Farshid Hajir
Associate Professor
Associate Department Head
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lederle Graduate Research Tower
710 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003


e-mail: hajir the-at-symbol math.umass.edu
Office: 1623C Lederle Graduate Research Tower
Office Hours: by appointment
Tel: 413-545-6025    Fax: 413-545-1801


|Teaching | Fall 2011|


MATH 113: Math for elementary school teachers I
MATH 471: Theory of Numbers
UNIV 197 Mathematicians: Who are they and what do they do?

|Research|

My main area of study is Number Theory. I am particularly interested in units and class groups of number fields; extensions of global fields with restricted ramification; the arithmetic of elliptic curves; and special values of L-functions.   For preprints, curriculum vitae, etc. please visit my Research Page.

I currently serve on the editorial board of the following publications:

Annales des Sciences Mathématiques du Québec.
Publications Mathématiques de Besançon: Algèbre et Théorie des Nombres

|Service|

I serve as Associate Head for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and as its liaison to the School of Education. I also serve on the University's General Education Council.

|Outreach|

I am a member of the Leverett School Committee, the Amherst Regional Middle School Council, and of the Amherst-Pelham Superintendent Advisory Council. I represented the Massachusetts Association of School Committees on the Special Commission for the Study of School District Collaboration and Regionalization.