CURRICULUM - VITAE

Name: Ali Ahmad Ali Fora

Rank: Full Professor since Sept. 1st, 1986.

Permanent address: Department of Mathematics, Yarmouk University, Irbid - Jordan

Telephone: Jordan: Office (00-962-2-7211111), Ext. (2696)

Mobile: 00-962-0777-485775

Fax: 00962-2-7211117

E-mail: afora_jo @Yahoo.com &

Date of birth: November 22, 1951

Place of birth: Ghaza, Palestine

Nationality: Jordanian

Religion: Islam

Marital Status: Married : Nawal and Mariam.

Number of Children: 8 (Ahmad, Mohammed, Mahmoud, Mazen, Maher, Maram, Malak, Malek)

Languages: Arabic, English and French (reading only).

Educational qualifications :

Degree Institution Date Attending Language

B.Sc. in Math. Jordan University 1969 - 1973 English

M. Sc. in Math. SUNY at Buffalo 1973 - 1975 English

Ph.D. in Math. SUNY at Buffalo 1973 - 1976 English

Ph.D. Thesis: Covering Dimension of Arbitrary Spaces.

(Advisor: Prof. S. Mrowka).

Teaching Experience :

i) Dates Position Institution Language

Feb. 76 - July 76 Assistant Professor Jordan University English

July 76 - 1982 Assistant Professor Yarmouk University English

1982 - 1983 Associate Professor King Saud Univ. Abha (Saudi Arabia) Arabic

(Sabbatical Year I) (Now: King Khalid University)

1982 - 1986 Associate Professor Yarmouk University English

1986 - 1989 Full Professor Yarmouk University English

1989 - 1990 Full Professor Yarmouk/Bahrain Univ. English

(Sabbatical Year II)

1990 - 1993 Full Professor Bahrain University English

1993 - 1999 Full Professor Yarmouk University English

1999 - 2000 Full Professor Yarmouk University and English

(Sabbatical Year III) King Faisal University (Saudi Arabia) Arabic

2000 - now Full Professor Yarmouk University English

September 1,2006 (The beginning of the Sabbatical Year IV ); but I postponed it.

Sept.2010-July 2011 Full Professor Najran Univ. (Saudi Arabia) Arabic(undergrad.)

(Sabbatical-yearIV) English(Grad. Stud.)

Sept.2010- now Full Professor Yarmouk University English

ii) Teaching any Math. Course at the undergraduate level (e.g. Calculus, Linear Algebra, Abstract

Algebra, Geometry, Set Theory, Discrete Mathematics , Fuzzy Set Theory, Topology, Real Analysis (1) & (2) , Complex Analysis, Number Theory, Logic ,Differential Equations, Mathematics for Engineering students, Mathematics for Business students).

Teaching topology , Measure Theory, Algebra, Selected Topics in Mathematics : at graduate levels. Also teaching Selected Topics in Mathematics at Graduate level .Teaching some courses in Statistics and Probability.

iii) I am one of a three-member committee (first semester 2007-2008) responsible for making the Calculus Exams (The first, the second and the final) for 30 sections ( almost 2000 students) on line using computer facilities.

Research Activities:

a) Area of research interest:

Dimension Theory, Fixed Point Theory, Bitopological Spaces, Fuzzy Set Theory, Fuzzy toplogical spaces, Fuzzy groups, D-metric spaces, Generalised metric spaces, Generalizations of

Metric spaces, Sizable spaces, Homogenous Spaces, (General Topology, Analysis ,Algebra and Number Theory).

b) Research Guidance:

i- Supervised 14 M.Sc. students in Yarmouk University in different areas of General Topology.

Supervised also 1 M.Sc. student in Mathematical Education (see the list attached herewith).

ii- I was a member in at least 50 M.Sc. graduate committees in Mathematics and Mathematical

Education in several universities (e.g. Yarmouk Univ. , Mutaa Univ., Aal-Albayt Univ….).

iii- I was appointed as an external supervisor by City University - London in the period Feb. 1990 -

Sept. 1993 for the Ph.D. student Mr. A. S. Abu Safiya (He got his Ph.D. in Sept. 1993).

iv- I was appointed as an external supervisor by Damascus University - Syria for the Ph.D. student Mr. Murad Oqla Massadeh (He got his Ph.D. in 2008).

c) Publications:

See the list attached herewith.

d) Other research activities :

Acted as one of the referees for research papers submitted for publications in the following Journals:

1- Fuzzy Sets and Systems -The Netherland .

