GRANTS

MARIE CURIE INTERNATIONAL OUTGOING FELLOWSHIP  1 October 2009 – 30 September 2011

(First Mathematician from Turkey who received this fellowship)

TUBITAK-2219 Research Grant August 2009--February 2010

TUBITAK-1001 Research Grant forTopology of contact 3-manifolds” , 2007--2011 

National Science Foundation--Focused Research Group Grant,  August 2005---May 2006

AWARDS

Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda Science Award, 2008

ODTU M. Parlar Foundation Research Encouragement Award, 2007 

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 Research Encouragement Award,  2006

(TUBITAK: Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, TWAS:Third World Academy of Sciences)                                                              

Click here to see a picture from the award ceremony  CNNTURK 

Werner-von-Siemens Excellence Award, 2005

Outstanding Young Scientist Award by  the Turkish Academy of Sciences,  2003                                                                                           

TUBA-GEBIP (June 2003--June2006)

 

INVITED TALKS


 

Bilkent University, April 2012

 

Brussels-Cologne seminar, Cologne, January 2012

 

Yeditepe University, October 2011

 

Gauge Theory Workshop, Aarhus University, August 2011

 

Bogazici University, April 2011

 

Middle East Technical University, March 2011

 

Izmir Algebraic Geometric Topology Days II, January 2011, 

 

University of California, Berkeley, April 2010

 

University of California, Davis, February 2010

 

Rice University, Texas, November 2009

 

Izmir Algebraic Geometric Topology Days, January 2009, 

 

Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, September  2008

 

Middle East Technical University, April 2008

 

Georgia Topology  Conference,  University of Georgia,  May 2007

 

Atilim University, December 2006

 

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