In the opening ceremony of the 53rd Iranian Mathematical Conference held at Mazandaran University, the special award of the Iranian Mathematical Association in Geometry and Topology (Hashtroudi Award) was given to Prof. Majid Gazor, a faculty member of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in Isfahan University of Technology, and Dr. Ahmad Shoghi, a postdoctoral researcher of this department.
The joint research of Prof. Gazor and Dr. Shoghi on the topic of topology in music has produced interesting subjects including the acceptance of 4 papers from which 3 are published in prestigious scientific journals. One of these papers is accepted to be published in the journal of Communications in Mathematical Physics, and two other ones are to be published in the Journal of Differential Equations.
Despite the active history of more than a century about the bifurcation theory, this theory has been used for the first time by Prof. Gazor and Dr. Shoghi, in the modeling of the resonance of musical sounds (one paper) and the dynamic analysis of musical chords (another paper).
Prof. Majid Gazor is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and an associate professor of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Isfahan University of Technology, and Dr. Ahmad Shoghi is a PhD graduate and a postdoctoral researcher of this university.