CV (Dec. 23,2016)

NAME:

SELÇUK Ş. BAYIN

ADRESS:

Middle East Technical University

Institute of Applied Mathematics

Ankara 06800 TURKEY

Phone: (312) 210 5608

Fax : (312) 210 2985

E-mail : bayin @ metu.edu.tr

Web page: http://www.metu.edu.tr/~bayin

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (1979)

Univ. of Michigan, http://www.umich.edu/

Dept. of Physics

Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA

M. S. (1976)

Univ. of Michigan

Dept. of Physics

Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA

B. S. (1974)

Middle East Technical University, http://www.metu.edu.tr/

Physics Department

Ankara TURKEY

High School (1969)

TED Ankara College, http://tinyurl.com/66gtsbe

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WORK EXPERIENCE:

PROF. OF PHYSICS (2010- )

Middle East Technical University

Institute of Applied Mathematics

Ankara TURKEY

PROF. OF PHYSICS (MAY 93- Oct 10)

Middle East Technical University

Department of Physics

Ankara TURKEY

VISITING ASSOC. PROF. (MAY 93-SEPT.93)

Univ. of Michigan

Department of Physics

Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA

VISITING ASSOC. PROF. (OCT.92-APRIL93)

Univ. of Victoria

Department of Physics

Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 CANADA

ASSOC. PROF. (NOV.87-MAY 93)

M.E.T.U., Department of Physics

ASST. PROF. (OCT.86-NOV.87)

M.E.T.U., Department of Physics

ASST.PROF. ( SEPT. 84- JUNE 86)

Canisius College, Dept. of Physics

Buffalo NY 14208 USA

ASST.PROF. (SEPT.80-NOV.83)

M.E.T.U., Department of Physics

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW (SEPT.79-JUNE 80)

Univ. of Victoria, Dept. of Physics

Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 CANADA

TEACHING ASSISTANT ( SEPT.76-JUNE 79)

Univ. of Michigan, Dept. of Physics

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Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA

MEMBERSHIPS TO PROFFESIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Turkish Physical Society

American Physical Society

ALCL (Authors’ Licencing and Collecting Society)

OTHER MEMBERSHIPS:

Sports International Fitness and Tennis Centers

National Geographic Society

University of Michigan Alumni Association

AWARDS:

* Turkish Science Foundation(TUBITAK)Incentive Award(1991).

* Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Junior Scientist Award (1988).

* Honorable Mention in General relativity and Gravitation

essay contest (1986).

* Honorable Mention in General relativity and Gravitation

essay contest (1987).

* Honorable Mention in General relativity and Gravitation

essay contest (1988).

* Honorable Mention in General relativity and Gravitation

essay contest (1989).

* Honorable Mention in General relativity and Gravitation

essay contest (1991).

* Honorable Mention in General relativity and Gravitation

essay contest (2002).

PROFFESIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Since 1979 I have acted as referee in major scientific journals

like:

Phys. Rev.A,E,D

Phys. Rev. Lett.

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Gen. Rel. Grav.

J. Math. Phys.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ATTENDED:

Eighth Texas Symposium

(Boston 1976)

Eleventh Texas Symposium

(Austin 1982)

Eastern Theoretical Physics Conference

(Philadelphia 1985)

General meeting of the American Physical Society

(Atlanta 1986)

Second law of thermodynamics workshop

(Kayseri/TURKEY 1990)

Texas/Eso-Cern Symposium

(Brighton/ ENGLAND 1990)

Efficiency, Costs, Optimization, Simulation:

Enviromental Impact of Energy Systems : ECOS-95

(Istanbul/Turkey 1995)

Black Holes and Relativistic Astrophysics: A Symposium in Honor of S. Chandrasekhar

(The University of Chicago December 13-15,1996)

18th Tesas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

(Chicago December 15-20 1996)

Tercentenary of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz Vector

Dedicated to Peter Leach on his 70th birthday

(Durban/South Africa 2011)

SCHOLARSHIPS:

Research Fellowship from TUBITAK (June-Aug. 93).

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Ph.D. scholarship from the Turkish government (1974-

1979)

COURSES TAUGHT:

AT THE GRADUATE LEVEL:

Classical Mechanics

Electromagnetic Theory (I)

Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics (I & II)

AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL:

Freshman Physics: Calculus and noncalculus based

Thermodynamics

Quantum Mechanics (I & II)

Electromagnetic Theory (I & II)

Classical Mechanics

Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering(I&II)

THESES SUPERVISED:

2 M.S.

2 Ph.D.

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PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

1)ESSENTIALS OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

John Wiley and Sons (July 2008), Hard cover, 816 pps.

http://tinyurl.com/649grqm

2a)MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

John Wiley and Sons (July 2006), Hard cover,714 pps.

http://tinyurl.com/k7t4y

A license of this book was purchased by the Scientific

American Book Club.

Both of the above books were supported by grants from John

Wiley.

2b)Supplements (Approx. 240 pgs., 37 figures) of the

MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING can be

downloaded from the related ftp-site:

http://tinyurl.com/6aeqwvn

3) FEN ve MÜHENDİSLİK BİLİMLERİNDE MATEMATİK YÖNTEMLER- Genişletilmiş

2. Baskı.

Published by Ders Kitaplari AS-Istanbul (2004), hard cover, 458 pgs.

