Ahmet Beyaz

Department of Mathematics, METU, Ankara, 06531, Turkey

+90-312-210-5394

I was born in Ankara in 1976. The education until the graduation from the university is completed in Ankara. My research area in mathematics is geometry, topology and symplectic topology.

Education:

2000-2006 Ph.D in Mathematics, University of California Irvine, USA

2003-2004 Visiting Graduate Student, Princeton University, USA

1996-2000 B.Sc in Mathematics, METU, Ankara, Turkey

1997-1999 Minor in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, METU, Ankara, Turkey

1987-1994 Ankara Ataturk Anadolu Lisesi, Ankara, Turkey

Preprints:

A New Construction of 6-Manifolds (Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

Gromov-Witten Invariants of the Stabilizations of Symplectic 4-Manifolds

Teaching:

2006 Fall to today: at METU: Calculus, History of Mathematical Concepts, Differential Topology, Linear Algebra

2005 Summer School at UCI: Precalculus

2004 Summer School at UCI: Calculus

Talks:

2009:

Bazi 6-Manifoldlarin GW Degismezleri, METU

Gromov-Witten Invariants, Dokuz Eylul University

2008:

Bazi 6-Manifoldlarin GW Degismezleri, Koc University

GW Degismezleri, Abant Izzet Baysal University

GW invariants of XxS^2, METU

2006:

Which 6-manifolds are symplectic?, METU

Dissertation defence: A New Construction of Spin Smooth 6-Manifolds, UCI

Spin 6-Manifolds, University of Indiana Bloomington

Intersection of Homology Elements, UCI

Characteristic Classes, UCI

Symplectic Topology III - Seiberg-Witten Invariants, UCI

Symplectic Topology II - Symplectic Lefschetz Pencils, UCI

Symplectic Topology I - Introduction, UCI

2005:

Classification of Smooth 4-Manifolds, UCI

2004:

Surgeries and Symplectic Topology in Dimension 4, UCI

Knot theory, UCI

Symplectic Topology in Dimension 4, Princeton University

2003:

Moment Maps and Symplectic Topology, Michigan State University

Lefschetz Fibrations, Michigan State University

Advancement to Ph.D. candicacy exam: A Torus Fibration in Mirror Symmetry, UCI

Finite Dimensional Real Grassmanians, California Institute of Technology

Reference:

Ron Stern, UCI

Anar Akhmedov, Georgia Tech University

R. Inanc Baykur, Brandeis University