2- Abhath Al-Yarmouk - Jordan.

3- Al al-Bayt University Journal - Jordan.

4- Muata'h Journal - Jordan.

5- Dirasat - Jordan.

6- Al-Najah National University - Palestine.

7- The Islamic University of Gaza- Palestine .

8- Iraqi Journal of Sciences - Iraq.

9- Arab Journal of Mathematics - Iraq.

10- Damascus University Journal - Syria.

11-“Sarajevo Journal of Mathematics” formerly "Radovi Matematicki".

12- Jordan Journal of Math. & Stat.", Jordan.

13-Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics.

14-Italian Journal of pure and applied mathematics.

15-Applied Mathematics Letters

Honors : Award Shauman's Prize for Arab Young Mathematicians for the year 1985.

Conferences: I attended and participated in the following:

1. 16th Science Week in Syria - 1976

2. 18th Science Week in Syria - 1978

3. 20th Science Week in Syria - 1980

4. 32nd Science Week in Syria - 1992

5. 33rd Science Week in Syria - 1993

6. International Conference on Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICPAM 95), 19-22 Nov.1995, Bahrain.

7. Conference in Michigan - Kalamazoo- 1975 (before Ph.D.).

Positions , Committees and Academic Activities:

1. Chairman of Mathematics Department - Yarmouk University for the two years 1987 and 1988.

2. A member in Shauman's refereeing committee for Arab Young Mathematicians in the years 1986 , 1991 and 2000.

3. A member in several academic and non-academic committees.

4. I am a tenured faculty member in Yarmouk University.

5. I was a referee for a promotion to many faculty members in Baghdad University / Iraq, the Zerka Private University | Jordan and the Islamic University / Gaza, Palestine to the ranks of Full and

Associate Professors.

6. I was a referee in the Kuwait University - Research Pool System.

7. Evaluation of Math. Curriculum for compulsory level in schools administrated by Jordanian Ministry of Education (April 1987).

8. Training Math. Supervisors for ministry of Education - Jordan in August 1995.

9. I was a member of the Editorial board of "Abhath Al-Yarmouk Journal" for the period Oct.1995-Oct. 1998.

10. Supervising the Math. Subject in the Yarmouk Model School for four years by attending classes and instructing teachers for better ways of teaching .

11. Evaluation toward giving the certificate to some private Universities in 1997 and 1998 (Namely : Irbid - Private University and Zerka Private University) .

12. I was a referee for evaluating a book in “Topology” in order to publish it to Zerka Private University in the year 2000.

13- I was a referee for evaluating a book in “Number Theory” to Hebron University –Palestine in the year 2006.

14-I was a member of the committee sponsored by the Higher Ministry of Education to make a Qualifying Exam for the B.Sc. graduated students in mathematics from all Jordanian universities in the academic year 2005/2006.

15- After asking me as a referee by the Dean; Dr. Yehya Al-Hafthee ; of Najran University , I gave in April 2011a full report on the Al-tahdeereiaah mathematics curriculum including the courses Math.140 and Math.150 : their syllabi , teaching, exams, itc.(these courses are compulsory for students planning to specialize in Medicine, Engineering, Computer Science, Pharmacy and Dentistry colleges).

16- After asking me as a referee by the vice president; Dr. Mohammed Al-Fayaa; of Najran University, I gave in May 2011 a full report on the "proposed" book entitled " Principles on Real Analysis" مباديء" التحليل الحقيقي"(The author : Dr. Ameen Hmood Al-Sunawi).

Research Papers in Mathematics by Ali A.Fora:

1. A. A. Fora, On the covering Dimension of Subspaces of Product of Sorgenfrey Lines, Proc. A.M.S. Vol 72, No. 3, Dec. 1978, pp. 601-606.

2. A. A. Fora, Modified Forms for the Union Problem in Dimension Theory, Iraqi J. Sci., Vol. 21, No. 3, 1980, pp. 656-665.

3. A. A. Fora, On Some Test Spaces in Dimension Theory, Fund Math., CXI (1981), pp. 19-23.

4. A. A. Fora, Fixed Point Theorems for Compact Spaces and Ordered Spaces, Dirasat, Vol VIII, No. 1, June 1981, pp. 29-37.

