Seda Albayrak

About me: I am a female mathematician who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the Simon Fraser University working with Marni Mishna. I recently completed my PhD at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Jason Bell. 

You can find a copy of my CV here. 

Research Interests: Number theory, algebra and their interactions with automata theory. Combinatorics on words, Algebraic combinatorics and algebraic dynamics.

Publications and Preprints:

1. Albayrak, Seda; Bell, Jason. A Refinement of Christol’s Theorem for algebraic power series, Math. Z. 300 (2022), 2265-2288. DOI:10.1007/s00209-021-02868-7

2. Albayrak, Seda; Bell, Jason. Quantitative Estimates for the size of an intersection of sparse automatic sets. Theoret. Comput. Sci. 977 (2023), 114144. DOI:10.1016/j.tcs.2023.114144

3. Albayrak, Seda; Ghosh, Samprit; Knapp, Greg; Nguyen, Khoa). On Certain Polytopes Associated to Products of Algebraic Integer Conjugates. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 153(5) (2025), 1917-1932. DOI:10.1090/proc/17146

4. Albayrak, Seda. Algebraicity of multivariate generalized Laurent Series. In Preparation for submission.

5. Albayrak, Seda. (2025) A Characterization of Algebraic Multivariate Power Series with Sparse Support. In: Gamard, G., Leroy, J. (eds) Combinatorics on Words. WORDS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15729. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-97548-6_2

PhD Thesis: Sparse Automatic Sets (External Examiner: Michel Rigo)

Invited* and Contributed talks:

1. Scheduled: CANT2025, Marseille, France.

2. WORDS2025 (Combinatorics on words), Nancy, France, July 2025.

3. *DART XIII, Beijing, China, May 2025.

4. *Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (SFU NT-AG), SFU, February 2025.

5. *UBC Number Theory Seminar, UBC, December 2024.

6. Canadian Number Theory Association XVI (CNTA XVI), Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 2024.

7. *2023 CMS Winter Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 2023.

8. *One World Combinatorics on Words (Online), November 2023. 

9. *Lethbridge Number theory and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Lethbridge, Canada, September 2023.

10. *Alberta Number Theory Days XIV, Banff, AB, Canada, April 2023. 

11. *AMS-EMS-SMF Joint International Meeting, Grenoble, France, July 2022. 

12. Journées Arithmétiques, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2019. 

13. *AdIMOM Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, April 2019. 

Teaching (current): -

Teaching (past): At Simon Fraser University: Spring 2024 - MATH 152 - Calculus II

At the University of Calgary:

Fall 2024 - MATH 265 - University Calculus I      

Spring 2024 - MATH 311 - Linear Methods II

Fall 2023 - MATH 265 - University Calculus I

Spring 2023 - MATH 311 - Linear Methods II

I taught each of the following courses multiple times at the University of Waterloo between 2020-2023.

1. MATH 137 - Calculus 1 for Honours Math (online and in-person)

2. MATH 118 - Calculus 1 for Engineering (online)

3. MATH 138 - Calculus 2 for Honours Math (online)

4. MATH 235 - Linear Algebra 2 (online and in-person)

Organizing: 

Calgary Algebra and Number Theory Seminars (ANTS), October 2024 -- December 2024.

Emerging Frontiers in Number Theory: Insights from Early-Career Researchers Session, CMS Winter Meeting (2024)

Math writing café (Past and current)

Alberta Number Theory Days XV (March 22-24, 2024)

Slides for some talks: 

1. AMS-EMS-SMF Conference, Grenoble, France (07/2022)

2. Alberta Number Theory Days XIV, Banff (04/2023)

Extracurricular: Not as passionate as I am about math, but I really like watching movies and talking about them afterwards. See my movie blog here: What I think of a movie, where I write about what I think of a movie I saw. I am also a member of two separate book clubs which I actively participate in on a regular basis (see here for my booklists).