Professional Memberships: American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
E-mail: ozkan.ozer@wku.edu, ahmetozkan.ozer@fulbrightmail.orgTel: 985-30-OZKANEmbedded Files
2021-present: Tenured Associate Professor of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, KY, USA
2016-2021: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, KY, USA
2013-2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
2011-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
2006-2011: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
2006: M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
2004: M.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
2001: B.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
June 2026-present: Elected Member, Board of Directors, Kentucky Chapter of the Fulbright Association
2024-2025: Fulbright U.S. Scholar (Research), France; Visiting Professor, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France
Nov 2023 (Sabbatical Leave): Visiting Professor, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France
Jun-Dec 2023 (Sabbatical Leave): Visiting Professor, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Research Interests
My research group, together with collaborators worldwide, develops mathematical and computational methods for the modeling, analysis, control, and approximation of complex dynamical systems. Our work focuses on partial differential equations, hybrid PDE-ODE systems, boundary and interface control, smart and flexible structures, and structure-preserving numerical methods, with applications to MEMS, robotics, vibration control, energy harvesting, and smart-material systems.Research Interests
Upcoming Talks at the Conferences & Workshops
Upcoming Talks at the Conferences & Workshops
2026 IEEE American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Friday, July 7-9, 2027.
Title: TBA
65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2026
Title: TBA
Interdisciplinary Congress on Dynamics, Londrina, Brazil, June 8-11, 2026
Title: Control Design, Stability, and Structure-Preserving Approximation of a SCOLE-Type Two-Beam System with Interior Mass and Rotational Inertia
2026 IEEE American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26-29, 2026.
Local Arrangements Chair
Title: Unconditional Exponential Stability via Discontinuous Interface Control Design in Wave Transmission Networks with Inertial Boundary
2026 Student Scholar Showcase - April 11, 2026
Talk 1 (Kenedi Ashburn): Lyapunov-Based Exponential Stability Analysis of NASA’s SCOLE Model and a SCOLE-inspired Beam-Mass-Beam Configuration with Rotational Inertia
Talk 2 (Zoe Brown): Exponential Stabilization of Serially Connected Wave Equations: Continuous vs. Discontinuous Interface Control
45th Annual WKU Mathematics Symposium, November 14-15, 2025
Talk 1 (Kenedi Ashburn): Lyapunov-Based Exponential Stability Analysis of NASA’s SCOLE Model and a SCOLE-inspired Beam-Mass-Beam Configuration with Rotational Inertia
Talk 2 (Zoe Brown): Exponential Stabilization of Serially Connected Wave Equations: Continuous vs. Discontinuous Interface Control
Recent Talks at the Conferences & Workshops
Recent Talks at the Conferences & Workshops
2025 IEEE American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, July 8-10, 2025.
Talk 1: Novel Stability Results for Interconnected Strings with a Dynamic Mass
Talk 2 (A.K. Aydin): A New Semi-Discretization of the Fully Clamped Euler-Bernoulli Beam Preserving Boundary Observability Uniformly
2025 European Control Conference (ECC), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 24-27, 2025.
Co-Chair of the Session: Estimation and Control of PDE Systems III
Talk: Hybrid Power Transmission Line Model: Exact Observability Via Sensors at Discontinuous Joints with Uniformly Observable Approximations
2024 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milano, Italy, December 16-19, 2024.
Talk 1: Boundary Observer Design and Error Tracking for a Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beam with a Dynamic Tip Load (Presenter: myself)
Talk 2: A Robust Finite Difference Model Reduction for the Uniform Spectral Observability of a Fully-Clamped Three-Layer Mead-Marcus-type Smart Laminate (Presenter: myself)
Multidisciplinary Days on Piezoelectricity, Valenciennes, France, October 3-4, 2024.
(Invited) Title: Modeling and Numerical Challenges in Controlling Magnetizable Piezoelectric Systems.
2024 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA, October 5-6, 2024
(Invited) Title: Stability Analysis of Fully-Elastic/Piezoelectric Three-Layer Laminates: The Role of Active Boundary and Passive Viscous and Structural Damping Under Various Boundary Conditions.
2024 IEEE American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 8-12, 2024.
Chair of the session "Observers for Linear Systems"
Talk 1: Boundary Output Feedback Stabilization for a Novel Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beam Model by Uthman Rasaq
Late Breaking Poster 1: Uniform Exponential Stability in Finite-Difference Model Reduction for Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beams with Non-Collocated Observers by J. Walterman, U. Rasaq, I. Khalilullah
Talk 2: The Exponential Stabilization of a Heat and Piezoelectric Beam Interaction with Static or Hybrid Feedback Controllers by Ibrahim Khalilullah
2024 Spring Central Sectional Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Robust Model Reductions for the Boundary Feedback Stabilization of Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beam Equations, April 15, 2024,
Presenter: Ahmet K Aydin*
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, March 23-24, 2024.
