Kadri İlker Berktav

About me

Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University, Dept. of Mathematics (Fall 2025-present)

• Working on higher structures in geometry and physics.

• Current research: Derived symplectic geometry and neighboring subjects.

Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor at Bilkent University; Postdoc at University of Zurich, Middle East Technical University, and Istanbul Technical University.  

Ph.D. in Mathematics at METU (2021);  B.S. in Mathematics with Minor in Physics at METU. 
[See also: Curriculum Vitae] 

Publications and preprints   [See also:  Research Tab  |  ResearchGate]

• Introduction to derived contact geometry (2025), submitted contribution to the Springer-INdAM volume "Poisson Geometry and Mathematical Physics".

• Legendrian structures in derived geometry (2025). arXiv:2406.17416.

• Stacks in Einstein Gravity, Turk J. of Math. (2024) Vol. 48: No. 4, Article 5.

• On shifted contact derived Artin stacks (2024). arXiv:2401.03334 (final version to appear in Higher Structures).

• Shifted contact structures and their local theory, Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse, Math., Serie 6, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2024), pp. 1019-1057.  arXiv:2209.09686,  Addendum (2025).

• Derived Geometric Formulations in Physics, Int. J. Geom. Methods in Mod. Phys. Vol. 19, No. 10 (2022).  arXiv:1904.13331. 

• Euclidean Polynomials for Certain Arithmetic Progressions and the Multiplicative Group of F_p^2 (with F. Özbudak), Quaest. Math. (2022) 1-10.

• Moduli theory, stacks, and 2-Yoneda’s Lemma (2020),  arXiv:2202.06628.

• Introduction to Geometric Quantization and Witten’s Quantum Invariant (2019). arXiv:1902.10813 (in Proceedings of the Workshop on Mathematical Topics in Quantization, Galatasaray University, 2018).