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1.I have taught basic freshman physics, trying a new teaching method. The method I used was to emphasize the concepts and model building aspects of Classical Mechanics and ElectroMagnetism first and then once the concepts are in place build the formulation. I think, if done with a special care, this can be very successful method for training theoretical physicists. The lecture notes of these course was published in a two volume book (though in Farsi).
2. One semester (2 hours per week) course on AdS/CFT and its string theory roots, Fall 2013, IPM. My lecture notes may be found at
http://physics.ipm.ac.ir/phd-courses/semester8/AdS-CFT-lecturenotes-2013.pdf.
3. One semester (2 hours per week) course on Conformal Field Theory in Various dimensions, Winter-Spring 2013, IPM. My lecture notes may be found at http://physics.ipm.ac.ir/phd-courses/semester7/CFT-course-2013.pdf.
4. One semester (4 hours per week) course on Black Hole Physics and AdS/CFT Duality, Fall 2012, IPM.
5. Quantum Field Theory II: Renormalization Group and Non-Abelian Gauge Theories, Spring 2012, IPM.
6. An advanced Gravitation course for PhD students, Fall 2011.
7. A one year course on Quantum Field Theory for PhD students, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, at IPM.
8. A one year course on String Theory for PhD students, 2005 at IPM.
9. Part two of a two semester course on Quantum Mechanics, 1998 Sharif University.
10. A two semester undergraduate course on Classical Mechanics, 1997 Sharif University.
11. A basics physics course on Thermodynamics and elementary Stat. Mech. for physics major freshmen, 1995 Sarif University.
12. A course on physics of waves for physics major freshmen, 1994 Sharif University.

I also have experience with guiding PhD students with their dissertations and thesis:

I have co-advised several MSc and PhD level students, e.g. A.A. Abolhassani (the main adviser was Prof. H. Firouzjahi). I have also been co-adviser to two philosophy of physics students (A. Yaghmaei and S. Masoumi). A. Yaghmaei has defended his thesis in March 2013.
I have currently three PhD students just started their thesis on aspects of black hole physics.
My other student worked on inflation within gauge field theories has graduated in June 2012 and is currently a postdoc at IPM. We have written a review article for Physics Reports; item #91 in my publication list.
Two PhD students of mine, one of whom was a postdoctoral fellow at ICTP and the other a postdoc at IPM, worked with me on the matrix model formulation for DLCQ of strings on the AdS5 S5 I have proposed, the tiny graviton Matrix model.
I was an informal adviser to Darius Sadri who was a graduate student at Stanford University. We published a review article in Reviews of Modern Physics, #47 in my publication list.
Two ICTP students with their diploma dissertation (it is equivalent to masters degree), the result of which has been published, numbers 20 & 21 in my publication list.