Faculty Guide

Title

Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mathematics

Mathematics

Expertise

Low dimensional geometry and topology

Profile

home page: http://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/baykur

Awards and Honors

Visiting member, Institutes des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris (2011)

W2 Research Associate Professorship, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany (2011)

Program membership, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA (2010)

National Science Foundation Research Grant (2009)

Visiting member, Institutes des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris (2009)

Courses Taught

MATH	20a	Techniques of Calculus: Calculus of Several Variables
MATH	34a	Introduction to Topology
MATH	37a	Differential Equations
MATH	121a	Topology I
MATH	121b	Topology II
MATH	139a	Differential Topology
MATH	221b	Topics in Topology

Scholarship

Anar Akhmedov, S. Baldridge, R. Inanc Baykur, P. Kirk, and D. Park. "Simply connected minimal symplectic 4-manifolds with signature less than −1." Journal of the European Mathematical Society 12. 1 (2010): 133-161.

R. Inanc Baykur. "Handlebody argument for modifying achiral singularities." Geometry & Topology 13. (2009): 308-318.

R. Inanc Baykur. "Topology of broken Lefschetz fibrations and near-symplectic 4-manifolds." Pacific Journal of Mathematics 240. 2 (2009): 201-230.

Anar Akhmedov, R. Inanc Baykur, and D. Park. "Constructing infinitely many smooth structures on small 4-manifolds." Journal of Topology 2. (2008): 409-428.

R. Inanc Baykur. "Existence of broken Lefschetz fibrations." International Mathematics Research Notices 2008. (2008): 15 pages.

R. Inanc Baykur. Celebration of draughts (Damaya Guzelleme). Book in Turkish. Istanbul, Turkey: Yazi-Goruntu-Ses, 2008.

R. Inanc Baykur. Symplectic structures, Lefschetz fibrations and their generalizations on smooth four-manifolds. Diss. Michigan State University, June 2007. East Lansing, MI: 2007.

R. Inanc Baykur. "Kaehler decomposition of 4-manifolds." Algebraic and Geometric Topology 6. (2006): 1239-1265.