Amir Babak Aazami

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Professor Aazami’s research area is in differential geometry; in particular, in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry. He also studies gravitational lensing, which is the bending of light by gravity.

He has taught a variety of courses at Clark, from Honors Calculus to Measure Theory, as well as created two new courses on Quantitative Finance and the Mathematics of Voting and Social Choice. He has also self-published a textbook titled “48 Hours of Honors Calculus.”

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, Duke University, 2011

Affiliated Department

Mathematics

Scholarly and creative works

  • Presentations

    “Almost-Einstein” metrics, normal forms, and Petrov Types on 4-manifolds

    Technical University of Denmark
    March
    2024
    Amir Babak Aazami
  • Presentations

    Gravitational waves in vacuum?  On the Ehlers-Kundt conjecture

    Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
    September
    2023
    Amir Babak Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Killing vector fields on Riemannian and Lorentzian 3-manifolds

    Published in Mathematische Nachrichten
    2023
    Robert O. Ream, Amir B. Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Finsler pp-waves and the Penrose Limit

    Published in General Relativity and Gravitation
    2023
    Amir Babak Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Exact Parallel Waves in General Relativity

    Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Special Issue on “Singularity Theorems, causality, and all that (SCRI21),” in honor of Roger Penrose)
    2023
    Amir Babak Aazami, Cian Roche, Carla Cederbaum
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Almost Kähler metrics and pp-wave spacetimes

    Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics
    2022
    Vol. 112
    Issue #84
    Amir Babak Aazami
  • Presentations

    On the geometry of pp-wave spacetimes

    CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
    November
    2022
    Amir Babak Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    On the Einstein condition for Lorentzian 3-manifolds

    Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
    May/2021
    2021
    Vol. 497
    Issue #2
  • Presentations

    Curvature and Killing vector fields on Lorentzian 3-manifolds

    X International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry
    Virtual
    February 1-5
    2021
    Sponsored by University of Córdoba, Spain
    Amir B. Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Kähler metrics via Lorentzian Geometry in dimension four

    Published in Complex Manifolds
    2020
    Vol. 7
    Gideon Maschler, Amir B. Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Canonical Kähler metrics on classes of Lorentzian 4-manifolds

    Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
    2020
    Vol. 57
    Gideon Maschler, Amir B. Aazami
  • Presentations

    The Ehlers-Kundt Conjecture in General Relativity

    AMS Special Session on Mathematical Physics: Some open Problems for the 21st Century
    Denver, CO
    January
    2020
    Sponsored by American Mathematical Society
    Amir B. Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Obstructions to distinguished Riemannian metrics via Lorentzian geometry

    Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
    Amir Babak Aazami
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    On the Petrov Type of a 4-manifold

    Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics
    Amir B Aazami