(Graduate level text book in Turkish entitled Mathematical Methods in Science and

Engineering, Revised and Expanded Second Edition.)

http://www.metu.edu.tr/%7Ebayin/kitap.html

4) FEN ve MÜHENDİSLİK BİLİMLERİNDE MATEMATİK YÖNTEMLER

Published by METU-Press (2000), hard cover, 317 pgs.

(Graduate level text book in Turkish entitled Mathematical Methods in Science and

Engineering.)

Amazon’s Selcuk Bayın Page: http://tinyurl.com/6xhsway

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OTHERS :

1)Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations For Static Fluid

Spheres.

Phys. Rev. D18, 2745 (1978).

S. Bayın

2)Radiating Fluid Spheres in General Relativity.

Phys. Rev. D19, 2838 (1979).

S. Bayın

3)Spherically Symmetric Fluid Spheres in General Relativity.

Thesis, University of Michigan (1979).

S. Bayın

4)Equation of State at Ultra High Densities and the Speed of

Sound.

Phys. Rev. D21, 1503 (1980).

S. Bayın

5)Comments on Radiating Fluid Spheres in General Relativity.

Phys. Rev. D21, 2443 (1980).

S. Bayın

6)Rotational Perturbations of Friedmann Universes.

Phys. Rev. D22, 2317 (1981).

S. Bayın and F.I. Cooperstock

7)The Localization of Energy in General Relativity II.

J. of Physics A: Gen. 14, 181 (1981).

F. I. Cooperstock, R. S. Sarracino and S. Bayın

8)Slowly Rotating Fluid Spheres in General Relativity with

and Without Radiation.

Phys. Rev. D24, 2056 (1981).

S. Bayın

9)Anisotropic Fluid Spheres in General Relativity.

Phys. Rev. D26, 1262 (1982).

S. Bayın

10)Slowly Rotating Fluid Spheres in General Relativity.

Phys. Rev. D27, 3030 (1983).

S. Bayın

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11)Relativistic Stars With Anisotropic Pressure.

Proceedings of the Eleventh Texas Symposium on

Relativistic Astrophysics (ed. D.S. Evans).

Annals of the New York Acad. of Sciences 422, 330 (1984).

S. Bayın

12) Comments on Rotational Perturbations of Friedmann Models.

Phys. Rev. D32, 2241 (1985).

S. Bayın

13) Comments on Rotational Perturbations of Friedmann

Universes in Einstein Zero- Mass Scalar Theory.

Can. J. Physics 63, 1320 (1985).

S. Bayın

14)Fluid Sources for Bianchi I and III Space - Times.

J. of Math. Phys., 27, 262 (1986).

S. Bayın and J. Krisch

15)Symmetry Changes in Friedmann Cosmologies.

Astrophysical Journal, 301, 517 (1986).

S. Bayın

16) Anisotropic Fluids and Cosmology.

Astrophysical Journal, 303, 101 (1986).

S. Bayın

17) Thermodynamics and General Relativity Could Determine the

Geometry of the Universe.

Proceedings of the XII. Texas Symposium on Rel. Astrophysics

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 470, 360 (1986).

S. Bayın

18) Thermodynamics and General Relativity Could Determine the

Geometry of the Universe.

General Relativity and Gravitation 19, 899 (1987).

S. Bayın

19)Comments on Slow Rotational Perturbations of Robertson

Walker Universes.

Astrophysics and Space Science 161, 351 (1989).

S. Bayın

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20)Temperature in Friedmann Thermodynamics and Its

Generalization to Arbitrary Space-Times.

General Relativity and Gravitation 22, 179 (1990).

S. Bayın

21)Is Absolute Zero Really Zero?

Workshop on Second Law of Thermodynamics (1990).

Erciyes U. - T.I.B.T.D. 27-30/8/90 Kayseri.

S. Bayın

22)Reply to I. Yavuz, C. Battal, and H. Baysal on Slow

Rotational Perturbations of Friedmann Universes.

Astrophysics and Space Science 187, 147 (1992).

S. Bayın

23)Mutlak Sıfır Gerçekten Sıfır Mı?

Bilim ve Teknik 25, 46 (1992).

S. Bayın

24)Reinterpretation of Perfect Fluid Solutions as More Realistic

Fluids in General Relativity.

Turkish Journal of Physics 16, 529 (1992).

S. Bayın

25)Casimir Energy In a Curved Background With a Spherical

Boundary

Phys.Rev. D48, 2806 (1993).

S. Bayın and M. Özcan

26)Casimir Effect in a "Half Einstein Universe": An Exactly

Solvable Case in Curved Background and With a Spherical

Boundary.

Class. Quantum Gravity 10, L115 (1993).

S. Bayın and M. Özcan

27)New Fluid Sources From Existing Ones In Biancki I, III and V

Turkish Journal of Physics 17, 125 (1993).

