr. Kim Gleason and Becky Beamer, both faculty members of American University of Sharjah (AUS), achieved Best in Competition at the 2020 BEA Festival of Media Arts in the category of International Faculty Documentary

Feb 17, 2020: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS AUS-ICMS ‘20 February 6, 2020 to February 9, 2020 (Special session on rings, monoids, and module theory organized by Ayman Badawi and of course his camera :)))))

Feb 14, 2020: Son unlike father part 1 :) my son made it in the news at Lynn Univ (it seems that I raised him well, but I am a corrupt "preacher "when it comes to smoking, I preached that smoking is bad and unhealthy...but he smoke "Arjeela, Hookah" and he vapes from time to time)

Feb 6--9, 2020: Rings, Monoids and Module Theory, Feb 6--9, 2020, organized by Ayman Badawi (here at the AUS), for the full program, Click Here

Jan. 31, 2020: Sheikh Dr. Sultan attends 13th AUS Annual Reunion Dinner and outlines the achievements of the AUS.

January 20-22, 2020: KEYNOTE SPEAKER, NTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANALYSIS, ALGEBRA, COMBINATORICS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA, INDIA

December 16-Jan2, 2019(2020): Nadeem Visit, La Mer Dubai, Grill Barbecue with his friends in our house.

December 13, 2019 : Judging Panellist in the Mathematics Category of The Global Undergraduate Awards 2019 Academic Programme

November 27, 2019 : AUS celebrates 48th UAE National Day (Thanks Dr. Sultan Alqasimi for keeping "education" your first priority).

November 17, 2019: Simply "Addams Family: The Musical", is just awesome, one of the best performance I have seen in the last two years. Congratulation to all people involved.

November 17, 2019 (like father like son PART II :))) Nadeem since he was 8 years old, his dream was to own a super market and sell things for free . He was the younget to attend Opportunity Collaboration (leaders dedicated to building solutions to poverty and injustice), Cancún, Mexico October 11-16, 2020. He was proud that he met Sakena Yacoobi well-known (International Recognicion) for her work for the right of children, women and education. For more Click here

October 13, 2019: Architecture students, Dhruva Lakshmninarayan, Urva Parmar and Sahil Rattha, from the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) at American University of Sharjah (AUS), have received international recognition from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators’ Architecture for architectural illustrations they submitted in this year’s Perspective 34 competition.

November 13, 2019: A visit to Charminar Mosque, and Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, India

November 11-13, 2019: Invited speaker to the International Conference on Mathematical Sciences-2019 (Special sessions on: Algebra and related Topics) ,, India

September 29, 2019: Palestinian businessman and philanthropist Fathi J. Afana, CEO of Fast Building Contracting Company, has endowed an AED1 million scholarship fund for American University of Sharjah (AUS) students.

September 17, 2019: I am placed in the top 1% of reviewers in Mathematics on Publons reviewer database (second year in arrow)

September 17, 2019: I am placed in the top 1% of reviewers in Cross-Field on Publons reviewer database.

September 12, 2019: My student Taha Ameen Ur Rahman (his senior undergraduate project was completed under my supervision ) spends summer as research intern at Finnish university

September 11, 2019: Congratulation to AUS-Students, Ahmed Al Ali and Farid Esmaeil, Global award-winning alumni, X-Architects: “AUS is part of us”

September 3, 2019: Congratulation to Dr. Nemer, AUS alum appointed to prestigious post-doctoral post at Princeton University

August 27-30, 2019: Invited speaker to the 8th International Eurasian Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan. It was a chance (and pleasure) to meet the Algebraist Toma Albu

August 30, 2019: Conference Excursion, Qobustan (Carving Rocks), Atashgah Temple, and Yanardag (Fire Mountain), Baku, Azerbaijan

August 29, 2019: My visit to the mountains of Azerbaijan (Quba).

August 25-26, 2019 : My visit to the city of Baku and the old city, Azerbaijan

July 25, 2019: Husni Al Bayari, a graduate of the American University of Sharjah (AUS) Class of 2004, and CEO of D&B Properties pledges AED 100,000 annually towards scholarship (Observe that the New Chancellor seems not tied to ties, personally I think this is a positive sign....maybe with days he will use slippers and T-shirt... heyyy we all need to relax ...too hot here ......He will remain the chancellor but more relaxed chancellor!! :) )

July 18, 2019: I was honored to be a keynote speaker to the second Algebra Workshop at the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

July 18, 2019: AUS graduates first cohort of biomedical engineering graduate program

July 8, 2019: Kan Yama Kan (Once upon A Time In Palestine), a project by Dr. Suheil Dahdal, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication, has been selected as one of only eight installations currently on show as part of the “Mutation Hybridation” exhibition at the Memory of the Future Museum in Paris, France.

