Work Experience

• Teaching Assistant at University of California, Santa Cruz, 2024 - Present

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at West Virginia University, 2021 - 2024

• Teaching Assistant at Bilkent University, 2017 - 2020

• Computer Lab. Assistant at Middle East Technical University, 2016 - 2017

Publication(s)

• Mathematics graduate teaching assistants grading of students' solutions for optimization problems in Calculus. 

  [in preparation] 

joint work with D. Miller, J. Cook, T. McEldowney, W. Robertson, K. Roxby, E. Townsend.

• Constructions and simplicity of the Mathieu groups. [pdf]

Bilkent University Library, M.Sc. Thesis, 2020

Abstract: Of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, 5 were discovered by E. Mathieu in 1861 and 1873 [1], [2]. These Mathieu groups are the focus of this thesis, where we will prove their simplicity using elementary methods. E. Witt [5] realized a connection between the Mathieu groups and certain combinatorial structures known as Steiner systems. We will follow his construction to define the Mathieu groups as the automorphism groups of certain Steiner systems. Much of the work of the thesis lies in the construction of these Steiner systems, which we achieve by using both methods from finite geometry and the theory of Golay codes.

Useful Links

• Directed Reading Program at UCSC

• Mathematics in the Near East: Some Personal Observations by David Mumford

• Sinan Sertöz's Turkish Mathematicians Webpage (in Turkish)

• Geometric Group Theory

• The Webpage for the Commutative Algebra Community

• Number Theory Web

• Japanese Center of Combinatorics

• The Combinatorics Net

• Should I Quit Mathematics? by Francis Su

• Keith Conrad's Expository Papers

• Hyperlinked Lists of U.S. Doctoral Departments and Programs in Mathematics

Awards and Honors

• Teaching Assistantship by University of California, Santa Cruz, 2024

• Global Affairs Scholarship by West Virginia University, 2021, 2023

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship by West Virginia University, 2021

• Bilkent Departmental Scholarship by Bilkent University, 2017

• Nazım Terzioğlu Fellowship by the Turkish Mathematical Society, 2016

Attended Distinguished Lectures

• Cahit Arf Lecture on November 29, 2018 by Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy)

”Combinatorics and Geometry” at Cahit Arf Auditorium, METU Mathematics Department, Ankara, Türkiye

• Turkish Math. Society Tosun Terzioglu Lecture on September 28, 2018 by Robert Langlands (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA)

”Otomorfik formlarin bagimsiz bir teorisi var mi?” (Lecture given in Turkish) at Sabanci University Minerva Palas, Istanbul, Türkiye

• METU 60th Anniversary Honorary Lecture Series 2 on November 26, 2015 by Edward Frenkel (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

”Mathematics and Love in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at Kemal Kurdas Hall, METU Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara, Türkiye

• Cahit Arf Lecture on April 21, 2015 by Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA)

”Univalent Foundations of Mathematics” at Cahit Arf Auditorium, METU Mathematics Department, Ankara, Türkiye

• Cahit Arf Lecture on March 4, 2014 by Persi Diaconis (Stanford University, USA)

”The Mathematics of Coincidences” at Cahit Arf Auditorium, METU Mathematics Department, Ankara, Türkiye

Attended Workshops

• AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings on January 8-11, 2025

at Seattle Convention Center and the Sheraton Grand Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA

• Highway CA-17 Groups, Geometry, and Topology Seminar 

at UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA on February 28, 2025

at San José State University, San José, CA, USA on November 8, 2024

• Fairfax Algebra Days on March 9-10, 2024 

at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

• SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education on February 22-24, 2024 

on-line

• Morgantown Algebra Days on April 22-23, 2023 

at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA  

Professional Memberships

• American Mathematical Society, 2021 - Present

• Turkish Mathematical Society, 2018 - Present