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I am a graduate of Dar���afaka  Lisesi , a boarding school in �stanbul, Turkey. I had my B.Sc. at Middle East Technical University  in Ankara  and my Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada . I worked as a research assistant in Gebze at Marmara Research Center of T�B�TAK, (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey). Then I joined the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science of Bilkent University in Ankara.

I received Sedat Simavi Science Award. See  BilNews ve Matematik D�nyas� and the ceremony.

I also received Bilkent Distinguished Teaching Award. See  BilNews and the ceremony.

Personal: My Family on the web  Goto Top

Married to Zehra T�lin Sert�z, documentary film director.

Children:
Emre Can (1989) at  Bilkent  and at  Berlin, and an excerpt from the Acknowledgments section of his dissertation.

�pek (1998).

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Recent Publications  Goto Top
List of all publications

1. Alexander Degtyarev, Ilia Itenberg, Ali Sinan Sert�z: Lines on quartic surfaces,
   Mathematische Annalen, 368, No: 1-2, (2017), 753-809.
   DOI: 10.1007/s00208-016-1484-0
   
   

2. Ali Sinan Sert�z: Dirichlet problem for polynomials on the unit disk,
   Communications of  the Korean Mathematical Society, Vol. 29, No. 3,  (2014), 415-420.
   PDF File
      

3. James D. Lewis & Ali Sinan Sert�z: Motives of some Fano Varieties,
   Mathematische Zeitschrift, Vol. 261, No. 3, (2009), 531-544.
   PDF File
    

4. Caner Koca & Ali Sinan Sert�z: Irreducible Heegner Divisors in the Period Space of Enriques Surfaces,
   International Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 2, (2008), 209-215.
   math.AG/0509687  PDF File
    

5. Ali Sinan Sert�z: A Scientific Biography of Cahit Arf (1910-1997),
   math.HO 1301.3699
    

6. Sert�z, A. S. : Which Singular K3 Surfaces Cover an Enriques Surface,
   Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 133 (2005), 43-50.
   PDF File    T�rk�e �zet

Courses Taught Goto Top        Courses Web Page

Undergraduate Level

1 : Calculus (for engineers) [Thomas & Finney]
2 : Calculus (for math majors) [Apostol]
3 : Discrete Mathematics [Kolman & Busby]
4 : Differential Equations with Linear Algebra [Nitecki & Guterman]
5 : Linear Algebra, [Hoffman and Kunze]
6 : Algebra, [Herstein]
7 : Groups, [Polites]
8 : Advanced Calculus, [Buck], [Wade]
9 : Algebraic Geometry Seminar, [Cox, Little & O'Shea]
10: Complex Analysis, [Churchill], [Bak & Newman]
11: Introduction to Unix
12 : Polynomial Algebra, [Cox, Little & O'Shea]
13: Algebraic Geometry, [Reid], [Ueno], [Griffiths]
14: Commutative Algebra, [Reid]
15: A Concise History of Mathematics [Anglin]
16: Complex Calculus and Transformation Techniques [Churchill]
17: Abstract Mathematics [Krantz, Reid & Szendroi]
18: Complex Geometry [Griffiths and Harris, Lewis, Huybrechts]

Graduate Level

1 : Algebra, [Lang]
2 : Algebraic Geometry, [Harris], [Hartshorne], [Barth et al], [Smith et al]
3 : Topics in Algebraic Geometry, [Kollar's Bulletin article]
4 : Differential Geometry, [Warner]
5 : Lie Groups, [Hausner and Schwartz]
6 : Algebraic Topology, [Massey]
7 : Complex Analysis, [Conway]
8: Complex Geometry [Griffiths and Harris, Lewis, Huybrechts]

2024 Spring Semester: Goto Top
Classes will run: 29 January 2024 Monday -- 17 May 2024 Friday

Contact Information   Goto Top

 Ali Sinan Sert�z           
 Bilkent University         
 Department of Mathematics 
 06800 Ankara,             
 T�rkiye  

 Office:  SA-121           
 Phone : (90-312) 290 1490 (office)                          
                 (90-312) 290 1586  (department) 
 Fax   : (90-312) 290 1797