Overview

Some ground rules for my teaching perspective: setting a realistic game plan with achievable goals, minding the documentation and presentation, giving instructive and motivating homework, making the material accessible (providing key ideas, slogans, practical illustrations, and examples as building blocks), teasing the audience about upcoming and neighboring topics, and maintaining balance and coherence between lectures and exams. 

List of teaching duties

Assis. Prof., METU, Department of Mathematics, Fall 2025-present

• Freshman Calculus courses: MATH 119- Calculus I (Fall 2025)

Vis. Assis. Prof., Bilkent University, Department of Mathematics, 2023-2025

• Senior Project courses: MATH491-492

• Freshman Calculus courses: MATH 102- Calculus II (Fall 2024, Spring -Summer 2025), MATH 101- Calculus I (Spring 2024),
  MATH 105 - Introduction to Calculus I (Fall 2023)

Teaching Assistant, University of Zurich, Institute of Mathematics, Fall 2022

• MAT115 - Foundations of Mathematics

Instructor, Middle East Technical University, Dept. of Mathematics, Summer 2021

• Math 120 - Freshman Calculus II

Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Dept. of Mathematics, 2014-2021

Courses assisted and/or coordinated:

• Junior courses: Math371 Differential Geometry, Math349 An Intro. to Mathematical Analy,  Math353 Complex Calculus;

• Sophomore Calculus courses: Math251 Advanced Calculus-I, Math252 Advanced Calculus-II;

• Freshman Calculus courses: Math119 Calculus I, Math120 Calculus II

Online Teaching Material

Some playlists from the online semesters at METU:

1. MATH120 Calculus of Functions of Several Variables - Recitations (2020)

2. MATH251 Advanced Calculus - I  Recitations (Fall 2020)

3. Some supplementary videos for MATH 119 (Calculus with analytic geometry)

Supervision

Undergrads supervised

• A. Eren Uyanık (Bilkent University), Undergraduate senior project  Spring 2025: Introduction to bicategories and extended TFTs. (Project report - Slides)

• A. Eren Uyanık (Bilkent University), Undergraduate senior project Fall 2024: 2-Dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories (Project report)

• Umut Arı (Middle East Technical University), DRP Summer Project 2023: Gravity as a Geometry

• Yusuf Ghelem (Middle East Technical University; Currently @ University of Melbourne ), DRP Summer Project 2021: Symplectic Geometry and Classical Mechanics.

• Dilara Kosva (Boğaziçi University; Currently @ Stony Brook University ), DRP Summer Project 2021: Category Theoretical Formulation of TQFTs.