July 3-6, 2019: Invited speaker to an International Conference on Mathematics, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey (It was also a chance to meet Ismail Kucuk, a former AUS-MATH Faculty)

June 27-29, 2019: Invited Speaker to the International Conference on Number Theory and Graph Theory honoring Prof. Adiga renowned Mathematician (Known for his work on Ramanjan's notebook ...)

June 20, 2019: Noora Alsaeed, former AUS student with bachelor degree in Math. and minor in Physics is the co-author of this article (Bruce M Jakosky, M Slipski, M Benna, P Mahaffy, M Elrod, Roger Yelle, S Stone, N Alsaeed, ’Mars’ atmospheric history derived from upper-atmosphere measurements of 38Ar/36Ar) Science, an academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes articles that rank among the most cited in the world. The student was discovered by Prof. Guessoum ( Professor of Physics, google scholar, known for his work on Islam and Physics) . For more read here

June 12-15, 2019: Plenary Speaker to the 6th International Conference on Pure and Applied Math, Istanbul, Turkey.

June 12-15, 2019: Social activities during the 6th International Conference on Pure and Applied Math, Istanbul, Turkey.

June 14, 2019: A visit to the beautiful NUN school, Istanbul, Turkey.

May 24, 2019: Performed 55 reviews for Journals between May 2018 and May 2019.

May 14, 2019: Seminar by our former student Hashem Isabi

May 13, 2019: Master's thesis defense presentation of Yasmeen Ahmed El-Ashi

May 12, 2019: Presentation of my student Reem Mahmoud (Undergraduate Research Project)

May 7, 2019: Book by Springer, Advances in Commutative Algebra, Dedicated to David F. Anderson

May 4, 2019 : 3rd Khuri-Louhichi workshop on expository lectures in Mathematics

April 24-27, 2019: Invited Speaker 3rd International Congress/ Algebra, Number Theory and Applications, Oujda, Morocco

April 12, 2019: Second Birzeit University Alumni Reunion in Dubai (Special guests: Mustafa Jarrar the winner of Mohammed Bin Rashid’s Award for the Arabic Language 2019 for the development of an innovative Lexicographic Search Engine -the first of its kind worldwide. Mohammad Assaf and the Hilarious Comedian Alaa AbuDiab)

March 22-24, 2019: Invited speaker, Factorization and arithmetic properties of integral domains and monoids, AMS Joint Central and Western Sectional Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.

March 25, 2019: (brief) Visit to the Islands of Honolulu, Hawaii USA

March 19, 2019: For the first time, mathematics' most prestigious prize has been awarded to a woman, Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas, Austin)

March 16, 2019: Contributed 20 minutes talk in UAE MATH DAY CONFERENCE, American University of Sharjah, UAE

March 14, 2019: Universal Math day and one year since the departure of the great thinker of our time Stephen Hawking , AUS celebrated the"Math Day" by organizing MathFest2019 (many thanks to the organizing committee: Youssef Belhamadia, Abdul Salam Jarrah, Saadia Khouyibaba, Issam Louhichi, Mujo Mesanovic )

March 11, 2019: (Like father, like son), My Son launched his own webpage :))))))) (as an RA at Lynn Univ)

Feb 14, 2019: I celebrated my Birthday by giving a general talk on Magic Numbers (mainly for students regardless of their major). In fact, for most of my talk, I explored the properties of the ring (Z_9, +, .) in a simplified language:))))))))))) )(without talking about rings, groups.)

Feb 6, 2019: The first edition of the brand new AUS newsletter has now been published (STIR), an acronym for Science, Technology, Innovation and Research (Interesting and smart abbreviation!!! that match the english word "stir"(i.e., putting different things in a bot and you stir!) with a special recognition of Professor Ghaleb Hussaini : the Cancer researcher

January 25, 2019: The Palestinian Club at the AUS brought the Palestinian Hannouneh Folkloric Troupe: Clip 1Clip2Clip3. A surprise appearance of the Tunisian Lotfi Boshnaq

January 20, 2019: The following article is published on line( Georgian Math. Journal): On weakly 2-absorbing δ-primary ideals of commutative rings, 2018

January 11, 2019: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, a renowned mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004, which he shared with Isadore M. Singer, has died at the age of 89. He did a great deal of significant work, including creating topological K-theory with Friedrich Hirzebruch and formulating the Atiyah-Singer index theorem with Singer. Because of some health problems, he was not able to attend the 6th Palestine Conference on Math&Physics (Khadori Univ., WestBank, Palestine), however he communicated his talk via Skype August 5, 2018

January 4-6, 2019: Invited speaker to an International Conference on Graph Theory and Its Applications, Amrita University, Coimbatore, India .

