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I am a graduate of Darüşşafaka  Lisesi , a boarding school in İstanbul, Turkey. I had my B.Sc. at Middle East Technical University  in Ankara  and my Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada . I worked as a research assistant in Gebze at Marmara Research Center of TÜBİTAK, (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey). Then I joined the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science of Bilkent University in Ankara.

I received Sedat Simavi Science Award. See  BilNews ve Matematik Dünyası and the ceremony.

I also received Bilkent Distinguished Teaching Award. See  BilNews and the ceremony.

Personal: My Family on the web  Goto Top

Married to Zehra Tülin Sertöz, documentary film director.

Children:
Emre Can (1989) at  Bilkent  and at  Berlin, and an excerpt from the Acknowledgments section of his dissertation.

İpek (1998).

Özde

Recent Publications  Goto Top
List of all publications

1. Alexander Degtyarev, Ilia Itenberg, Ali Sinan Sertöz: Lines on quartic surfaces,
   Mathematische Annalen, 368, No: 1-2, (2017), 753-809.
   DOI: 10.1007/s00208-016-1484-0
   
   

2. Ali Sinan Sertöz: Dirichlet problem for polynomials on the unit disk,
   Communications of  the Korean Mathematical Society, Vol. 29, No. 3,  (2014), 415-420.
   PDF File
      

3. James D. Lewis & Ali Sinan Sertöz: Motives of some Fano Varieties,
   Mathematische Zeitschrift, Vol. 261, No. 3, (2009), 531-544.
   PDF File
    

4. Caner Koca & Ali Sinan Sertöz: Irreducible Heegner Divisors in the Period Space of Enriques Surfaces,
   International Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 2, (2008), 209-215.
   math.AG/0509687  PDF File
    

5. Ali Sinan Sertöz: A Scientific Biography of Cahit Arf (1910-1997),
   math.HO 1301.3699
    

6. Sertöz, A. S. : Which Singular K3 Surfaces Cover an Enriques Surface,
   Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 133 (2005), 43-50.
   PDF File    Türkçe Özet

Courses Taught Goto Top        Courses Web Page

Undergraduate Level

1 : Calculus (for engineers) [Thomas & Finney]
2 : Calculus (for math majors) [Apostol]
3 : Discrete Mathematics [Kolman & Busby]
4 : Differential Equations with Linear Algebra [Nitecki & Guterman]
5 : Linear Algebra, [Hoffman and Kunze]
6 : Algebra, [Herstein]
7 : Groups, [Polites]
8 : Advanced Calculus, [Buck], [Wade]
9 : Algebraic Geometry Seminar, [Cox, Little & O'Shea]
10: Complex Analysis, [Churchill], [Bak & Newman]
11: Introduction to Unix
12 : Polynomial Algebra, [Cox, Little & O'Shea]
13: Algebraic Geometry, [Reid], [Ueno], [Griffiths]
14: Commutative Algebra, [Reid]
15: A Concise History of Mathematics [Anglin]
16: Complex Calculus and Transformation Techniques [Churchill]
17: Abstract Mathematics [Krantz, Reid & Szendroi]
18: Complex Geometry [Griffiths and Harris, Lewis, Huybrechts]

Graduate Level

1 : Algebra, [Lang]
2 : Algebraic Geometry, [Harris], [Hartshorne], [Barth et al], [Smith et al]
3 : Topics in Algebraic Geometry, [Kollar's Bulletin article]
4 : Differential Geometry, [Warner]
5 : Lie Groups, [Hausner and Schwartz]
6 : Algebraic Topology, [Massey]
7 : Complex Analysis, [Conway]
8: Complex Geometry [Griffiths and Harris, Lewis, Huybrechts]

2024 Spring Semester: Goto Top
Classes will run: 29 January 2024 Monday -- 17 May 2024 Friday

Contact Information   Goto Top

 Ali Sinan Sertöz           
 Bilkent University         
 Department of Mathematics 
 06800 Ankara,             
 Türkiye  

 Office:  SA-121           
 Phone : (90-312) 290 1490 (office)                          
                 (90-312) 290 1586  (department) 
 Fax   : (90-312) 290 1797