Session: "Control, Inverse Problems and Long Time Dynamics of Evolution Systems”
Talk 1 (Invited): Uniform Boundary Observability in Single and Multi-layer Beams: A Progressive Approach with Novel Finite Difference Semi-discretization by Ahmet Ozkan Ozer
Session: Contributed Paper Session
Talk 2: Investigation of Uniform Observability for a Novel Finite Difference Semi-discretization of a clamped Euler-Bernoulli Beam by Zulfiqur Haider
Talk 3: Exponential Stability of a Novel Finite-Difference Model Reduction For Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beams With Non-Collocated Observers by Uthman Rasaq
Talk 4: Exponential Stability in Finite Difference Model Reduction For Heat and Piezoelectric Beam Interactions with Static and Dynamic Boundary Feedback Controllers by Ibrahim Khalilullah
The 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, Dec. 13-15, 2023
Title: "A Novel Finite Difference-based Model Reduction and a Sensor Design for a Multilayer Smart Beam with Arbitrary Number of Layers" by Ahmet Kaan Aydin, Jacob Walterman, Ahmet Ozkan Ozer
The 43rd Math Symposium, WKU, Bowling Green, KY, November 17-18, 2023.
Talk 1: Investigation of Uniform Observability for a Novel Finite Difference Semi-discretization of a clamped Euler-Bernoulli Beam, by Zulfiqur Haider
Talk 2: Boundary Output Feedback Stabilization for a Novel Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beam Model by Uthman Rasaq
Talk 3: The Exponential Stabilization of a Heat and Piezoelectric Beam Interaction with Static or Hybrid Feedback Controllers by Ibrahim Khalilullah
(Invited) Control of PDEs in Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France, November 2023.
Title: "Recent Progresses and Open Problems in Controlling Magnetizable Piezoelectric Systems"
The 8th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section, October 7-8, 2023 | Lincoln, Nebraska
Talk 1: Boundary Output Feedback Stabilization for a Novel Magnetizable Piezoelectric Beam Model by Uthman Rasaq
Talk 2: The Exponential Stabilization of a Heat and Piezoelectric Beam Interaction with Static or Hybrid Feedback Controllers by Ibrahim Khalilullah
Talk 3: "Optimal Decay Rate and Thorough Numerical Analyses for the Fully Magnetic Piezoelectric Smart Beams" by Ahmet Kaan Aydin
Talk 4: "Robust Model Reductions for Strongly-Coupled PDEs of Piezoelectric Multi-layer Beams" by Ahmet Ozkan Ozer
FAU DCN-AvH Mini-workshop: Analysis, Numerics and Control
Title: Introducing PDE models of certain smart-material systems involving piezoelectric materials and diving into related controllability issues
(Invited) SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, July 24-26, Philadelphia, PA USA.
(Invited) AIMS The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, May 31 - June 4, 2023, Wilmington, NC USA.
(Invited) Colloquium Talk, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April 2023.
AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston , MA, January 4-7, 2023.
The 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancún, Mexico, Dec. 6-9, 2022.
Ahmet Kaan Aydin and I are presenting at CDC.
Watch the video of the presentation here.
WKU Math Symposium, November 18-19, 2022.
Jacob Walterman has two presentations.
Rafi Emran has a presentation.
Matthew Poynter has a presentation.
(Invited) AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, October 15-16, 2022
WebAssign User Group Summit by Cengage, New Orleans, LA, July 11-13, 2022
Title: Creating a Fully Online On-Demand Course Passing all the Quality Matters Standards in Calculus
3rd Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific Northwest Section, Vancouver, WA, May 20-22, 2022.
Ahmet Kaan Aydin: Avoiding Sensor Data Filtering by a Novel Model Reduction for the PDE System of a Multi-Layer Sandwich Beam
Myself: Robust-Filtering of Sensor Data for a Reduced Model of Multi-Layer Beams
AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, Deferred to April 6-9 (virtual), 2022.