S. Bayın and J. Krisch

28) A Singularity-Free Cosmological Model

Proceedings of the 5. Canadian Conference on General Relativity

and Relativistic Astrophysics. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1993)

World Scientific (Singapure) pgs. 361-365.

S. Bayın, F.I. Cooperstock and V. Faraoni

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29)A singularity-Free Cosmological Model With a Conformally

Coupled Scalar Field Proceedings of the Yamada Conference

XXXVII, Evolution of the Universe and Its Observational

Quest,Yamada (Japan) (1993) p.347. K. Sato ed., Universal

Academy Press (Tokyo).

S. Bayın, F.I. Cooperstock and V. Faraoni

30)Casimir Energy in Curved Background in with Spherical

Boundary and Arbitrary Radius: An exact Solution Via The Point

Splitting Method.

Phys.Rev. D49, 5313 (1994).

S. Bayın and M. Özcan

31)A Singularity-Free Cosmological Model with a Conformally

Coupled Scalar Field.

Astrophysical Journal 428, 439 (1994).

S. Bayın, F.I. Cooperstock and V. Faraoni

32)Energy Localization Problem and the Renormalized Vacuum

energy in Static Friedman Universes.

Gen.Rel.Grav. 26, 951 (1994).

S. Bayın

33)Friedmann Thermodynamics and the Geometry of the Universe.

Proceedıngs of ECOS-95 , July 11-15, Istanbul,

Y. A. Gögüs, A. Öztürk , G. Tsatsaronis eds. pg. 3 (1995).

S. Bayın

34)The Casimir Energy of the Twisted String Loop: Uniform and

Two Segment Loops.

Journal of Mathematical Physics 37, 3662 (1996).

S. Bayın, J.Krisch and M. Ozcan

35)Casimir Energy of the Massless Scalar Field on S-1 by the

Point-Splitting Method.

Turkish Journal of Physics 21,632 (1997).

S. Bayın, M. Özcan and J. Krisch

36)Casimir Energy of the Massless Conformal Scalar Field on S-2

by the Back-Ground metric.

Journal of Mathematical Physics 38, 5240, (1997).

S. Bayın, M. Özcan

37) An Open Singularity-Free Cosmological Model With Inflation.

Int. J. Mod. Phys. A17, 4457 (2002).

K. Koray, S. Bayın

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38)Missing Mass and the Acceleration of the Universe. Is

Quintessence the Only Explanation?

Int. J. Mod. Phys. D11, 1523 (2002).

S. Bayın

39)An Open Singularity-Free Cosmological Model With Inflation.

Turkish J. of Phys. 27, 1 (2003).

K. Koray, S. Bayın

40)Inflation in a Flat Universe.

Turkish J. of Phys. 27, 19 (2003).

K. Koray, S. Bayın

41)Missing Mass, Dark Energy and the Acceleration of the

Universe. Is Acceleration Here to Stay?

arXiv: Astro-ph/0410710 (2004).

S. Bayın

42)An Open Inflationary Model for Dimensional Reduction and its

Effects on the Observable Parameters of the Universe.

Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 2449 (2005).

K. Koray, S. Bayın

43)Fractional Boundaries for Fluid Spheres

Journal of Mathematical Physics, 47,012501,(2006).

S. Bayın, E.N. Glass and J.P. Krisch

44)A Physical Model For Dimensional Reduction and its Effects on

the Observable Parameters of the Universe.

General Relativity and Gravitation,40,799-831, 2008.

S. Bayın , K. Koray

45)Time Fractional Schrödinger Equation and the Effective

Potential.

J. Math. Phys. 54, 012103, 2013.

S. Bayın

46)On the Consistency of the Solutions of the Space Fractional

Schrödinger Equation.

J. Math. Phys., 53, 042105, 2012.

S. Bayın

47)Comment on ‘On the Consistency of the Solutions of the Space

Fractional Schrödinger Equation’[J. Math. Phys. 53, 042105

(2012)].

J. Math. Phys., 53, 084101, 2012.

S. Bayın

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48)Comment on ‘On the Consistency of the Solutions of the Space

Fractional Schrödinger Equation’ [J. Math. Phys. 53, 042105

(2012)].

J. Math. Phys., 54, 074101, 2013.

S. Bayın

49)Consistency Problem of the Solutions of the Space Fractional

Schrödinger Equation.

J. Math. Phys., 54, 092101, 2013.

S. Bayın

50)Is the Universe Flat?

ArXiv:1309.5815, 2013.

S. Bayın and W.

51)Model-Driven Applications of Fractional Derivatives and

Integrals

ArXiv:1405.1999, 2014.

S. Bayın and W. A. Sethares

52)Fractional Incompressible Stars.

Astrophys. Space Sci. 58, 359 2015.

S. Bayın and J. P. Krisch

53)Definition of the Riesz Derivative and its Application to

Space Fractional Quantum Mechanics.

J. Math. Phys., 57, 123501, 2016.

S. Bayın

Current activities:

I) I continue working on the supplements of my books published by Wiley and their second

editions.

II) My research on general theory of relativity and cosmology, which addresses some

fundamental questions regarding the connections of geometry and thermodynamics continues.