Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Avenue
Charlottetown, PE
Canada C1A 4P3
Office: Cass 401
Telephone: (902) 566 0357
Fax: (902) 566 0466
E-mail: nsaad@upei.ca
Teaching assignment: 2022-2023
Math 2610: Linear Algebra (2 Sections).
Math 3920: Numerical Analysis.
Sabbatical (Winter 2023)Research Interests: Special Functions; Singular Potentials; Spectral Geometry; Eigenvalue Problems: Asymptotic Iteration Method; Heun's differential equations.
PublicationsCollaborators
Professor Mariana Frank, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Dr. Ozlem Yesiltes, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
Professor Richard L. Hall, Concordia University, Canada
Professor Yu. A. Brychkov, Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Professor Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of Central Florida, USA
Professor Kalidas D. Sen, University of Hyderabad, India
Professor Hakan Ciftci, Gazi University, Turkey,
Professor Shi-Hai Dong, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Professor Hari M. Srivastava's home page at University of Victoria, Canada
Professor Sheldon Opps. Unoversity of Prince Edward Island, PE, Canada
Professor Mahmoud Abul-Ez, Sohag University, Egypt.
Dr. Thirulogasanthar Kengatharam, Dawson College, Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Ismail Turan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Professor Dr. Attila B. von Keviczky, Cooncordia University (1941 - 2008)
Students:
- Jonathan
Murley (Ph. D., University of Waterloo)
- Kyle R. Bryenton (M. Sc., University of Guelph)
- David Brandon (Medical Student, Dalhosie University)
- Ali
Fatehi-Hassanabad (Ph.D. Student/Cardiac Surgery Residence, University
of Calgary)
- Keegan K. A.
Kirk (Ph. D. Student, University of Waterloo)
- Ash Arsnault (Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University)
- Victoria Trenton
- Katherine M Robertson
- Brodie Champion
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Non-Refereed Publications
- Tables of the Appell
Hypergeometric Functions F2
Jonathan Murley and Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
arXiv:0809.5203v3 [math-ph, 2009]. - On the solvability of confluent
Heun equation and associated orthogonal polynomials
Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
arXiv:1509.00090v1 [math-ph, 2015]. - On Polynomial Solutions of
Linear Differential Equations with Applications
Kyle R. Bryenton1, Andrew R. Cameron, Keegan L. A. Kirk, Nasser Saad, Patrick Strongman, Nikita Volodin [ps-pdf]
arXiv:2003.08324 [math.CA, 2020].
Refereed Publications
- An accurate zeroth-order perturbation theory for solving power-law potentials within the frame work of the asymptotic iteration method
A. J. Sous, Ibsal Assi, and Nasser Saad
European Physical Journal Plus, in press (2023) - Discrete Probability Models Using Taylor Series
Mohammad Masjed-Jamei, Edward Omey, Meitner Cadena and Nasser Saad
Bulletin T.CLV de l'Academie serbe des sciences et des arts − 2022 Classe des Sciences mathematiques et naturelles Sciences mathematiques, No 47 - On all Symmetric and nonsymmetric Exceptional Orthogonal X1-Polynomials Generated by a specific Sturm-Liouville Problem
Mohammad Masjed-Jamei, Zahra Moalemi and Nasser Saad
Mathematics 2022, 10(14), 2464. - Sextic anharmonic oscillators and Heun differential equations
Primitivo B. Acosta-Humánez, Mourad E. H. Ismail, Nasser Saad
Eur. Phys. J. Plus 137 (2022) 835. - On generalized Heun equation with some mathematical properties
Nasser Saad
Acta Polytechnica 62(1):165–189, 2022. - Asymptotic iteration method for solving Hahn difference equations
Lucas MacQuarrie, Nasser Saad & Md. Shafiqul Islam
Advances in Difference Equations 354 (2021). - Asymptotic iteration method
for the inverse power potentials
Richard Hall and Nasser saad
The European Physical Journal Plus 138, 688 (2021). - On
the solutions of second-order differential equations with polynomial
coefficients: Theory, Algorithm, Applications. Algorthms 13, 286 (2020).
Bryenton, K.R.; Cameron, A.R.; Kirk, K.L.A.; Saad, N.; Strongman, P.; Volodin, N.
Mathematics 8, 1323 (2020). - On the finite orthogonality of
q-Pseudo-Jacobi
polynomials
Mohammad Masjed-Jamei, Nasser saad,Wolfram Koepf, and Fatemeh Soleyman
Mathematics 8, 1323 (2020). - Response to “Comment on ‘The
asymptotic iteration method revisited’” [J. Math. Phys. 61, 064101
(2020)]
Mourad E.H. Ismail and Nasser Saad
Journal of Mathematical Physics 61, 064102 (2020). - Exactly solvable Schr�dinger
eigenvalue problems for new anharmonic potentials with variable bumps
and depths
Kyle R. Bryenton and Nasser Saad
The European Physics Journal Plus 135 (2020) 369.
