Once upon a time in IRAN

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Once upon a time in IRAN
Presented by Pujan Ziaie
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Outlines

• Iran
• Iran History and borders
• Persian literature
• Persian ancient art
• About myself
• Education
• Research interests
• Hobbies

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Iran Location
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History

• Iran Before Arabs attack (Islam distribution)
• Iran after Arabs attack and before Mongolian
  conquest
• Iran in the current century

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Founding of Iran (Persia)

• Cyrus The Great (550 BCE)
• Founded Persia
• Declared the first known Charter of Human Rights.
• Iran and Roma 2 great empires

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Borders

• The Sassanid Empire (last empire before Arabs
  attack) 550 - 330 BCE

• First Empire The Achaemenid Empire, 550 - 330 BCE

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Islamic conquest (636 CE)
Sassanid empire was toppled
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Mongolian conquest (13th century )
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We were not the only one
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Iran in the current century

• Pahlavi era (1920-1978)
• Islamic Revolution (from Imperial to Islamic
  Republic)

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Persian literature

• Persian language
• One of the most powerful languages
• Language of poem
• Persian handwriting
• Different from Arabic

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Persian Arts

• Carpet
• Miniature
• Handcraft

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Iran sightseeing places

• Persepolis
• Yazd
• Abyaaneh

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Iran sightseeing places

• and many more..

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Iran - Isfehan
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Isfehan Khaaju bridge
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Iranian New year ceremony

• Last Wednesdays ceremony
• new year table
• 13th getting-rid-of-bad-luck day

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Last Wednesdays ceremony

• Lots of fireworks Roman candles
• Making fire on the streets or roofs
• Your Redness for me, My Yellowness yours
• Eavesdropping (Covertly listening)

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Iranian new year ceremony

• Cleaning up the whole house before new year
• Setting the new year Table
• 7 S-beginning things
• Red fish
• grain plant
• Bread
• Qoran-Hafez
• Mirror,.

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13th removing-bad-luck day

• Bad-luck day (1st April)
• People go outside to nature
• Throwing the grain plant in river
• Girls tie the stems to find husband!
• Throwing gravels in river and make some wishes

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Iran Marriage process

• process of marriage
• Friendship (Not necessary!)
• KhaastGaari (asking)
• Bale-borun (dealing!)
• Mahriye
• Shirbahaa (cost of feed)
• Jaheez
• Engagement (ring)
• Aghd (Religiously husband and wife)
• Marriage (living together)

No intimate relationship please!
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About myself

• Education
• Research plans
• Hobbies

Birthday 1982 03 - 13
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Education

• 174th among 450,000 participant gtgt approved for
  Computer Engineering at Sharif University of
  Technology (2000)
• NOW Participant of YSEP (one year)
• Future applying for Master and PHD.

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Research plans and Interests

• Fuzzy Based Applications (less mathematic)
• Final undergraduate project Developing a Fuzzy
  Controller for a Planar Biped Robot using
  Active Learning Method

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Experiences

• AICTC (Advanced Information and Communication
  Technology Center)
• Low-level Developer (Java J2EE)
• High-level Developer
• Assistant Software Test Manager
• Database Designer (Oracle 9i DB)
• Manager (Software Team)

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My interests for future

• Developing a pure Active Learning Method using
  fuzzy logic, GA and N-N and
• Researching on Human way of thinking and
  inference

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Interests

• Sport
• Rock-climbing, football,
• Music
• Violin, guitar, daf
• Drinking Dancing

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Conclusion

• Iran is a great, ancient country
• Im a very cool guy!