Sahand University of Technology was host to Professor Mehdi Golshani, from Saturday Sep. 6 to Monday Sep. 8,2014. He is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist and philosopher and professor of physics at Sharif University of Technology.
Mehdi Golshani is a distinguished lecturer. His main research areas include foundational physics, particle physics, physical cosmology and philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. He is known as a thinker for his writings on science, religion and their interrelation.
Golshani is the founder and chairman of the Faculty of Philosophy of Science at Sharif University of Technology. He is also the director of Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran, and a Professor at Physics Department of Sharif University of Technology, as well as a Senior Fellow of School of Physics at Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM).
He was Invited by SUT to give 3 days lecture to the faculty members of SUT in a cultural program so called Ziafat Andisheh. This program was very fruitful and faculty members enjoyed his views on the interrelation of science and religion.