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00378-9.
(Received CMS President's Prize Award (2019)) - A discrete and q-Asymptotic
Iteration Method
Mourad E.H. Ismail and Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
Journal of difference equations and applications 26 (2020) 488 - 509. - The Asymptotic Iteration
Method Revisited
Mourad E.H. Ismail and Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
Journal of Mathematical Physics 61 (2020) 033501. - Incomplete symmetric
orthogonal polynomials of finite type generated by a generalized
Sturm-Liouville Theorem
M. Masjed-Jamei, Z. Moalemi, and Nasser Saad
Journal of Mathematical Physics 61 (2020) 023501. - On the fractional order
Rodrigues formula for the
shifted Legendre-type matrix polynomials
Mohra Zayed, Mahmoud Abul-Ez, Mohamed Abdalla, and Nasser Saad
Mathematics MDPI (2020) In press. - Exact solutions of a
nonpolynomial oscillator related to isotonic oscillator
Qian Dong, Guo-Hua Sun, Nasser Saad, and Shi-Hai Dong
European Physical Journal Plus (2019) In press. - Analytical approximations to
nonlinear oscillation
of nanoelectro-mechanical resonators
G. M. Ismail, M. Abul-Ez, N. M. Farea and Nasser Saad
European Physical Journal Plus 134 (2019) 47. - Exact normalized
eigenfunctions for general
deformed Hulthen potentials
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, and Kalidas Sen
Journal of Mathematical Physics 59 (2018) 122103.
- The d-dimensional softcore
Coulomb potential and the generalized confluent Heun equation
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad and Kyle R. Bryenton
Journal of Mathematical Physics 59 (2018) 102105.
- Some Results on the First
Appell Matrix Function F1(A,B,B',C;z,w)
H. Abd-Elmageed, M. Abdalla, M. Abul-Ez, and Nasser Saad
Journal of Linear and Multilinear Algebra (2018) https://doi.org/10.1080/03081087.2018.1502254.
- A note on the Generalized and
Universal Associated Legendre Equations
Keegan L. A. Kirk, Kyle R. Bryenton and Nasser Saad
Communication in Theoretical Physics 70 (2018) 019.
- On some formulas for the Appell
function F4(a,b; c, c';w, z)
Yu. A. Brychkov and Nasser Saad
Integral Transforms and Special Functions 28 (2017) 629 - 644.
- Exact and approximate solutions
of Schroedinger's equation with hyperbolic double-well potentials
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad[ps-pdf]
European Physical Journal Plus 131 (2016) 277.
- Generalized 2D Laguerre
polynomials and their quaternionic extensions
Nasser Saad and K. Thirulogasanthar[ps-pdf]
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 308 (2016) 301 - 317.
- Solvable potentials with
exceptional orthogonal polynomials
Ash Arsenault, Sheldon Opps and Nasser Saad
Annalen der Physik 528 (2016) 321 - 334.
- On some formulas for the Appell
function F3(a, a',b, b'; c;w, z)
Yu. A. Brychkov and Nasser Saad
Integral Transforms and Special Functions 26 (2015) 910 - 923.
- 2D-Zernike polynomials and
coherent state quantization of the unit disc
K. Thirulogasanthar, Nasser Saad and G. Honnouvo [ps-pdf]
Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry 18 (2015) 13.
- Soft and hard confinement of a
two-electron quantum system
Richard Hall, Nasser Saad, and K. D. Sen [ps-pdf]
European Physics Plus 129 (2014) 274.
- Schroedinger spectrum
generated by the Cornell potential
Richard Hall and Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
Central European Journal of Physics 13 (2015) 83 - 89.
- Casimir force in warped higher
dimensional models (Survey)
T.M. Aliev, Nasser Saad and Ismail Turan
An International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics 13 (2014) 147 - 174.
- On W. Gordon's integral (1929)
and related identities
Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
Mathematica AETERNA (2014). - Spectra generated by a confined
softcore Coulomb potential
Richard Hall and Nasser Saad [ps-pdf]
Journal of Mathematical Physics (2014) - in press.
- Polynomial solutions for a
class of second-order linear differential equations
Nasser Saad, Richard Hall and Victoria Trenton [ps-pdf]
Applied Mathematics and Computation 226 (2014) 615 - 634.
- On some formulas for the Appell
function F2(a, b, b'; c,c';w, z)
Yu. A. Brychkov and Nasser Saad
Integral Transforms and Special Functions 25 (2014) 111 - 123.
