TEACHING
Course pages, lecture materials and reading suggestions from my teaching in theoretical physics, mathematics and the history of science.
Fall 2026
- PHYS 531 · Quantum Mechanics
- PHYS 301 · Classical Mechanics I
- History of Mathematics
Course archive
Links below lead to the materials for the stated semester.
Boğaziçi University
Mechanics, modern physics & mathematical methods
- Phys-150: Information and Entropy, Spring 2022, Spring 2025
- Phys-177: Computational Dynamical Systems and Probability, Summer 2025
- Phys-197: Analytical Methods in Physics, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Phys-301: Classical Mechanics I, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2025
- Phys-302: Classical Mechanics II, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2026
- Phys-311: Modern Physics I, Fall 2023
- Phys-312: Modern Physics II, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
Advanced physics
- Phys-407: Advanced Quantum Physics I, Spring 2024
- Phys-408: Advanced Quantum Physics II, Summer 2024
- Phys-422: Statistical Mechanics and Introduction to Many Body Theory, Spring 2021
- Phys-472: Elementary Particle Physics, Spring 2023
- Phys-48C: Conformal Field Theory, Spring 2026
- Phys-48Z: Group Theory for Physicists, Fall 2023
- Phys-481: Introduction to String Theory, Spring 2024
- Phys-495: Integrable models, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2025
- Phys-511: Electromagnetic Theory I, Fall 2021, Fall 2024
- Phys-525: Introduction to General Relativity, Spring 2020
- Phys-595: Integrable models, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
- Phys-596: String Theory, Fall 2024
Research courses
History of science
- STS-322: History of Classical Physics, Spring 2023, Fall 2025
- STS-323: History of Modern Physics, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- STS-410: History of Science (From the 18th century to the present), Fall 2022
- STS-421: History of Mathematics, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2026
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University · 2017–2019
- Fiz201: Mathematical methods in Physics I, Fall 2017, Fall 2018
- Fiz365: Computational methods in Physics I, Fall 2018
- Mat127: Analysis I, Summer 2018
- Fiz202: Mathematical methods in Physics II, Spring 2018, Spring 2019
- Fiz582: Introduction to Supersymmetry, Fall 2017
Summer and winter schools · 2011–2020
- Classical Mechanics and Field theory: Lectures at the Week of Theoretical Physics, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 06-11 January 2020
- Theory of surfaces and Differential equations: Lectures at the Geometry and Symmetry” school, IMBM, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-17 September 2019
- Modern Geometry for Physicists, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 14-20 January 2019
- Witten index and applications: Lectures at the international school “Advanced Methods of Modern Theoretical Physics: Integrable and Stochastic Systems”, JINR, Dubna, Russia, 5-9 August 2018
- Classical Mechanics and Field theory: Lectures at the Week of Theoretical Physics, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 15-21 January 2018
- Integrable models of statistical mechanics: Lectures at the international school “Advanced Methods of Modern Theoretical Physics: Integrable and Stochastic Systems”, JINR, Dubna, Russia, 6-12 August 2017
- Symplectic geometry and dynamics of group manifolds: Lectures at the Sirince school of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 17-24 September 2017
- Theta functions, modular transformations and conformal field theory: Lectures at the Sirince school of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 17-24 September 2017
- Elliptic hypergeometric functions: Three lectures at the Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, May 2, May 3 2017
- Supersymmetric quantum mechanics: Lectures at the “Supersymmetry and applications” school, Feza Gursey Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 25 January – 02 February 2017
- Introduction to quantum integrable models: Lectures at the Sirince school of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 12 – 18 September 2016
- Basic and elliptic hypergeometric functions: Lectures at the Sirince school of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Nesin Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 07 – 20 September 2015
- A crash course in theoretical physics: Lectures at the Summer school “Physics and Mathematics”, Institute of Radiation Problems, Baku, Azerbaijan, 24 August – 02 September 2015
- Elliptic hypergeometric functions and Physics: Lectures at the Undergraduate and Graduate Mathematics Summer School, Turkish Mathematical Society, Nesin Matematik Köyü–Şirince, Izmir, Turkey, 15 August – 21 September 2014
- Classical mechanics: Intensive course for undergraduate students at the Institute of Radiation Problems, Baku, Azerbaijan, 25 Dec 2013 – 08 Jan 2014
- Quantum field theory: Lectures at the Summer School on Mathematics, Turkish Mathematical Society, Nesin Matematik Köyü–Şirince, Izmir,Turkey, 22 August – 4 September 2011
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