Iran Launches ‘Simorgh’ Supercomputer, 2nd One in the Pipeline
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi says the country will name its next homegrown supercomputer after Maryam Mirzakhani, the late Iranian math genius.
Intl. Day of Mathematics to honor late Iranian mathematician Mirzakhani
TEHRAN – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared March 14 as the International Day of Mathematics (IDM) to pay tribute to late Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani and some other female scientists. According to the UNESCO official website in mid-September through a proposal, prepared by the International Mathematical Union, UNESCO proclaimed […]
New Stanford graduate fellowship named for Maryam Mirzakhani
TEHRAN – Two Iranians have made $800,000 gift to Stanford University to launch ‘Maryam Mirzakhani’ graduate fellowship program to support graduate students of Mathematics at Stanford. Anousheh Ansari and Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard are the two Iranian scientists who have made the $800,000 endowment to Stanford University with the intention of establishing a graduate fellowship program […]