December 27-28, 2018: Keynote speaker to an International Conference on Math., and Touring the BEAUTIFUL Langkawi Island, Malasyia.

December 20, 2018: Touring Islands near Saigon, Vietnam

December 18-20, 2018: 20-minutes talk at an International Conference on Math. (Special Session on Rings) , Saigon, Vietnam

December 12, 2018: Our Talented Student Taha Ameen presented his undergraduate research project.

November 29, 2018: UAE Pioneers Award honors AUS as the Prestigious Center for Research and Science in the UAE

November 23-25, 2018: Invited Speaker to an International Conference on Algebra, ICACM-2018, November 23-25, 2018, the Beautiful Shimla, India

November 15, 2018: (Strange news):Japan’s minister of cybersecurity has never used computer

October 31, 2018: Palestine J. Math. Vol 8(1), 2019 (published ahead of time)

October 8, 2018: 100AED-Award, Problem 4: Doing Mathematics by Staring(Solved; Winner I: Liana HajeirWinner II : Seyed Foad Zandavi; Similar solution, ( arrived LATE): Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali and Abdulla Maseeh

(September 12, 2018): I have been named a top reviewer in Publons' global Peer Review Awards And This link on Publons

July 27-August 27, 2018: Many social activities, No research and I gained 2 KG:

>>>>>>>>>>>(1)July 27-July 31: Istanbul, Turkey; (2) July 31-August 3, 2018: 20-minute talk at Math. Conference, Maltepe Univ. Istanbul Turkey; (3) August 5-8: Two talks at the 6th Palestinian Conference on Math. and Physics, Khadoori, Tulkarim, West Bank Palestine (Set one, Set 2Set 3Set 4Set 5); (4) August 8-10: Visiting the beautiful old city of Nablus(Alyasmeen Hotel) Nablus, Palestine; (5) August 10-14: Visiting my brother and his family , Rawabi, and Birzeit Univ., Ramallah, Palestine; (6) August 16: Engagement party of my Niece , Amman , Jordan; (7)Auguast 24: Pre-wedding party and the wedding party of my nephew, Amman , Jordan; (8)August 25: Family dinner after the wedding Amman, Jordan

 

July-August 2018: Co-author of three publications in: (1)Journal of Algebra and its Applications (2)Algebra Colloquium; (3)Journal of Korean Mathematical Society.

July 18, 2018: Today is the birthday of the remarkable man Nelson Mandela(July 18, 1918-December 5, 2013)

July 2, 2018: We are proud of Suheyla Takesh, an outstanding alumni of American University of Sharjah (AUS), was recently awarded the “Master of Science in Architecture Studies Prize for Thesis” for work completed as part of the Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

June 22, 2018: Conference Social Activity, visiting Ohrid, Macedonia

June 21, 2018: Conference social activity, visiting the BEAUTIFUL city Prizren, Kosovo

June 21, 2018: Conference social activity, visiting , Pristina Kosovo

June 20, 2018: Visiting Skopje, Macedonia, June 20, 2018

June 20, 2018: Visiting the house of mama teresa, where she was born, Skopje, Macedonia

June 18-22, 2018: Keynote Speaker to the 5th International Congress on Fundamental and Applied Sciences 2018 (ICFAS2018), at International Balkan University, Skopje, Maccedonia

May 6, 2018: Congratulation to my favorite and coolest Physicist Ali Alnaser (Ali Bin-Naser :))) , Head of the Physics Department, AUS launches a new Bachelor of Science in Physics, meeting local and global demand for highly skilled scientists. Note that Ali Alnaser received a very prestigious alumni Achievement Award presented at Western Michigan University, USA. For more about Ali Alnaser see Google Scholar

April 30, 2018: Invited speaker to the Seventh CARG (Commutative Algebra Research Group) Workshop at King Fahd University of Petroleum &Minerals, Saudi Arabia

April 14, 2014: Contributed 20-minutes talk at the UAE-Math Day , American University of Ras Alkhaima (AURAK)

March 19, 2018: CAS Student Annual Event

March 14, 2018: (Math-Pi-Day) Stephen Hawking, physicist and inspiration to millions, dies aged 76 . Stephen Hawking (the Human) supports first physics school in Palestine.