5. A. A. Fora, Ordered Sets in Dimension Theory , Zanco, Series A, 1981,Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 111-120.

6. A. A. Fora, The Covering Dimension of Product of Generalized Sorgenfrey Lines, Mathematicki Vesnik, 5 (18) (33), 1981, pp. 33-41.

7. A. A. Fora, On Some Diophantine Equations related to Fermat's Last Theorem, Iraqi J. Sci,

Vol. 2, 1981, pp. 265-275.

8. A.A. Fora and M. Khawaldeh, Religion as a mathematical model, Social Scientific J. 1981

(special volume because of the beginning of the fifteenth Islamic century), pp. 133-146.

9. A.A. Fora, A Fixed Point Theorem for Product Spaces, Pacific Journal of Math., Vo. 99,

No.2, 1982, pp. 327-335.

10. H. Z. Hdeib and A. A. Fora, On Pairwise Paracompact Spaces, Dirasat, Vol. IX, Dec. 1982, No. 2, pp. 21-30.

11. A.A.Fora and H.Z. Hdeib, On Pairwise Lindelof Spaces, Revista Colombiana de Mathematicas, Vol. XVII, (1983), pp. 37-58.

12. A. A. Fora, On some Results Concerning Metrizable Spaces and Pseudocompact Spaces in Fixed

Point Theory, Arab J. of Math. , Vol. 4, No.1-2, 1983, pp. 5 - 20.

13. A. A. Fora, Strongly Zero-Dimensional Bitopological Spaces, J. Univ. Kuwait (Sci.) 11, 1984, pp. 181- 190.

14. A. A. Fora, Generalized Open Spheres in Generalized metric Spaces, Arab Gulf J. Scient. Res. 2(2), 1984, pp. 593-605.

15. A. A. Fora, Metrization of countably Compact Spaces, Math. Japonica, 29, No. 5 , (1984), pp. 785- 794.

16. A. A. Fora, Some results on sizable spaces, Indian J. Pure appl. Math., 15(6) , June 1984, pp.613- 622.

17. A. A. Fora, Semi-Metrizable, Submetrizable and Sizable Spaces, Revista Colombiana

de Mathematicas, Vol. 18, No. 3-4, 1984, pp. 151-173.

18. A. A. Fora, On Some remarks concerning Countably Compact Spaces, Dirasat, Vol. XII, No.2, Feb. 1985, pp. 161-166.

19. A. A. Fora, Fixed Point Theory and Product, Sub., Super Spaces, Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, Vol. 16(2), 1985, pp. 97-113.

20. A. A. Fora, A Fixed Point Theorem for Contraction Mappings for non Metrizable Spaces, METU JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES, Vol. 18, No. 2, August 1985, pp.127-137.

21. A. A. Fora, New Generalization of Metric Spaces, Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 78, 1986, pp. 19-26.

22. A. A. Fora, Sizable is Equivalent to Submetrizable, Arab Gulf J. Scient. Res, Vol. 4, No. 2, Dec.. 1986, pp. 587-59 5.

23. A. A. Fora and M. Refaii, Fixed Point Theory in Bitopological Spaces, Arab Gulf J. Scient. Res., Math., Phys. Sci., A5 (1), pp. 1-10 (1987).

24. A. A. Fora, Fuzzy Separation Axioms and Fuzzy Continuity, Arab Gulf J. Scient. Res., Math. Phys.

Sci., A5 (3), pp. 307-318, (1987).

25. A. A. Fora, The Covering Dimension of Submetrizable Spaces, Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc.81 (1989),

No. 2, pp. 99 - 107.

26. A. A. Fora, Separation Axioms for Fuzzy Spaces, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 33, No. 1, Oct. 1989, pp. 59 -75.

27. A. A. Fora, Separation Axioms, Subspaces and product Spaces in Fuzzy Topology, Arab Gulf J.

Scient. Res., Math. Phys. Sci. 8(3), pp. 1-16, (1990).

28. A. A. Fora, On Fuzzy Ro Topological Spaces , PROC. NAT. ACAD. SCI. INDIA, 62 (A) ,IV, 1992, pp. 665 - 671.

29. A. Abu Safiya, A. Fora and M. Warner, Compactness and weakly induced bifuzzy topological spaces, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 62 (1994), pp. 89-96.