- On some polynomial potentials
in d-dimensions
David Brandon, Nasser Saad and Shi-Hai Dong
J. Math. Phys. 54 (2013) 082106.
- Quantum information entropies
for an asymmetric trigonometric Rosen-Morse potential
Guo-Hua Sun, Shi-Hai Dong, and Nasser Saad
Ann. Physik, DOI:10.1002/andp.201300089, (2013). - Exact and approximate solutions
of Schroedinger's equation with decatic potentials [ps-pdf]
David Brandon and Nasser Saad
Central European Journal of Physics 11 (2013) 279-290. - Exact and approximate solutions
of Schroedinger's equation for a class of trigonometric potentials [ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
Central European Journal of Physics 11 (2013) 37-48. - On some formulas for the Appell
function F1(a; b; b'; c;w; z)
Yu. A. Brychkov and Nasser Saad
Integral Transforms and Special Functions (2012) 793-802.
Corrigendum: Integral Transforms and Special Functions (2012), DOI:10.1080/10652469.2012.668417. - Discrete Spectra for Confined
and Unconfined -a/r + br2 Potentials in d-Dimensions [ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad and K. D. Sen
J. Math. Phys. 52 (2011) 092103. - Study of the generalized
quantum isotonic nonlinear oscillator potential [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall, Hakan Ciftci and Ozlem Yesiltas
Advances in Mathematical Physics Vol. 2011 (2011), Article ID 750168, 20 pages, doi:10.1155/2011/750168. - On a modified beta function and
some applications
Ali Fatehi, Jonathan Murley and Nasser Saad
Applied Mathematics and Computation 218 (2011) 1012-1018. - Spectral characteristics for a
spherically confiined -a/r + br2 potential [ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad and K. D. Sen
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 185307. - Simple formula for computing
the Hubbell radiation rectangular source integral
Jonathan Murley and Nasser Saad
Radiation Physics and Chemistry 80 (2011) 11-13. - Generalized quantum isotonic
nonlinear oscillator in d-dimensions[ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, and Ozlem Yesilas
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010) 465304. - Physical applications of
second-order linear differential equations that admit polynomial
solutions[ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, Ebubekir Dogu
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010) 415206. - Calculation of generalized
Hubbell rectangular source integral [ps-pdf]
Jonathan Murley and Nasser Saad
Appl Radiat Isot. 69 (2010) 90-93. - Soft-core Coulomb Potential and
Heun's Differential Equation [ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad and K. D. Sen
J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010) 022107. - Energies and wave functions for
a soft-core Coulomb potential [ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, K. D. Sen, and Hakan Ciftci
Phys. Rev. A 80, 032507 (2009). - Simple Identity for Appell's
Hypergeometric Function F2
Amer Jajou and Nasser Saad
Proceedings of a Conference on Analysis and Computational Mathematics, Notre Dame University, Lebanon (18-19 Sept. 2008). Editors: Friedemann Brock and Elias G. Saleeby, Research Publishing, Singapore (2009). - Recursion Formulas for Appell's
Hypergeometric Function F2 with Some Applications to
Radiation Field Problems
Sheldon B. Opps, Nasser Saad and H. M. Srivastava
Applied Mathematics and Computation 207 (2009) 545-558. - Solvable Systems of Linear
Differential Equations [ps-pdf]
Katherine M Robertson and Nasser Saad.
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing: Volume 31, Issue 1 (2009), Page 475. - Study of a confined
Hydrogen-like atom by the Asymptotic Iteration Method [ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
Int. J. Quant. Chem. 109, 931-937 (2009). - The Casimir Force in Randall
Sundrum Models with q+1 dimensions [ps-pdf]
Mariana Frank, Nasser Saad and Ismail Turan
Phys. Rev. D 78, 055014 (2008). - Asymptotic Iteration Method for
singular potentials [ps-pdf]
Brodie Champion, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 23, (2008) 1405 - 1415. - The Klein-Gordon equation with
the Kratzer potential in d dimensions [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall, and Hakan Ciftci
Cent. Eur. J. Phys., 6 (2008) 717 - 729. - The Klein-Gordon equation with
a generalized Hulthen potential in D-dimensions [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad
Phys. Scr. 76 (2007) 623-627. - Eigenvalue bounds for
polynomial central potentials in d dimensions [ps-pdf]
Qutaibeh D. Katatbeh, Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 13431-13442. - Solutions for certain classes
of Riccati differential equation [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Hakan Ciftci
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 10903-10914. - Wave equation and dispersion
relations for a compressible rotating fluid [ps-pdf]
Jose Marin-Antuna, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
Phys. Lett. A 362 (2007) 57 - 60. - Criterion for polynomial
solutions to a class of linear differential equation of second order
[ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Hakan Ciftci
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 (2006) 13445-13454. - Sextic anharmonic oscillators
and orthogonal polynomials [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Hakan Ciftci
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 (2006) 8477-8486. - Study of a class of
non-polynomial oscillator potentials [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Hakan Ciftci
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 (2006) 7745-7756. - Iterative solutions to the
Dirac equation [ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
Phys. Rev. A, 72, 022101 (2005). - Green's function for a
Schreodinger operator and some related summation formulas [ps-pdf]
Attila B. von Keviczky, Nasser Saad and Richard L. Hall
J. Math. Phys., 46, 073512 (2005). - Perturbation theory in a
framework of iteration methods [ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
Phys. Lett. A, 340, 388-396 (2005). - Construction of exact solutions
to eigenvalue problems by the asymptotic iteration method [ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Gen. Math. 38, 1147-1155 (2005). - Study of Anharmonic Singular
Potentials [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall, and Qutaibeh D. Katatbeh
J. Math. Phys. 46, 022104-022119 (2005). - Some Reduction and
Transformation Formulas for the Appell hypergeometric function F2
Sheldon Opps, Nasser Saad, and H. M. Srivastava
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 302, 184-199 (2005).