Feb 14, 2018: I celebrated my Birthday by giving a talk (mainly to students) on "Up-Down game".One of our brilient students at the AUS " Taha Ameen ur Rahman" developed a computer program of such game.

Feb 4, 2018: Birzeit University Alumni Get Together, February 4, 2018, Dubai, UAE

Feb 3, 2018: Birzeit Univ(I worked there from 97-2003), Conferring Doctorate Honoria Degree on Dr. Raid Al Sadik (Trustee of Birzeit Univ, Palestine, and a Trustee of the AUS),

February 3, 2018: Photographer of the Workshop on PDEs

Jan 20, 2018: Problem 3 is solved by M.Said Alghabra

Jan 2-13, 2018: Invited speakers to Conferences, Seminars in India

>>>> 1. Jan 2: Seminar at Amrita University, Coimbatore 

>>>> 2. Jan 4-7: International Conference on Discrete Math, Salem, Tamil Nadu.

>>>> 3. Jan 6: Seminar at Vivekanandha College for Women.

>>>> 4. Jan 8-10: International Conference on Algebra and Discrete Math, Madurai Univ.

>>>> 5. Jan 11: Seminar at Hajee Karutha Rowther Howdia College

>>>> 6. Jan 12-13: Visiting the beautiful city Thekkady, Kerela.

December 21, 2017: AUS on way to becoming leading research university in the region, says Sultan

December 13, 2017: I was born on Feb. 14, 1963. My wife sent me this link and I am stunned( No Comments)

November 28, 2017: Yousuf Abo Rahma (Distinguished undergraduate Student at AUS) delivered a lecture at 4pm in C103

November 18, 2017: AUS-CAS participated in Relay for Life UAE (Friends of cancer patients)

November 13, 2017: Invited speaker to Algebra, Geometry and more…Workshop, Muscat, Oman

October 20, 2017: 100AED AWARD Problem III

October 17, 2017: PJM VOL 7(1) is published

Oct 14, 2017: Photographer of the Analysis workshop (AUS)

October 8, 2017: Problem II solved by Yousef Abo Rahma

October 4, 2017: American Univ. of Sharjah is number one in the world in terms of diversity

October 2, 2017: 100 AED Award(Problem II)

Sept. 7-9, 2017: Keynote Speaker, Mata Sundri College for Women (University of Delhi)

Sept. 8, 2017: Closing Ceremony, Mata Sundri College for Women (University of Delhi)

Sept. 3, 2017: (Students only) 100 AED Award, SOLVED Click Here

August 6-8, 2017: A visit to Bucharest, Romania

August 5, 2017: A visit to Cluj_Napoca, Romania

August 3, 2017: A visit to Turda Salt Mine , Romania

August 1-4, 2017 (I missed the first day): Alba iulia, Romania, Twenty minute talk at Recent Trends in Pure and Applied Mathematics Conference

July 12-15: Keynote speaker to The 30th International Conference of The Jangjeon Mathematical Society (ICJMS-2017) at Houari Boumedienne University, Algiers, Algeria

July 14: A visit to TIPASA, Algeria

July 13: A visit to Algiers, Algeria

July 15, 2017: Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win mathematics' Fields medal, dies at 40

June 5-10, 2017: Invited speaker to The Third Pohang International Conference on Commutative Rings, Gyeongju, South Korea

June 5-10, 2017: Touring Gyeongju, South Korea

June 2-3, 2017: Visiting Seoul, Meeting Marco Fonntana and Lorenzo Guerrieri

May 30, 2017: Recently, AUS-Researchers confirm that all kind of "smoking" harm our health.

In fact, many studies revealed that cigerette smoke contains over 4000 different compunds. (see the link)

May 27, 2017: In a time where Islam is hijacked across the globe to suit political and
idealogical aims,I would like to extend my best wishes for all truthful Muslim across the glope 
on the occasion of the fasting month of Ramadan.

April 26, 2017: Keynote speaker, International Conference on Algebra, Errachidia, Morocco

April 24-25, 2017: Touring Errachidia, Morocco

April 23, 2017: Palestine J. Math, (PJM ) published Vol 6(2)

April 7, 2017:Palestine J. Math, (PJM ) published a special issue in Applied Math.

