News
Middle of April 2007
While I have added lots of pages to this website and I have updated many others, I forgot to update this page. Since last year many things happened, which I try to cover the main ones here.
First, Fatemeh and I got our Canadian marriage certificate, however we still have some related works to do in Iran. She finished her master degree and defended her thesis successfully in August 2006. Now she is working as a researcher at Guelph under supervision of different Prof. than her previous master degree supervisor.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I wrote some of my recent thoughts in an article by the name of “Bugs in our cultures” or “مشكلات فرهنگی ما ایرانیان” which has been read by thousands of readers since I published it here in August 06. Many people have shared their ideas/comments with me since then. I presented the content in a Teleconference at "Tehran Center of Art & Science" in the last November. You can find the Powerpoint file as well as the poster here.
Every PhD student of our department is supposed to present his/her research in at least two seminars in his/her period of study and I successfully presented my Phys. Chem. Seminar in Jan. 30, 07.
I have expanded my website and now it has more than eighty pages with near 2000 unique visitors per day. You can find more about the statistics here. Many of the new pages links can be found in these two pages (Photo Gallery, Canada Photo Gallery).
Our immigration process is getting close to its final steps and we are hopeful to become landed immigrant of Canada in a few months. I hope I can add the news of that in the next update of this page.
Was written at the end of March 2006
My life became busier since I moved to Toronto. Now I am in second semester of PhD here. During these two semesters I had lots of teaching experiences both in physics and chemistry (more than 230 hours). I was the TA of a first year physics lab at physics department and a third year experimental physical chemistry at chemistry department of university of Toronto. It was my first experience to work with the specific group of students for long time and from student feedbacks it seems that I was kind of successful in this new experience. I started my project since the middle of the second semester. My project is about the discreet molecular dynamic of Proteins at liquids. Other members of groups has accomplished the simulation of water using DMD technique. I passed one challenging course, Molecular and Chemical dynamics in liquids, in Fall.
I published my master project results at PRE (Physical review E, 73, 032701, 2006) in March. Phys. Rev. E is the second well-known magazine in my research area after the Physics review Letters which is the most well-known magazine for all areas of the physics. The paper was accepted just one month after we submitted the magazine, which is very fast in compare to the typical process times. You can find the paper here.
Finally in January 2006 I bough my military service in Iran through Iranian embassy at Ottawa and now I am exempted from doing the military service. While the Ottawa was really cold at winter, the trip was really wonderful. You can find some Ottawa photos here.
I have expanded my websites by adding lots of different pages such as Toronto Landscapes Gallery , Guelph Photo Gallery and Sofreh Irani. Now there are near 500Mg photos at my website. Just Toronto Landscape Gallery has 5 sub galleries as CN Tower Views, University of Toronto St. George Photo Gallery, Toronto Subway Photos Gallery, New Year Celebration at City Hall & Royal Ontario Museum Photos.
Beside all of those we participated or help to organize different parties/ceremonies. The major one is my convocation party, which would be a really amazing memory for me forever. You can find some photos of my master degree convocation here. At Norouz by the financial help of our department we held a Norouz party at our department. To find the photos refer to here.
Living for more than 32 months outside of Iran helped me to figure out a lot about Iranian culture as well as myself. I hope I have time to write some of them in future.
Was written in the end of November 2005
I moved to Toronto around Sept. 4 and I started the new life here. Moving from small city to the large city makes lots of changes in my life style. Generally my life became more interesting and more challenging since I came here. I love my new department which I joint since I found it really outstanding and famous in the area which I am working. I found the university of Toronto more interesting and completely richer than my previous universities. The effect of having found can be seen in different kinds of activities at university of Toronto. One of the significant point about the university of Toronto for me is its big community of Iranian students. I met lots of my old friend from High school and my university in these 2-3 months and I could find and explore some parts of my past here.
I started my PhD program with Prof. Schofield and most probably I will work on the protein folding topic. This semester I took just one tough course which uses lots of my time but I have learned a lot from this course. I took a TA position from the physics department for this semester but I should do a TA for the chemistry department in the next semesters. It seems that my paper about my master project is finalized for publishing at Physical Review E. It took lots of time from Don and me to become ready and we hope we can write another paper on the extension of this work by doing further work.
