TETolga Etgü
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
College of Sciences
Koç University
Rumelifeneri Yolu
Sarıyer, İstanbul
34450 TURKEY
Office : SCI 267
Phone: +90 (212) 338-1787
Fax: +90 (212) 338-1559
Email: tetgu@ku.edu.tr
 

Teaching:

Spring 2009:     Math 302 - Real Analysis II

Fall 2008:         Math 102 - Calculus                                    Math 301 - Real Analysis I 

Spring 2008:     Math 302 - Real Analysis II                     Math 402 - Topology 

Fall 2007:         Math 204 - Differential Equations         Math 301 - Real Analysis I  

CV   Curriculum Vitae  (January 2009)
Research:

My main research interests are 4-dimensional manifolds, symplectic and contact topology.
Here are my preprints, papers, dissertation and thesis.

PDF file  Relative Giroux correspondence (with Burak Ozbagci).
PDF file  Partial open book decompositions and the contact class in sutured Floer homology (with Burak Ozbagci),
          Turkish Journal of Mathematics (to appear).
PDF file  On the contact Ozsvath-Szabo invariant (with Burak Ozbagci),
            Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica (to appear).
PDF file  Elliptic open books on torus bundles over the circle,
          Geometriae Dedicata 132 (2008), 53-63.
PDF file  Explicit horizontal open books on some plumbings (with Burak Ozbagci),
            International Journal of Mathematics 17 (2006), 1013-1031.
PDF file  Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in 4-manifolds,
             Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 38 (2008), 1975-1989.
PDF file  A note on fundamental groups of symplectic torus complements in four-manifolds (with B. Doug Park),
           Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 17 (2008), 1063-1075.
 PDF file  Lagrangian tori in homotopy elliptic surfaces (with David McKinnon and B. Doug Park),
              Transactions of the American Mathematical Society  357 (2005), 3757-3774.
 PDF file  Symplectic tori in rational elliptic surfaces (with B. Doug Park).  
              Mathematische Annalen 334 (2006), 679-691.
 PDF file   Homologous non-isotopic symplectic tori in homotopy rational elliptic surfaces (with B. Doug Park),
             Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society  140 (2006), 71-78.
PDF file  Homologous non-isotopic symplectic tori in a K3-surface (with B. Doug Park),
              Communications in Contemporary Mathematics  7 (2005), 325-340.
 PDF file  Non-isotopic symplectic tori in the same homology class (with B. Doug Park),
              Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 356 (2004), 3739-3750.
 PDF file  A note on the geometry of M3 and symplectic structures on S1 x M3,
            Acta Mathematica Hungarica  114 (2007), 195-199.
 PDF file   Lefschetz fibrations, complex structures and Seifert fibrations on S1 x M3,
               Algebraic and Geometric Topology 1 (2001), 469-489.
 PDF file  Symplectic structures on product 4-manifolds,
        Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 2002. (advisor: Robion C. Kirby)
PDF file  Seiberg-Witten invariants of Kähler surfaces,
        M.Sc. thesis, Middle East Technical University, 1997. (advisor: Turgut Önder)


Links:

Gökova Geometry-Topology Conferences

KU Math Colloquium

KU Geometry-Topology Seminars

Workshop on Contact Topology


Last Modified: January 28, 2009.