PERSONAL INFORMATION:

EMPLOYMENTS:

EDUCATIONS:

ACTIVITIES:

• Member of the Local Organizer Committee of the ”Second School in Elementary Astronomy and Astrophysics”, July 1997, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran.

• Member of observational team to observe the Solar Eclipse of Aug 11, 1999, on behalf of IASBS, at Isfahan, Iran, in collaboration with a team of astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore.

• Member of research and executive team of the site selection for Iranian National Observatory, January 2000 - January 2002.

• Member of organizer committee of the “5th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of Iran”, 8-9 February 2001, Zanjan, Iran.

• Member of scientific and local organizer committee of the workshop on "Instrumentation and Site Selection of Iranian National Observatory", 7-13 July 2001, Zanjan, Iran.

• Member of organizer committee of the “Gravitational Waves Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW11)”, 18-21 December 2006, Potsdam, Germany.

• Member of American Physical Society (APS).

• Member of German Physical Society (DPG).

• Member of LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration (LSC).

• Member of GEO (German-English gravitational wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration.

HONORS:

• I have an Advanced degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Astronomical Society of Iran.

• I had joined Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) as a Junior Research Fellow during January 2002 till January 2003. I had passed the JEST (Joint Entrance Screening Test) to this admission with the result of being in top 6% of candidates.

• I have been granted to join Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Potsdam, Germany as a PhD student in January 2003.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Very good background in computers, computational works, analysis, softwares and programming.

• Currently working with both Windows and Linux Operating Systems, and have very good experiences with MAC, OS/2 and DOS Operating Systems.

• Working with C, C++, Java and C# as main computer programming languages, plus Matlab, Octave and Python as the language to perform daily routine tasks. Previously also used Fortran and Basic language. Used Matlab and IDL (in the ENVI environment) to do Image Processing and IRAF for astronomical spectroscopy analysis.

• Worked with some very popular softwares under Windows and Linux Operating Systems, like Maple, Origin, Mathematica, IDL, ENVI, Emacs, Doxygen, OpenOffice, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, Latex, GIMP, Pinnacle Studio, Partition Magic, Nero, ACDSee, WinEdit, CVS, SVN, VTK, PovRay, CorelDraw, AutoCAD, FoxPro etc.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Farsi (Persian): Mother Tongue,

• English: Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking: Fluent,

• German: Reading, Writing, Listening and Talking: Intermediate.

PUBLICATIONS:

8. Slow dynamics and precursors of the glass transition in granular fluids, Iraj Gholami, Andrea Fiege and Annette Zippelius, (submitted to Phys. Rev. E), (preprint: arXiv: 1106.3239 [cond-mat]).

7. The Evaluation of Multi-Temporal ENVISAT-ASAR for Temporal and Spatial Discrimination of Rice Fields, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, Iraj Gholami, Fardin Mirzapour, (Winter 2010 Issue, Journal of Natural Geographical Science, Tehran University.)

6. Maximum Spectral and Spatial Information Contents Indicator (MSICI): an Unsupervised Feature Selection in Hyperspectral Images, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, Iraj Gholami, Fardin Mirzapour, and Seyed Kazem Alavipanah (submitted to Physical Sensor Journal).

5. A decision between Bayesian and Frequentist upper limit in analyzing continuous Gravitational Waves, Iraj Gholami, (to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D).

4. Generalization of F-Statistic and LALDemod, Iraj Gholami, LIGO technical documents, T080141-00-Z (2008). http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/T/T080141-00.pdf

3. PhD thesis; Data Analysis of Continuous Gravitational Waves, Iraj Gholami, Potsdam University, Germany (2008), http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1880/.

2. Improved Stack-Slide Searches for Gravitational-Wave Pulsars, Curt Cutler, Iraj Gholami, and Badri Krishnan, Phys. Rev. D72, 042004 (2005) (preprint: gr-qc/0505082).

1. Variation in the Network Flux as derived from the Calcium K-line Profiles as Function of Latitude and Solar Cycle Phase, Jagdev Singh, Iraj Gholami, S. Muneer, Advances in Space Research, 34, 265 (2004).

Publications related to the LSC works

41. First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), (preprint: arXiv: 1006.2535 [gr-qc]).

40. Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), (preprint: arXiv: 1003.2481 [gr-qc]).

39. Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 173001 (2010), (preprint: arXiv: 1003.2480 [astro-ph.HE]).

38. All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D81, 102001 (2010), (preprint: arXiv: 1002.1036 [gr-qc]).

37. Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Astrophys. J., 715, 1453 (2010), (preprint: arXiv: 1001.0165 [astro-ph.HE]).

36. Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with S5 LIGO data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Astrophys. J., 713, 671 (2010), (preprint: arXiv: 0909.3583 [astro-ph.HE]).

35. Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO Science Run 5 and Virgo Science Run 1, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Astrophys. J., 715, 1438 (2010), (preprint: arXiv: 0908.3824 [astro-ph.HE]).

34. An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Nature, 460, 08278 (2009).

33. Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in 186 Days of LIGO's fifth Science Run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D80, 047101 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0905.3710 [gr-qc]).

32. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D80, 102001 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0905.0020 [gr-qc]).

31. Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of LIGO's Fifth Science Run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D80, 102002 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0904.4910 [gr-qc]).

30. Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 storm, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Astrophys. J., 701, L68 (2009).

29. Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), New J. Phys., 11, 073032 (2009).

28. LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Rep. Prog. Phys., 72, 076901 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0711.3041 [gr-qc]).

27. First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D80, 062002 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0904.4718 [astro-ph]).

26. Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D79, 122001 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0901.0302 [gr-qc]).

25. Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D80, 042003 (2009), (preprint: arXiv: 0905.1705 [gr-qc]).

24. All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 111102 (2009), (preprint: arXiv:0810.0283 [gr-qc]).

23. Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 211102 (2008), (preprint: arXiv:0808.2050 [astro-ph]).

22. First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO600 data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Class. Quantum Grav., 25, 245008 (2008), (preprint: arXiv: 0807.2834 [gr-qc]).

21. Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), ApJ Lett., 683, 45 (2008), (preprint: arXiv: 0805.4758 [gr-qc]).

20. The Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D79, 022001 (2009) (preprint: arXiv: 0804.1747 [gr-qc]).

19. Searching for gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A with LIGO, Karl Wette et al., (preprint: arXiv:0802.3332 [gr-qc]) (submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series).

18. Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D78, 042002 (2008) (preprint: arXiv:0712.2050 [gr-qc]).

17. Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Astrophysical Jour. 681, 1419 (2008), (preprint: arXiv: 0711.1163 [astro-ph]).

16. Coherent searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: results from the second LIGO science run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D76, 082001 (2007) (preprint: arXiv: gr-qc/0605028).

15. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D77, 022001 (2008) (preprint: arXiv: 0708.3818 [gr-qc]).

14. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with 39 Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Data from the Second, Third, and Fourth LIGO Runs, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D77, 062004 (2008) (preprint: arXiv: 0709.0766 [gr-qc]).

13. A Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts with AURIGA and LIGO, By AURIGA Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration (L. Baggio et al.), Class. Quantum Grav., 25, 095004 (2008) (preprint: arXiv: 0710.0497 [gr-qc]).

12. Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev., D77, 062002 (2008) (preprint: arXiv: 0704.3368 [gr-qc]).

11. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Class. Quant. Grav., 24, 5343 (2007) (preprint: gr-qc/0704.0943).

10. Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806-20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D76, 062003 (2007) (preprint: astro-ph/0703419).

9. First Cross-Correlation Analysis of Interferometric and Resonant-Bar Gravitational Wave Data for Stochastic Backgrounds, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration, ALLEGRO Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D76, 022001 (2007) (preprint: gr-qc/0703068).

8. Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D76, 082003 (2007) (preprint: astro-ph/0703234).

7. Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. D76, 042001 (2007) (preprint: gr-qc/0702039).

6. Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Astrophysical Jour. 659, 918 (2007) (preprint: astro-ph/0608606).

5. The GEO-HF project, By GEO Scientific Collaboration, (B. Willke et al.), Class. Quant. Grav., 23, S207-S214 (2006).

4. Status of the GEO600 detector, By GEO Scientific Collaboration (H. Luck et al.), Class. Quant. Grav., 23, S71-S78 (2006).

3. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Class. Quant. Grav., 23, S29-S39 (2006) (preprint: gr-qc/0511146).

2. Upper limits on a stochastic background of gravitational waves, By LIGO Scientific Collaboration (B. Abbott et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 221101 (2005) (preprint: astro-ph/0507254).

1. First report on the S3 analysis by Einstein@Home, http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/PartialS3Results/einstein_writeup.html. (This report was refereed by many scientists, however the authors decided not to publish it in a journal instead being published for a public usage in the web-page.)

Conference Proceedings and Abstracts

9. Driven two-dimensional granular fluids exhibit precursors to glass transition, Iraj Gholami, Andrea Fiege, Annette Zippelius, German Physical Society (DPG) Meeting, March 21-26, 2010, Regensburg, Germany

8. Computing the F-Statistic for continuous gravitational waves using a network of detectors, Iraj Gholami, Reinhard Prix and Curt Cutler, The 10th Annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW-10), Brownsville, USA, December 14-17, 2005. (Abstract)

7. Optimized Search Strategies for Continuous Gravitational Waves, Iraj Gholami, Curt Cutler and Badri Krishnan, The 9th Annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW-9), Annecy, France, December 15-18, 2004. (Abstract)

6. Hierarchical Search Strategies for Unknown Pulsars, Iraj Gholami, Curt Cutler and Badri Krishnan, The 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23, 2004. (Abstract)

5. Optimized Hierarchical Continuous-Wave Searches, Badri Krishnan, Curt Cutler and Iraj Gholami, LSC (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Meeting (ASIS session), LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana, USA, March 15-18, 2004. (Abstract)

4. Multi-Serving Seeing Monitor, S. Nasiri, G.M. Popov, B. Irkaev, I. Gholami, A.F. Lagutin, Proceeding, 6th Annual Conference of Physical Society of Iran, Aug. 28-31, 2001, Iran.

3. Site Selection for Optical Observatory (concern to the Iranian National Optical Observatory), I. Gholami and S. Nasiri, The 5th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of Iran, Feb. 8-9, 2001, IASBS, Zanjan, Iran.

2. Timing the Eclipse Aug 11, 1999 in Tiran (a city of Iran), and correcting the Lunar limb irregularities in order to calculate the variations in Solar diameter, I. Gholami, F.Tabatabaei and J. E. Jones, The 4th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of Iran, Feb. 3-4, 2000, IASBS, Zanjan, Iran.

1. A new technique to study the variability of the sun and data analysis, I. Gholami and J. Singh, The 4th Annual Meeting of Astronomical Society of Iran, Feb. 3-4, 2000, IASBS, Zanjan, Iran.

BOOKS:

1. Book translation to Persian: “The lighter side of Gravity, J.V. Narlikar, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1996”. Jahad Daneshgahi Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-600-133-007-0.

2. Book in Persian: “Gravitational Waves, from nature to detection”, (under preparation).

3. Book in Persian: “Physics of Remote Sensing”, (under preparation).

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Last updated: 22 June 2011.