AWARDS and HONORS
ODTU M. Parlar Foundation Junior Research
Award, 2007
TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research
Council of Turkey) grant (YTL 88,135)
for “ Topology of contact 3-manifolds” , 2007--2010
Sedat Simavi Science Award 2006 (HURRIYET MILLIYET)
Click here to see a picture from the award
ceremony.
Read the interview in
the daily newspaper MILLIYET.
TUBITAK--TWAS (Third World Academy of
Sciences) Science Award for Young
Scientists in Developing Countries, 2006
(Turkish Daily News CNNTURK ) Click here to see a picture
from the award ceremony.
National Science
Foundation--Focused Research Group Grant,
August 2005---May 2006
Werner-von-Siemens Excellence Award (Koc
University, 2005)
Outstanding
Young Scientist Award and Grant by the Turkish Academy of Sciences,
June 2003--June2006
UC Regents' Dissertation Fellowship,
Winter 1999
Research Assistantship, UCI, Summer and
Fall 1998
Teaching Assistantship, UCI, Sept. 1994 -
June 1998
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UCI,
1996-97
NATO Grant, Scientific and Technical
Research Council of Turkey, 1994-1995
Graduated from ODTU in three years
with a GPA of 3.97/4.00,
ranking second among all graduating students in 1993.
Koc Vakfi and TUBITAK Scholarship
1990-93.
Ranked 16th nationwide in the University
Placement Exam in 1990.
INVITED
TALKS
Middle
East Technical University, April 2008 (Click
here for my presentation)
Georgia Topology Conference, University of Georgia, May 2007
Atilim
University, December 2006 (Click here for my
presentation)
13th
Gokova Geometry / Topology
conference, Turkey, May
2006
Department
of Mathematics, University of Georgia, December 2005
Alfred
Renyi Institute of Mathematics, June 2004
Korea
Institute for Advanced Study, July 2003
Feza
Gursey Institute, February 2003
Department
of Mathematics, Middle East Technical University,
2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Department
of Mathematics, Princeton University, April
2002
Department
of Mathematics, Kansas State University, November 2001
8th
Gokova Geometry / Topology
conference, Turkey, May
2001
Department
of Mathematics, Cornell University,
April 2001
Symplectic Geometry and
Applications to Physics, UC
Irvine, April 2001
7th
Gokova Geometry / Topology
Conference, Turkey, May
2000
Feza
Gursey Institute, Turkey, May 2000
Georgia
Topology Conference, University of Georgia, May 1999
Department
of Mathematics, Duke University , January 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Department of
Mathematics, Koc University , 2002 - present
Instructor, Department of
Mathematics, Michigan State University , 1999 - 2002
Instructor, Department of
Mathematics, UC Irvine, Summer 1997
Instructor, Department of
Mathematics, UC Irvine, Summer 1996
Teaching Assistant, Department of
Mathematics, UC Irvine, Sept. 1994 - June 1998