Judge/Evaluator at the Virtual Student Poster Session
Chair and Speaker at the AMS Special Session:
Title: Transforming College-level Calculus Courses with Cutting-edge Video recording and Editing technologies – A Case Study
(Ahmet Kaan Aydin) AMS Special Session on Asymptotic Behavior of Evolution Equations
Title: Robust-filtering of sensor data for the approximation of the multi-layer Mead-Marcus beam equation
AMS Special Session on Analysis of and Recent Advances in Difference, Differential and Dynamic Equations with Applications, II
Title: Robust filtering of finite difference approximations for piezoelectric beam equations
Student Research Conference, WKU, March 25th, 2022
Ahmet Kaan Aydin (Msc) (two talks)
Logan Stewart & Trey Crouch (Best presenters)
Matthew Poynter (Best poster presenter)
Alex Driehaus
Rafi Emran (MSc)
41st Annual Math Symposium, WKU, February 25th, 2022
Ahmet Kaan Aydin (MSc) (two talks)
Logan Stewart & Trey Crouch
Matthew Poynter (Best Presenter Award)
Alex Driehaus
Past conferences & workshops
Past conferences & workshops
The 2021Kentucky Academy of Science Meeting, November 5-6, 2021 (virtual)
Presenter: Ahmet Kaan Aydin
Title: Robust Filtering of the Approximations for the Observability of Vibrations on a Three-Layer Beam
Presenter: Matthew Poynter, Logan Stewart (Best Presenter Award)
Title: Wolfram Demonstration Projects to Simulate the Control of Vibrations on a String
The 44th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, September 18-19, 2021, Auburn University
Session: Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Applications
ICTCM 2021 Reimagined by Pearson June 11, 2021 (joint work with Dr. N. Gerstenschlager and Dr. L. Zheng).
"Transforming in Calculus courses with cutting-edge Video Recording and Editing Technologies – A Case Study"
Applied Math Colloquium Talk, University of Maryland-Baltimore, April 2, 2021 (virtual)
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering , March 1-5, 2021 (virtual)
Session on Multiscale/Multiphysics/Multiphenomenon Problems
The 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 6-9, 2021 (virtual)
Webinar, Seminario Control en Tiempos de Crisis 2020, December 1, 2020 (virtual)
SIAM Student Chapter & Graduate Seminar Talk, October 28, 2020 (virtual)AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, October 10-11, 2020
Posters-at-the-Capitol, Frankfort, KY, March 2020 (with Emma Moore and Donald J. Price).
KY-MAA meeting, Wilmore, KY, March 2020 (Donald J. Price)
WKU Reach Conference, March 2020 (Donald J. Price)
WKU Reach Conference, March 2020 (Ryan St. Clair,)
The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, June 2020
2020 Joint Mathematics Meeting, Denver, CO, January 2020
58TH IEEE CDC 2019 - CONFERENCE ON DECISION CONTROL, Nice, France, December 2019
Colloquium talk, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, June 12th, 2019
How to control smart structures by accurate modeling and partial differential equations
Colloquium talk, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, June 11th, 2019
How to control smart structures by accurate modeling and partial differential equations
KYMAA Annual meeting, Danville, KY, March 29-30.
Presenter of the talk "Preliminary uniform boundary observability results of semi-discrete finite difference approximations for a Rayleigh beam equation with only one boundary observation"
E. Moore, Creating a Computational Tool to Simulate Vibration Control for Piezoelectric Devices.
Poster presentation, WKU REACH week, March 23, 2019
E. Moore, A.O. Ozer, Creating a Computational Tool to Simulate Vibration Control for Piezoelectric Devices.
Judge, WKU Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY, March 23, 2019.
E. Moore, A.O. Ozer, Creating a Computational Tool to Simulate Vibration Control for Piezoelectric Devices.
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Auburn, AL, March 15-17, 2019
Presenter of the talk: A new formulation for the current or charge-controlled piezoelectric laminates and related stabilization results
SPIE Smart Structures and Materials, Denver, CO, March 3-7, 2019
Chair of the session (10:30 AM - 11:50 AM): Modeling and Analysis of Smart Structures
Chair of the session (3:30 PM - 5:50 PM): Sensing, Actuation, and Diagnostics
Presenter of the talk: An alternate numerical treatment for nonlinear PDE models of piezoelectric laminates
Posters at the Capitol, Frankfurt, KY, February 21, 2019
E. Moore, Creating a Computational Tool to Simulate Vibration Control for Piezoelectric Devices.
6th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Valparaiso, Chile (May 1-4, 2018)
Title: Exponential stabilization of a smart piezoelectric composite beam with only one boundary controller
SS18, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials, Denver, CO (March 4-8, 2018)
Co-chair of the session "Piezoelectric Materials and Systems II"
Title: "Modeling and stabilization of a nonlinear piezoelectric laminate"
KYMAA Annual Meeting, Bowling Green, KY (April 6-7,2018)
Title: Exponential stabilization results for cantilevered smart piezoelectric laminates by using the semigroup theory
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (April 14-15, 2018)
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