March 11, 2017: 15th UAE-Math Day, Univ. of Sharja (I gave a talk)

March 4, 2017: Second AUS Regional Students’ Conference on Mathematics

Feb 26-28, 2017: Invited speaker to the International Conference of Math, Sanya, China

Feb 25-March 1, 2017: Tour in Sanya, China

Feb 8-10, 2017: Keynote speaker to the International Seminar on Algebra, St. Berchmans Colleg.Kerala, India

Feb 11, 2017: Boat Trip. Feb 11, 2017. Kerala India

Feb 10, 2017: A visit to Krishnapuram Palace and Ambalapuzha Temple, Feb 10, 2017. Kerala, India

December 24, 2016: Visiting Mysore Univ., Mysore Palace and two of the oldest temples in India

December 23, 2016: Plenary Speaker at ICMM16, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, India

December 22, 2016: Visiting Acharya Univ and delivering a talk at Bangalore Univ to Master Degree Students, India,

Nov. 12-15, 2016: Aligarh Muslim Univ, India: Invited speaker to the Internal Conf. on Algebra (ICAA16), India

Nov. 9-11, 2016: Goa, India: Invited speaker to the Math. session at Carmel College for Women, India

Nov 3, 2016: My testemony on the occasion of UAE flag day.

Nov 3, 2016: I am a proud DAD (My son Nadeen at Lynn Univ, Florida, Show respect to the UNITED ARAB Emirates's Flag, the country that gives us too much, and show respect to his dad home land Flag Palestine.

Oct 26-29, 2016: I gave 50 minutes talk in the Commutative Algebra Workshop (I only attended the last 3 days), Nepal

August 9-11, 2016: Invited speaker to the 4th Seminar of Algebra, Ardabil, Iran

August 10, 2016: A trip to the mountains near Azerbaijan, 50km from Ardabil, Iran

August 11, 2016: Overnight at Astara, near Azerbaijian, 75km from Ardabil, Iran

August 3, 2016: Visiting my nephews,neices, brothers, uncles, Amman, Jordan

July 30-August 2, 2016: The 5th Palestinian Conference on Math&Physics, AAU, Jenin, WestBank, Palestine

July 29: Visiting my brother (President of Birzeit Univ), neices and their husbands and their kids, Ramallah, Palestine

July 16-20, 2016 : Family visit to Rome, Italy

July 17, 2016: Rome- Colosseum

July 18, 2016: Vatican Visit, Rome, Italy

July 19, 2016: Rome-Lake and Restaurent

July 19, 2016: Tivoli, near Rome, Italy

July 12-16, 2016: Family visit to Venice, Italy

July 13, 2016: Venice, Italy, Meeting Brother, his wife and student

July 14, 2016: Venice, Murano and Burano Islands

July 9-11, 2016: A visit to the beautiful city Salzburg, Austria

July 3-8, 2016: Graz, Austria, Rings and Polynomials Conference

July 5, 2016: Graz, Austria, Conference Reception

June 16, 2016: Overnight in Padova, Italy

June 12-16, 2016: Images of the beautiful Bressanone Brixen, Italy

June 12-15, 2016: Commutative Algebra Conference Bressanon,e Brixen, Italy.

June 10-12, 2016: A visit to Verona, Italy

June 3, 2016:My Son Nadeem, Family Dinner and students prom (unseen) at Jumeirah Mina A'Salam- Madinat
Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE

May 27, 2016: My Son Nadeem, High School Graduation Ceremony (Choueifat School, Sharjah, UAE)

April 25, 2016: 5th CARG-Workshop (Commutative Algebra Workshop), King Fahd University of Petroleum and&Minerals, Saudi Arabia

April 20, 2016: Vol.5(2), 2016 of the Palestine J. Math (PJM) is published.

April 1-4, 2016: Spring-break with family at Fairmont hotel and resort, Ajman, UAE

March 24-25, 2016:AUS-Global Day

March 12, 2016: The 14th UAE-Math day Conference, NEW YORK UNIV, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Feb 27, 2016: Department of Math (AUS) getting-together with students, Al-Mamzar, Dubai

Feb 21-24, 2016: A friend from graduate school (Prof. Theodoros Katsaounis, KAUST Univ), Visits AUS and gives a talk.

Feb. 1-5, 2016 : "New Pathways between Group Theory and Model Theory – A conference in memory of Rüdiger Göbel”, Wolfsburg Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Jan 26-Feb 1, 2016: Visiting Professor Robert Wiesbauer, Univ of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf-city , Zons, and Cologne, Germany

January 21-23, 2016: External Examiner for a PH.D Student (Litegebe Wondie), Addis Ababa Univ, Ethiopia

Januarary 21-23, External Examiner for a PH.D Student (Litegebe Wondie)

Nov 18-20:, 2015: 24th International Conference - FIM 2015 Barcelona Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), Barcelona, Spain