I published my homepages at university of Toronto http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/~hbayat/ . The visitors of my homepage (hanifworld.com) reached to near 500 visitors per day! Nowadays most of my visitors are from USA-EU-Canada and Iran respectively. Most of the site visitors are interested in my nature picture gallery page and my links pages.
Was written in the end of August 2005
I did my master defense successfully on August 9th and I submitted the last version of my thesis after adding more calculation on 19th of August. It was revised several times before being submitted and officially I finished my master after submitting my thesis materials and finishing the paper works on August 19th. Beside this, I officially registered for the PhD program of University of Toronto during the August. I should choose my supervisor in the second & third weeks of September. Unlike the most of graduate programs in Canadian universities, after I got admission I am free to choose my supervisor after having meetings with several of them. This means, in our program (Chemical physics - U of T), students got their admissions by the department and not specific supervisor. I will choose my supervisor in the area of theoretical chemical physics and I think I know my desired supervisor.
My parents came here exactly the day after my thesis defense at the afternoon of August 10th and they left here after near 3 weeks around 10pm on August 29th. We had a great time together. They loved Guelph since they found it really beautiful, clean and quite. We (my parents, Fatemeh and I) had several fun activities such as different trips to around cities, going to wonderful zoo (African Lion Safari), visiting different attractive nature sites and going to different restaurants and festivals. They loved the Canada nature and enjoyed the nice warm weather of end of summer (It was cooler than July). It was a great chance to have them here just beside myself after being far from each other for almost 2 years.
Finally I bought a car in the firsts of August. I got a really good deal and I bought a Toyota Camry 97 with very reasonable price. Having a car, helped me a lot during stay of parents here in Canada. Buying a car was a great experience in my life since I learned a lot about cars and bargaining culture here in Canada.
I found a place at east of Toronto just beside subway in the tall building and I will move to Toronto at the firsts of September.
Was written in July 2005
I will do my master defense in the firsts of August. It was passed the first reviews by my supervisor and I am waiting to receive the respond of my advisor committee members. You can find my thesis materials here. Beside this my parents got their visa and they will come to visit me in August. I should make ready every things for their arrival.
I am busy with some official works for both my graduation at University of Guelph and registering and choosing TAs at University of Toronto. Beside this I am looking for a house in Toronto and proper car to buy. Actually I bought a good car (Toyota Corolla 96) but I cancelled the contract for some complicated reasons.
The weather is hot here. In compare with the last year the weather is completely warmer in this summer. I should mention that the weather is completely humid here (like the north of Iran) so you feel the temperature higher than the actual temperature. In average in south Ontario there are 15 days above 30 degree in all the summer period however in this summer we have had more than 20 days over 30 till this moment. In the last year there were just 5 days in total over 30 degree!
I presented a poster at GWPI poster session and I will start writing a paper from next week.
Was written in June 2005
I finished writing my thesis and I think I will do my master defense in the ends of July or firsts of August. It takes time from my supervisor as well as my advisor committee members to check and review my thesis materials, then I think I will put my thesis online in my academic site. Beside that we got wonderful results in the last step of my project and I hop I can publish our results soon.
I made my decision to continue my PhD at University of Toronto in the same area that I have done my master degree here. I think I will have more chance at Toronto university to become closer to my objectives.
My parents may come here to visit me in August. They should go to Canadian embassy to check their chance. I think they will get it and I hope they can come here in proper time.
Just in the last week Iran football team went to world cup 2006 in Germany after Iran won the game over Bahrain at Tehran. Fortunately we had a chance to watch the game through Internet here and this wonderful happiness was shared with us.
Since I am moving to Toronto in September, I should go to find an apartment there in this month or the next month. Beside that, I will look for a proper car again. (If I become successful this time ! )
Was written in April 2005
Almost the fifth semester is finished. I had passed all my courses till the end of 4th semester and I did all my TAs for this year. I should finish my master project in summer since I think I will do my master defense in August 2005.
My lovely Fatemeh finally came to Guelph to continue her master in B.I.G. (Biophysics Interdisciplinary Program) in Mathematics department. We reached each other after being far for 15 months and 25 days. After that our lives have been totally changed and become much happier and more beautiful.
