Seçkin Demirba?

University of British Columbia

Room 121, 1984 Mathematics Road Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2

s.demirbas@math.ubc.ca

 

Education:

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA 2010-2015

Ph.D. Thesis: A Study on Certain Periodic Schrodinger Equations
Concentrations: Partial Differential Equations and Harmonic Analysis.
• M.A., Mathematics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 34342 Turkey 2007-2010

Master's Thesis: The Regularity Properties of the Solutions of the Almost Cubic Non-linear Schrödinger Equation with the Initial Data in Less Regular Sobolev Spaces (Below the Energy Space).
• B.A, Mathematics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 34342 Turkey 2002-2007

Educational Leadership Projects:

• Co-organizer for Archimedes Talks in Fall 2017, STEM talks series for high school students aimed at encouraging and inspiring students to pursue higher education. http://www.math.ubc.ca/Links/ArchimedesTalks/upcoming.html
• Founding member and a tutor of Pie-R-Squared, a voluntary tutoring program for underprivileged high school and middle school students in Boston, where we provided free healthy food and helped students succeed in mathematics. https://www.piersquared.org/
• Tutor and workshop facilitator with the Education Justice Project, an outreach project for incarcerated students at Danville Correctional Center in Illinois. The project offers upper-level university courses through the University of Illinois, and supports students with coursework for lower-level courses through Danville Area Community College (DACC). http://www.educationjustice.net/home/
• Engaged in a Community of Inquiry, whose goal is to investigate how instructors can help develop self-regulated learning skills in students, facilitated by Silvia Mazabel in Education Department at UBC and involving professors from across UBC.

Teaching Experience:

University of British Columbia
• Instructor, 2018 Winter 2,
  UBC Course: Elementary Differential Equations (Math 215/255)
• Instructor, 2017 Winter 1,
  UBC Course: Introduction to Proofs (Math 220)
• Instructor, 2017 Winter 2,
  UBC Course: Partial Differential Equations (Math 257/316)
• Instructor, 2016 Winter 1,
  UBC Course: Introduction to Proofs (Math 220)

Northeastern Univeristy
• Instructor and Course Coordinator, 2016 Spring,
  Northeastern Course:Calculus I (Math 1341)
• Instructor, 2015 Fall,
  Northeastern Course:Calculus III (Math 2321)

Pi R Squared Tutoring
• Voluntary Math Tutor for High Schools in Roxburry, MA, 2015 Fall to 2016 Spring,
  within Dudley Dough/Haley House.

Danville Correctional Center
• Voluntary Math Tutor and Workshop Facilitator, 2013 Fall to 2014 Spring,
  within Education Justice Project.

MSRI
• Teaching Assistant, 2014 Summer,
  MSRI Workshop on Dispersive Equations

UIUC
• Teaching Assistant, 2014 Fall,
  UIUC Course: Calculus I (Math 221)
• Teaching Assistant, 2014 Spring,
  UIUC Course: Calculus II (Math 231)
• Teaching Assistant, 2013 Fall,
  UIUC Course: Calculus III (math 241, Vector Calculus)

Bogazici University
• Teaching Assistant, 2010 Spring,
  Bogazici University Course: Calculus I (Math 101)
• Teaching Assistant, 2009 Fall,
  Bogazici University Course: Real Analysis (Math 331)
• Student Assistant, 2006 - 2007,
  Bogazici University Course: Vector Calculus (Math 232)

Supported Projects:

• Scientific Project on ‘Regularity Properties of Almost Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation’ supported in part by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).

Conference Participation:

• Non-Linear Dispersive Equations Work-shop at Bogazici University 2008
• NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences 2013

Conference Talks:

• Local well posedness for 2-D SchrödingerEquation on Irrational Tori and Bounds on Sobolev Norms, SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Florida. (Dec, 2013)
• Gibbs' measure and almost sure global well-posedness for one dimensional periodic fractional Schrödinger equation, AMS Sectional Meeting at San Francisco State University, (Oct, 2014)
• Gibbs' measure and almost sure global wel l-posedness for one dimensional periodic fractional Schrödinger equation, AMS Sectional Meeting at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, Invited

Other Talks:

• The Schrödinger Equation on a compact 2 dimensional Manifold, Graduate Geometry Topology Seminar,
• Gibbs' measure and almost sure global well-posedness for one dimensional periodic fractional Schrödinger equation, Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Seminar,
• Introduction to Schrödinger equations, Graduate Students Seminar.

Publications

• S. Demirbas (2014) Almost Sure Global Well-posedness for Fractional Cubic Schrödinger equation on torus, to appear in Canadian Math. Bulletin.
• S. Demirbas, B. Erdo?an, N. Tzirakis (2013) Existence and Uniqueness Theory for the Fractional Schrödinger Equation on the Torus, to appear in Advance Lectures in Mathematics, edited by S. T. Yau, K. Liu and Lizhen Ji.
• S. Demirbas (2013) Local Well-posedness for 2-D Schrodinger Equation on Irrational Tori and Bounds on Sobolev Norms, to appear in Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis.
• S. Demirbas, A. Eden (2011) Further scattering results for almost cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Appl. Math. Lett. 24 (2011), no. 2,111–115.
• S. Demirbas, A. Eden, E. Kuz (2010). “Further regularity results for almost cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation”. Journal of Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods & Applications 72 (2010), no. 6, 3112– 3118.

Grants and Fellowships:

• Bogazici University Success Scholarship for admission to the department as the top student
• Project grant by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).

Awards and Honors:

• Bogazici University Dora Aksoy Award (2010)
• Bogazici University High Honour Award (2007)
• Top Student of the Department Award (2007)

Other Interests and Hobbies:

Cinema and photography, short stories, music, billiards.