Nov 18-21, 2015: Touring Bercelona

August 7-11, 2015: Family Visit to Maldives

August 11-17, 2015 : Family Visit to Sri Lanka (Paradise Island, indeed), Part 1

August 11-17, 2015: Family Visit to Sri Lanka Part II,

August 11-17, 2015 : Family Visit to Sri Lanka Part III

August 11-17, 2015 : Family Visit to Sri Lanka Part IV

August 11-17, 2015 : Family Visit to Sri Lanka Part V(Short videos)

July 5-12, 2015, Manipal Univ., India : Invited speaker to the 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEARRINGS, NEARFIELDS AND RELATED TOPICS

June 30-July 4, 2015.: Visit to Bangalore India

July 10-13, 2015 : Visit to Mumbai, India

April 24, 2015 : Excellence in Research Award for the year 2014-2015.

May 15-19, 2015, Antalya, Turkey : I chaired an Algebra session and I presented a talk in the 28th International Conference of The Jangjeon Mathematical Society 

May 15-19, 2015 : Trip of the 28th International Conference of The Jangjeon Mathematical Society  Antalya, Turkey.

April 27, 2015 : Invited speaker for the Commutative Algebra Workshop at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

April, 19-26, 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal : Invited speaker, two lectures, First International Workshop on Algebra organized by Roger and Sylvia Wiegand

April, 19-26, 2015 : Kathmandu, Nepal, General Pictures (Just 2 days before the big earthquakes on April 25, 2015)

April 2-5, 2015 : ICMS-AUS 2015 ( 2nd AUS Math conference ), General Picture

April 2-5, 2015 : Commutative Algebra special session during our ICMS-AUS 2015 ( 2nd AUS Math conference )

March 21, 2015 : UAE Math Day, (Sorbonne Univ, Abudhabi) 

Feb 3-6, 2015 : Visiting Hong Kong, China

Feb 1-2, 2015 : Visiting beijing, China (The lost city and Great wall of China)

Jan 29-31, 2015 : Keynote speaker for the 1st Combinatorics and Graph Theory Conference , Shanghai, China

Oct 4-10, 2014 : Travel Grant from Granada Univ. (Spain), visiting Professors Pascal Jara and Pedro Garcia , I delivered two talks and visited ALHAMRA

Oct 8, 2014 : Visiting Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Oct 10-11, 2014 : Visiting Madrid, Spain

Sept. 22-26, 2014 : 25-minutes talk at Arithmetic and Ideal Theory of Rings and Semigroups Conference, Glaz, Austria

August 11-13, 2014 : Invited Speaker to the 4th Palestinian Conference on Math&Phys, Al-Quds University, Palestine

August 5-8, 2014 : 30 minutes talk at the International Conference on Algebra & Number Theory, Samsun, Turkey

June 18-21, 2014 : Plenary speaker to the International Workshop on Algebra & Applications, Fes, Morocco

June 18-21, 2014 : More pictures of the International Workshop on Algebra & Applications, Fes, Morocco

June 22-24, 2014: Visiting Marrakech, Morocco

June 24-25, 2014: Visiting Rabat, Morocco

June 15-18, 2014 : 30 Minutes talk at Algebraic Structures and Their Applications, SPINETO (SIENA), ITALY

June 15-18, 2014 : More pictures: Algebraic Structures and Their Applications, SPINETO (SIENA), ITALY

June 2-13, 2014 : 25 minutes Talk, Cimpa School on Algebra, Galatasaray Univ, Istanbul, Turkey

April 22-24, 2014 : Keynote speaker to the International Arab Conference on Mathematics and Computations at Zarqa University, Jordan

April 27, 2014: Amman, Jordan, My oldest Brother, his sons and family.

April 19, 2014 : Keynote Speaker of the 12th UAE MATH DAY at American Univ. in Dubai

March 21-23, 2014 : Invited speaker at the American Math Society Special Session on Commutative Rings, Knoxville, TN, USA

Jan. 22-24, 2014 : Invited speaker to the Algebra Workshop, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli-Tamil Nadu, India

Jan 22 2014 : Tirunelveli-Falls, Tamil Nadu India (with ASIR)

Jan 24, 2014 : Kanya Kumari, India

Jan 25-27, 2014 : Kerala, India

Jan 18-21, 2014 : South Goa, India

Dec 28-30, 2013. : 3rd International Conference on Math & Information Science, LUXOR, Egypt,

Dec 29, 2013 : Balloon Ride, Luxor, Egypt .

Dec 29, 2013 : Valley of the Kings and Queen Hatshepsut Temple, Luxor, Egypt

Dec 27, 2013 : Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt .

November 26, 2013: Invited Speaker United Arab Emirates University Seminars (with Fathi Allan)

March 22, 2013: AUS GLOBAL DAY

December 4, 2013 : Marcel Khalife's Concert.

1997-1998 : Nelson Mandela visited my Universty AUS .

NOV 10-20, 2013 : University of Tennessee KNOXVILLE (Visiting Prof. David F. Anderson)

August 11-15, 2013 : International Conference on Algebra Honoring Patrick Smith and John Clark, Balikesir, Turkey

August 11-15, 2013 : More pictures and events (ICA honoring Patrick Smith and John Clark)Balikesir, Turkey

July 28, 2013 : Raneem doing Sky Trail, Mirdif Mall, Dubai

July 9-13, 2013 : Bloemfontein South Africe, International Conference on Rings, Near Rings, and Radical

May30-June 1, 2013 : First International Western Balkans Conference On Math. (Elbasan + Tirana) Albania

May 22, 2013 : Math Dept Get Together at Anise Restaurant at Intercontenental Festival City, Dubai,

April 22, 2013 : I received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in the College of Arts & Science for the year 2012-2013

April 28, 2013 : UAE Math Day Al-Ain

March 12, 2013 : Marcel Khalife remembering Mahmoud Darwish at the AUS

March 12, 2013 : More pictures, Marcel Khalife remembering Mahmoud Darwish at the AUS

Feb 1, 2013 : A Visit to Sidi-Bou-Said with Salma Elaoud, Tunis.

Feb 1, 2013 : The famous Bardo Museum, Tunis.

Jan 31, 2013 : Invited Speaker to the Algebra and Topology Workshop, Science City, Tunis

Jan 30 , 2013: Dinner with Sadik at the famous Dar-El Jeld, Tunis.

Jan 29, 2013 : Visit to Soussi (Qartawi) and Monstir (Abou-Raqiba Center) , Tunis

Jan 29, 2013: Tunis Famous Road Abu-Raqiba and Bab-El Bahr

Jan 28, 2013 : With Sadik, tour in Tunis (Lake, Old City Sadiqiya, Qasba, and Zaytuna Mosque)

Jan 27, 2013 : With Sadik, the traditional Tunisian lablali-dish .

Dec 16- 22, 2012 : Invited speaker to the Commutative Rings & Integer-valued functions Conference, Graz, Austria

Dec 18-22, 2012: With Wife (Mayseen) in Graz, Austria

Dec 18-22, 2012: With Wife (Mayseen) in Viena, Austria

Dec 8, 2012 : Keynote speaker to the Algebra Workshop Sultan Qaboos Univ, Muscat, Oman

November 30, 2012: Family visit to Kalba with brother and nephew and their families

October 27, 2012: The wedding of my nephew Bilal, Amman, Jordan

October 28, 2012: Family Dinner, one day after the wedding of my nephew Bilal Amman, Jordan

August 30-Sept 1, 2012 : Keynote speaker to the Second Conference on Algebra, Ardabil, Iran.

August 30-Sept 1, 2012 : More Pictures On Algebra Conference , Ardabil, Iran .

Sept 1, 2012 : Tour in Ardabil, Iran

Sept.2, 2012 : Tour in Karndovan and Tabriz, Iran

August 23-26, 2012 : Speaker for Bursa,Turkey Math Conference

August 24-26, 2012 : Family tour in Bursa, Turkey

August 18-23, 2012 : Family tour in Istanbul, Turkey.

July 16-18, 2012 : Speaker to the Math and Physics Conference, Hebron and Bethlehem, Palestine

July 15-17, 2012: Bethlehem , WestBank, Palestine

July 13, 2012 : My niece Hala's Wedding

July 1, 2012 : AUS mourns the sudden death of our beloved Associate Dean of CAS DR. Ibrahim Sadek

June 10-12, 2012 : Tour in Venice, Italy

June 4-8, 2012 : Tour in Bressanone/Brixen , Italy

June 4-8, 2012 : Invited Speaker to the "Commutative Rings and their Modules, 2012", Bressanone/Brixen, Italy 

June 6, 2012 : Dinner party on the occasion of Marco Fontana 65th Birthday, Bressanone/Brixen, Italy

APRIL 29, 2012 : Invited Speaker : Algebra Workshop at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

April 14, 2012: UAE Math Day at the AUS ( Opening Session, Random Pics, and Dinner at Al-Halab Dubai Mail)

APRIL 14, 2012 : UAE MATH DAY AT THE AMERICAN UNIV OF SHARJAH, (Opening Session, Algebra Session, and Dinner at Al-Halab Dubai Mall)

April 14, 2012 : UAE MATH DAY DINNER AT AL- HALAB, Dubai Mall

April 2, 2012 : My Family (Wife and Children), Nephew (Wife and Children), Cousin (Wife and Children), ICE LAND, RAS ALKHAIMA, UAE ANOTHER OPTION HERE

MARCH 11-14, 2012 : Marco Fontana and I organized a special session on Commutative Algebra amd Modules (ICM 2012, Al-Ain, UAE ).