30. A. Abu Safiya, A. Fora and M. Warner, Fuzzy separation axioms and Fuzzy continuity in Fuzzy bitopological spaces , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 62 (1994) ,pp. 367-373.

31. A. Fora, On Fuzzy and Topological Spaces, J. Fac. Sci , UAE Univ. Vol. 7, No. 12, (1995), pp. 139 -149.

32. A. Abu Safiya, A. Fora and M. Warner, Connectedness and p-continuity in bifuzzy topological spaces, Punjab University J. Math. , Vol. XXVIII, (1995), pp. 90-104.

33. A. Abu Safiya, A. Fora and M. Warner, Higher separation axioms in bifuzzy topological spaces, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 79, (1996) , pp.367-372.

34. A. Fora and A. Al-Bsoul , Finite Homogeneous Spaces, The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1997, pp. 1089 - 1094.

35. A. Fora, A. Tallafha and A. Al-Bsoul, - Dense Homogeneous Spaces, Dirasat, Pure Sciences, Vol.26 , No.2, 1999, pp. 221-226.

36. A. Tallafha, A. Bsoul and A. Fora, Countable dense Homogeneous Bitopological Spaces. Turk J. Math.Vol.23, No.2, 1999, pp.233-242.

37. A. Fora, New and Old Types of Homogeneity, Turk J. Math. Vol.24, No.4, 2000, pp. 335 - 344.

38. A. Fora, On Several kinds of Homogeneous Spaces, Abhath Al-Yarmouk J.,”Pure Sci. & Eng.”, vol.11,

no.1B, 2002, pp. 255-268.

39. A.Fora, Countable Homogeneous Spaces, Mu’tah Journal Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat, Vol.16, No.2, 2001, pp. 9-26.

40. A. Fora, On Homogeneous Bitopological Spaces, Abhath Al-Yarmouk J.”Pure Sci. & Eng.”, vol.11, no.1A, 2002, pp. 55 - 62.

41. A. Fora and S. Al- Ghour, Homogeneity in Fuzzy Spaces, Questions and Answers in General Topology, vol.19, No.2, 2001 , pp.159-164 .

42. A. Al-Bsoul, A. Fora and A. Tallafha, Countable Dense Homogeneous Bitopological Spaces and Lower Separation Axioms, Saitama Journal of Mathematics, Japan, 2003, vol.21, pp. 33-39.

43. A. Al-Bsoul, A. Fora and A. Tallafha, Strong and Weak n-Homogeneous Spaces, Qatar Univ.Sci.J.(2004),24:5-11 .

44. S. Al-Ghour, Kh. Zoubi and A. Fora , Semihomogeneous topological spaces,

Publ.Math.Debrecen,67/1-2(2005),131-143.

45. S. Al- Ghour and A. Fora, Minimality and Homogeneity in Fuzzy Spaces, The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics,Vol.12,No.3,2004,Los Angeles,725-737.

46. A. Tallafha, A. Bsoul and A. Fora, Closurely Ordered Countable Sets and Applications ,Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics ( GJPAM),ISSN 0973-1768, Vol.1 ,No.2,2005, pp. 177-182, India.

47. M.A.H. Shakhatreh , W.A.A. Shatanawi, M.M.M. Jaradat, A.A.A. Fora, On Fuzzy Partitions, International J. Pure and Applied Math.,Vol.30,No.4,(2006), 467-474.

48. A. Fora, Minimal Open Sets and Homogeneous Spaces, Al-Manarah J. Al-Albayt Univ. J. vol.12 , no. 2 , 2006, pp.9-23.

49. A. Tallafha, A. Al-Bsoul and A. Fora, Countable Dense Homogeneous Spaces and Countable

Sets of Up -Separated Form, the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Math. , to appear.

50. S. Al- Ghour and A. Fora, Fuzzy minimality and homogeneity, to appear in the journal: International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.

51. M.A. Shakhatreh , A. A. Fora , M. M. Jaradat and W.A. Shatanawi , Partition and Fuzzy Partition, to appear in the journal :International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences,Vol.20, No.1,(2007).

52- A. Fora, A.Bellour and A. Al-Bsoul, "Some results in Fixed Point Theory Concerning Generalized Metric Spaces", Matematicki Vesnik 61,3, (2009), 203-208.