Tolga Etgü
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PhD University of California at Berkeley
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Low dimensional topology, Symplectic and contact topology, Symplectic cohomology, Heegaard Floer homology, Computational social science
Biography
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| EXPERIENCE | |
| 2023— | Professor, Department Chair, Nazarbayev University |
| 2004— | Professor (currently on leave), Associate Professor (2008-2013), Assistant Professor (2004-2008), Koç University |
| 2002—2004 | Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University |
| 1997—2002 | Teaching and Research Assistant, University of California Berkeley |
| 1994—1997 | Teaching and Research Assistant, Middle East Technical University |
| VISITING POSITIONS | |
| 2016—2017 | Visiting Fellow, Princeton University |
| 2011 | Research Visitor, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics – Bonn |
| 2009—2010 | Research Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute – Berkeley |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2002 | Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California Berkeley |
| 1997 | M.Sc. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University |
| 1994 | B.Sc. in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University |
- Social networks in times of Turkey’s currency crisis, (with Gizem Bacaksizlar Turbic etal.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (to appear)
- Fukaya categories of plumbings and multiplicative preprojective algebra, (with Yankı Lekili), Quantum Topology, 10 (2019), 777–813.
- Nonfillable Legendrian knots in the 3-sphere, Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 18 (2018), 1077–1088.
- Koszul duality patterns in Floer theory, (with Yankı Lekili), Geometry and Topology, 21 (2017), 3313–3389.
- Uniqueness of area minimizing surfaces for extreme curves, (with Barış Coşkunüzer), Revista Matematica Iberoamericana, 30 (2014), 1135–1148.
- Tight contact structures on laminar free hyperbolic three-manifolds, International Mathematics Research Notices, 2012 (2012), 4775–4784.
- Examples of planar tight contact structures with support norm one, (with Yankı Lekili), International Mathematics Research Notices, 2010 (2010), 3723–3728.
- Explicit horizontal open books on some plumbings, (with Burak Ozbagci), International Journal of Mathematics, 17 (2006), 1013–1031.
- Symplectic tori in rational elliptic surfaces, (with B. Doug Park), Mathematische Annalen, 334 (2006), 679–691.
- Lagrangian tori in homotopy elliptic surfaces, (with David McKinnon and B. Doug Park), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 357 (2005), 3757–3774.
- Non-isotopic symplectic tori in the same homology class, (with B. Doug Park), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 356 (2004), 3739–3750.
- Lefschetz fibrations, complex structures and Seifert fibrations on S1×M3, Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 1 (2001), 469–489.