Feb 5-9 2012 : Invited speaker (40 minutes) to the CONFERENCE (CCSCM 2012), with Suheel Khoury , Malaka, Malaysia

Jan 21-26, 2012 : Conference on Radicals, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Nov 28-Dec 2, 2011 : Port Elizabeth, Joint Congress of the South African and American Mathematical Societies

Nov 28-Dec 2, 2011 : Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Wild Animals and Tour in the City

Nov 25-28, 2011 : South Africa, Cape Town

November 9, 2011: Family visit to Khorfakkan and Al Meshwar Restaurant with my brother and his family

Sept 10-14, 2011 : Egypt, Sohag Conference

August 29-Sept. 1, 2011: Family visit to Salalah, Oman

July20-23, 2011 : Konya, Turkey Math Conference

March 17-18, 2011 : Workshop on Factorization and graphs, Pre AMS Meeting, Iowa City, USA

March 18-20, 2011 : Invited Speaker to the AMS Meeting, Commutative Rings Special Session, Iowa City, USA

March 18 , 2011 : Dan Anderson Party, Iowa City

Nov 29-Dec 3, 2010 : CIRIM (International Center Research in Mathematics), Luminy, Marseille, France, Conference

Nov 29- Dec3 , 2010 : More pics, CIRIM II, Luminy, Marseille, France

Nov 29-Dec 3, 2010 : Tour in Marseille, France

Nov 24-28, 2010 : Conference in Bolu, Turkey

Nov 24-28, 2010 : Tour in Bolu, Safran-Bolu, and Istanbul Turkey

Oct 7-10, 2010 : YogyaKarta, Inodenisia: ICA10, International Conference on Algebra celebrating the 70th birthday of Prof. Schum Ping

Oct 7-10, 2010 : Tour in YogyaKarta, Indonisia 

August 2- 4, 2010 : Math&Physics Conference, Najah Univ , Nablus, West Bank, Palestine

July 25-30, 2010 : Algebra Conference Brasilia (Brazil)

Juy22-30, 2010 : Tour in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Brasilia

May 19-21, 2010 : Commutative Algebra Conference Rome, Italy

May 19-22 2010 : Tour in Rome Italy

October 2009 : Math Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malysia

March 18-21, 2010 : AUS-ICMS10, ALGEBRA SPECIAL SESSIONS PICS + SOME MORE

March 18-21, 2010 : AUS-ICMS10 GENERAL CONFERENCE PICTURES

June 15- 21, 2009 : Commutative Algebra Conference, . In Honour of 60th birthday of David F. Anderson, GyouengJu, South Korea

March 8, 2009 : Math major students and math faculty got together for snack food, AUS.

100 DHS MATH PROBLEM

Muhammad Ali ( Electrical Engineering, Univ of Sharjah), Solved the 100 DHS MATH PROBLEM

Jan 5-8, 2009 : Invited Speaker at the Special Session on Commutative Algebra, AMS-Annual Meeting, Washignton DC, USA

Jan 4-Jan 12, 2009 : The Mall, Washington DC

Dec 18-- 20, 2008 : Organizer of the Commutative Algebra Conference India .

Dec 20, 2008 : Pictures for Delhi and Taj Mahal, India

Dec 18-Dec 21, 2008 : More Pictures in Delhi India

Dec 14, 2008 : Invited speaker at the Commutative Algebra Workshp, Muscat Oman

June 23- 28, 2008 : Invited Speaker at Fes-Ifran Commutative Algebra Conference

June 23- 28, 2008 : Pctures of the FES-Conference + IFRAN

March 5-7, 2008 : Invited speaker at BangKok Math. Conference .

March 5-7, 2008 : Pictures of BangKok and Conference I

March 5-7, 2008 : Pictures of BangKok and Conference II

Dec. 27-30, 2007 : Egypt Math Conference

Nov. 10-12, 2007 : Invited speaker to the Institute for studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics(IPM) Tehran, Iran.

June 8-15, 2007: Invited speaker to the AMS special session on Commutative Rings, Univ. of Connicticut USA

April 2-6, 2007: MATH CONFERENCE, Malysia, with Suhail and Zayid