I got an admission from Toronto university for continuing my PhD there in the same area as I am working here (Complex liquids, chemical physics and statistical physics) but at chemistry department. I have an admission from my current supervisor in GWPI (Guelph-Waterloo physics Institute) also and I am waiting to receive the result of application in McMaster University (This one is not the same area as my master research area and it is related to financial mathematics). Now I should decide weather to continue here or go to Toronto university.
My human network has been expanded since I become more stable here. Beside that I feel that now I know many hidden rules of this society and all these make me feel as relax and familiar to my environment as I was in my home town. I have tried to contact many of my old friends, who are far from me, and keep my good relationship with them. We established ISAG (Iranian students association of university of Guelph) and we held several fun activities during the last months.
As you found yourself I moved my website from http://hanif.sharifedu.org to http://www.hanifworld.com because of the problems happened in sharifedu.org services. After I bought this domain, I have tried to make this site as a complete personal homepage. Now I have more than 1000 files with more than 35 pages (html page) in my website. According the precise statistics of my host provider just in April hanifworld.com had more than 1500 unique visitors, 2000 visitors and near 40000 hits! And I used more than 1.4 gigabyte bandwidth of my site. It seems that the number of visitors of this site has been increase by the rate of near 26% in the last three months.
I got my driver license (G2) just in December and now I am thinking of getting a car in future soon but many things depends on my decision to continue here or going to Toronto since the cost for the car insurance is really different in these cities.
Was written in November 2004,
I am in 4th semester and I will finish my courses this semester by passing the final course which is from mathematics Department. I am nearly did well the first step of my project and I started the significant part witch is extra than what it was defined at first. I was really satisfied with my house because of my independence in bachelor apt. but because of some problems such as its oldness I may change my house again. My good friend, Sara, came Canada in August and we had wonderful time together. We helped each other much during the last months.
My lovely Fatemeh got admission from mathematics department and she will come here in December. Now I am planning my future with her and I need to make ready many things before her arrival. I really missed her and I am really happy that we will be with each other after being far for 16 months. I think by Fatemeh's help I can increase my human network. You will hear a lot in future soon.
I am trying to get my driver license (G2) in the next month or maybe this month. I hope every thing going well and I can get it as soon as possible since I really need it now. I did a course for decreasing my insurance.
And now I am thinking of my life after getting M.S. and what I should do for PHD ... and ... and ...
Was written in May 2004,
The second semester was finished. I got better marks than previous semester and I have started my M.S. project as well. I described my project for advisory committee and now I am ready enough to step in my second level of my project. You can visit my academic site https://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/~hanif/ to find more about what I did in previous semester.
I have got more information about new culture and its advantages and disadvantages. I found myself, self confident enough to criticize some of the new culture aspects like what I did in my home country and I am trying to make my results more precise by paying attention to the surrounding and have hard talks with friends and colleagues.
I moved my house just in the first of May and now I am living alone in my bachelor apartment. I found this house more comfortable than my previous place since I have my own kitchen and bathroom. In the previous months I have learned much about cooking and house managing as well as decorating.
We are trying to find one position for my lovely Girl friend to bring her here.
Was written in January 2004,
I have lived here at Guelph in Canada for more than 4 months and I finished my first semester here. I did one TA in the area of biophysics and I started slightly my research project. I am completely satisfied with my new life and I try to be adopted completely successfully in new society. I have experienced lots of new stuffs such as living with some Canadian roommates, TA/RA beside studying, cooking and managing my economical life completely by myself, having friends from different nationalities and etc.
was written before August 2003,
I got my B.Sc. in physics form Sharif University of Technology in Feb. 2003. I have passed 142 units in my B.Sc. period and have got lots of experience in research and life ( I have experienced LOVE and many nice aspects of human life) . Our research on automatic phonetization of type written Persian language presented for a conference in Armenia.
I got admissions from Europe, Canada and U.S. in different subjects such as computational science, mechanical engineering, complex systems and physics of complex systems but I came to Canada to continue my education ( M.S.) in Guelph-Waterloo physics Ins. ( Joint program between Waterloo university and Guelph university) under supervision of Prof. Sullivan. in the area of complex systems.
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Last Update: 05/04/2007