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ACADEMIC Experience

 

2007–present       Sabancı University                                        Istanbul, Turkey

Işık İnselbağ Professor

§         College of Management.

 

2000–2007           Koç University                                            Istanbul, Turkey

Dean, Professor of Mathematics and Finance

§         Dean, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, 2002-2007.

§         Department of Mathematics.

 

1998–2000          Princeton University                                    Princeton, NJ

Paul M. Whythes `55 Professor of Finance and Engineering

§         Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

§         Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

§         Bendheim Center for Finance.

 

1986–1998          Carnegie Mellon University                         Pittsburgh, PA

Professor of Mathematics

§         Department of Mathematical Sciences, Professor, 1992.

§         Department of Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor, 1990.

§         Department of Mathematical Sciences, Assistant Professor, 1986.

1985–1986          Institute for Math. and App.                  Minneapolis, MN

Research Associate

Education

 

1981–1985        Brown University                                      Providence, RI

n     Ph.D.,  Applied Mathematics, 1986.

n     M.Sc.,  Applied Mathemathics, 1983.

 

 

1977–1981        Bogazici University                                  Istanbul, Turkey

n     B.Sc.,  Electrical Engineering.

n     B.Sc.,  Mathemathics.

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

 

§        ERC Advanced Grant, 2008-2013.

§        Işık İnselbağ Professor at Sabancı, 2007-

§        Thompson ISI Highly cited researcher, 2004.

§         TUBITAK-TWAS Science Award, 2002.

§         Member Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2001.

§         Paul M. Whythes ’55 Professor or Finance and Engineering in Princeton, 1998-2000.

VISITING POSITIONS

 

 

§      June-July 2008; Visiting Professor of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.

§      June-July 1998; Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Paris 6, Paris.

§     September 1997-1998: Professor of Mathematics, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

§    September 1997-1998: Research Associate, Feza Gursey Institute for Basic Sciences, Istanbul.

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

           

§    September 2008, Plenary Talk, Ulusal Matematik Sempozyumu, Koç University, Turkey

§    July 2008, Invited Talk, 5th European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam, NL.

§    June 2007, Invited Talk, Giordana Indham, Pisa Italy.

§    August 2006, Plenary Speaker, Bachelier Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.

§    July 2006, Plenary Speaker, SIAM Meeting on Financial Engineering, Topical Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

§    March 2004, Main Speaker, School on Mathematical Finance, Oxford, UK.

§    September 2003, Main Speaker, Workshop on Concentration phenomenon in the calculus of variations, Rome, Italy.

§    April 2003, Cattedra Gelileiana, Schuola Normale, Pisa, Italy.

§    September 2000, Pleanary talk, Ulusal Matematik Sempozyumu, Istanbul.

§    July 1-4, 2000, CIR-CIME Summer Course on Evolving Interfaces,  Madeira, Portugal. 

§    January 11, 1999, Annual AMS Meeting, Short course on control

§    June 10, 1997, Plenary Talk, Meeting on Free Boundaries, Crete, Greece.

§    February 27, 1997, Fields Institute Financial Mathematics Seminar, Toronto.

§    January 20-24, 1997, Main Speaker, Workshop on ``Recent Advances in Continuum Mechanics", Trento, Italy,

§    November 1, 1996, Clifford Lectures, Georgia Tech., Atlanta.

§    August 7-18, 1995, Main Speaker, CRM Summer School on Boundaries, Interfaces and Transitions, Banff, Canada.

§    June 10-18, 1995, Main Speaker, CIME Summer School on Viscosity Solutions, Italy.

§    April 27, 1995, Plenary Lecture, Annual SIAM Meeting on Control, St.Louis, MS.

§    July 4-7, 1994, Main Speaker, Workshop on ``Continuum Mechanics and Nonlinear Analysis",  Roma, Italy.

§    January 1993, Short Course on Control, Universitadad Autonoma Metropolitana and Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico.

§    July 27- August 7 1992, Main Speaker, CRM Summer School, Montreal, Canada.

§    January 1991, Lecture Series, Techion, Haifa, Israel.

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

           

Current interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; asymptotic analysis of Ginzburg-Landau type systems, viscosity solutions, and mathematical finance.

 

Currently I was involved in three European Networks; one on partial differential equations HYKE, one on front propagation FRONTS, and the other on mathematical finance, AMaMeF.  In the first two, I was part of the team from Crete.  In August 2008, I received an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Research Grant for an amount of 880,560 Euros.  This was the only successful application from Turkey

 

RESEARCH SUPPORT AND GRANTS

           

Throughout my tenure in the United States I had continuous support from the National Science Foundation and also from the Air Force Office of Research for six years.  I was the Associate Director for a large grant (nearly 3 million dollars) during 1995-1998 funded by the Army Research Office and the NSF.  This grant was the core of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carngei Mellon.  I was one of the two Co-PI’s for the continuation grant.  Following is the list of grants received or membership to research networks since 1998.

 

·               1998-2001: Research and Scientific Training in Applied Mathematics, (one of the two Co-PI’s) supported by NSF for an amount of 835,508$.

·               1998-2001: Nonlinear PDE’s and their applications (PI), supported by NSF for an amount of 156,000$.

·               2002, European Network (HPRN-CT-2002-00282) HYKE (member of the team from Crete).

·               2002, European Network (HPRN-CT-2002-00274) Fronts-Singularities (member of the team from Crete).

·               2005-2010: European Research Network AMaMeF (Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance (Member of the Steering Committee), supported by ESF for an amount of 722,000 Euro.

·               2006-2009: Nonlinear PDEs in Phase Transitions, (one of the two Co-PIs), supported by TÜBİTAK for an amount of153,900 YTL (approximately 90,000 Euro).

·               2008-2011: Mathematical Collaboration Network, (Co-PI), supported by TÜBİTAK for an amount of 1,150,980 YTL (approximately 750,000 Euro).

·               2008-2013: FiRM-Mathematical Methods for Financial Risk Management, European research Council Advanced Grant (PI), supported by ERC for an amount of 880,560 Euro.

 

 

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