MEHMET HALUK SENGUN

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Mathematics
618 Van Vleck Hall
480 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
sengun [at] math [dot] wisc [dot] edu

 

 

 

This is a picture of me from my undergraduate years
at Istanbul Bilgi University Math Department.
It is drawn by my teacher Ali Nesin.

picture of me

I am a PhD student in mathematics at UW-Madison and my advisor is Nigel Boston. I am graduating in 2008 Spring.

Here is my Curriculum Vitae.


RESEARCH:

I am interested in algebraic number theory, elliptic curves, modular and automorphic forms and Galois representations. In particular, I am focusing on the connection between Galois representations and automorphic forms. Currently, I am working on formulating and testing an analogue of Serre's Conjecture over imaginary quadratic fields.

Here is my Research Statement.


Here is a list of my publications:

1. The nonexistence of certain representations of the absolute Galois group of quadratic fields ,   Proceedings of AMS, accepted for publication.

2. On the cohomology of Bianchi groups,  with Fritz Grunewald, in progress.

3. The deformation theory of Galois representations ,   to appear in "Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem" by Nigel Boston et. al.


Here are some notes and expository papers:

1. Notes on Serre's Paper on Images of Galois Representations of Elliptic Curves ,   Mostly a (free) translation of some parts of Serre's 1972 Inventiones Paper
"Propriétés galoisiennes des points d'ordre fini des courbes elliptiques". I added some small explanations and a small appendix.

2. A survey of Serre's Conjecture over imaginary quadratic fields


PROFESSIONAL SCHEDULE :

  1. 16-30 October 2007:   Research visit to Heinrich-Heine University at Dusseldorf, Germany
  2. 25 October 2008:   Seminar talk at Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University of Essen, Germany
  3. 17 January 2008:   Seminar talk at UIUC , (click HERE for the slides of this talk)
  4. 28 January 2008:   Seminar talk at Iowa State
  5. 12 February 2008:   Seminar talk at Five Colleges Number Theory Seminar, Amherst
  6. 13 February 2008:   Research visit to Boston College, Boston
  7. 7 March 2008:   Talk at Midwest Number Theory Conference at UIC, Chicago, (click HERE for the slides of this talk)
  8. 22 April - 4 May 2008:   Research visit to Heinrich-Heine University at Dusseldorf, Germany
  9. 23 May 2008:   Seminar talk at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
  10. 28 May - 2 June 2008:   Talk at the 10th Antalya Algebra Days, Antalya, Turkey
  11. 28-03 June-July 2008:   Attend the CMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic
  12. 17-23 August 2008:   Talk at the Computations with Modular Forms Conference, Bristol, UK

TEACHING:

I have many years of experience in teaching (at the levels of TA, Instructor and also Coordinator) undergraduate math classes of varying levels.

Here is my Teaching Statement.



I am teaching/coordinating Math 101 this spring semester. Here is the LINK to the webpage of the class.

Here is a review sheet I prepared for Math101 from previous semesters.
Math 101 Review.


Here is a list of the math classes I taught with the student evaluations I got. The bottom ones that have no evaluation are taught at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Semester Class Responsibility Evaluation
2008 Fall Math 113 , Trigonometry Instructor satisfactory +
2007 Spring Math 101 , Intermediate Algebra Coordinator/Instructor superior
2006 Fall Math 210 , Topics in Finite Mathematics TA satisfactory
2006 Summer Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
for PEOPLE
Instructor n/a
2006 Spring Math 113 , Trigonometry Instructor satisfactory +
2005 Fall Math 213 , Calculus and Introduction to Differential Equations TA superior
2005 Summer Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
for PEOPLE
Instructor n/a
2005 Spring Math 113 , Trigonometry Instructor satisfactory +
2004 Fall Math 210 , Topics in Finite Mathematics TA satisfactory +
2004 Spring Math 101 , Intermediate Algebra Instructor superior
2003 Fall Math 222 , Calculus and Analytic Geometry II TA satisfactory +
2003 Spring Math 221 , Calculus and Analytic Geometry I TA satisfactory +
2002 Fall Math 222 , Calculus and Analytic Geometry II TA satisfactory
2002 Spring Math 321 , Measure Theory TA n/a
2002 Spring Math 112 , Set Theory II Instructor n/a
2002 Fall Math 222 , Topology and Metric Spaces TA n/a
2001 Spring Math 111 , Set Theory I Instructor n/a


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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