Minor Corrections - A basis for variational
calculations in d dimensions [ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Qutaibeh D. Katatbeh, and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37, 11629-11644 (2004). - Temporally stable coherent
states for a free magnetic Schroedinger operator [ps-pdf]
K. Thirulogasanthar, Nasser Saad, and Attila B von Keviczky
J. Math. Phys., 45, 2694-2717 (2004). - Friedrichs Extensions of
Schroedinger Operators with Singular Potentials [ps-pdf]
Attila B von Keviczky, Nasser Saad, and Richard L. Hall
J. Math. Anal. Appl., 292, 274-293 (2004). - Coherent States associated with
the wavefunctions and the spectrum of the isotonic oscillator
[ps-pdf]
K. Thirulogasanthar and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37, 4567-4577 (2004). - Perturbation expansions for a
class of singular potentials [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Attila B von Keviczky
J. Math. Phys. 44, 5021-5041 (2003). - Asymptotic iteration method for
eigenvalue problems [ps-pdf]
Hakan Ciftci, Richard L. Hall, and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A 36, 11807-11816 (2003) . - Integrals containing confluent
hypergeometric functions with applications to perturbed singular
potentials [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Attila B von Keviczky
J. Phys. A.: Gen. Math. 36, 7771-7788 (2003) - Energy bounds for a class of
singular potentials and some related series [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad, Richard L. Hall and Attila B von Keviczky,
J. Phys. A.: Gen. Math. 36, 487-498 (2003) - Closed-form sums for some
perturbation series involving hypergeometric functions [ps-pdf]
Nasser Saad and Richard L. Hall
J. Phys. A.: Gen. Math. 35, 4105-4123 (2002) - Spiked harmonic oscillators
[ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, and Attila B von Keviczky
J. Math. Phys. 43, 94-112 (2002). - Closed-form sums for some
perturbation series involving associated Laguerre polynomials
[ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, and Attila B von Keviczky
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, 11287-11300 (2001). - Generalized spiked harmonic
oscillator [ps-pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, and Attila B von Keviczky
J.Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, 1169-1179 (2001). - Perturbation expansions for the
spiked harmonic oscillator and related series involving the gamma
function [ps
pdf]
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J.Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33, 5531-5537 (2000). - Variational analysis for a
generalized spiked harmonic oscillator [ps pdf]
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33, 569-578 (2000). - Eigenvalue bounds for a class of
singular potentials in N-dimensions [pdf]
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 32, 133-138 (1999). - Matrix elements for a
generalized spiked harmonic oscillator [pdf]
Richard L. Hall, Nasser Saad, and Attila B. von Keviczky
J. Math. Phys. 39, 6345-6352 (1998) - Smooth transformations of
Kratzer's potential in N dimensions
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Chem. Phys. 109, 2983-2986 (1998). - Eigenvalue bounds for a class of
singular potentials
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31, 963-967 (1998). - Eigenvalue comparisons for
quantum systems in a box
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
Phys. Lett. A 237, 107-112 (1998) - Bounds on Schr�dinger
eigenvalues for polynomial potentials in N dimensions
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Math. Phys. 38, 4909-4913 (1997) - Eigenvalue bounds for
transformations of solvable potentials,
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 29, 2127-2137 (1996). - The quantum-mechanical box effect
[pdf]
Richard L. Hall and Nasser Saad
J. Phys. A. Math. Gen. 29, 2127-2137 (1996). - Energy bounds for the spiked
harmonic oscillator
Richard L. Hall and Nassser Saad
Can. J. Phys. 73 , 493-496 (1995).
Attila Bela von Keviczky (1941 - 2008) Eulogy
Syed Twareque Ali (1942 - 2016) OBITUARY