Selma Yildirim Yolcu
Golomb Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1395
USA


Office:
MATH 736
Email:
syildir@math.purdue.edu
Phone:
(765) 494-1954
Fax:
(765) 494-0548 


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Education:
PhD in Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009


Research Interests: Spectral theory, partial differential equations, stable processes.
In particular: Eigenvalue inequalities for Klein-Gordon operators,Dirichlet Laplacian, Fractional Laplacian and symmetric stable processes.

Work in Progress:
11. Bounds on the spectra of the Stokes operator, (with T. Yolcu), in preparation.
10. On the eigenvalues of poly-Laplacian operator, (with T. Yolcu), in preparation.
9. Sharper estimates on the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplacian operator (with T. Yolcu), in preparation.
8. Sharp Bounds for spectral functions of the Klein-Gordon operator (with L. Hermi), (2010), preprint.

Journal Papers:

7. Estimates on the eigenvalues of the clamped plate problem (with T. Yolcu), accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Physics (March 23, 2013)

6.  Heat trace of nonlocal operators (with R. Banuelos), Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 87(1) (2013) 304-318.

5. Estimates for the sums of eigenvalues of the fractional Laplacian on a bounded domain (with T. Yolcu),  Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (2012) (DOI: 10.1142/S0219199712500484)

4. Multidimensional lower bounds for the eigenvalues of Stokes and Dirichlet Laplacian operators (with T. Yolcu), Journal of Mathematical Physics, 53(4) (2012) 043508.

3. Bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplacian (with T. Yolcu), Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 24(3) (2012) 1250003.

2. An Improvement to a Berezin-Li-Yau type inequality for the Klein-Gordon Operator, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 138(11) (2010) 4059-4066.

1. Eigenvalue inequalities for Klein-Gordon Operators (with E. Harrell), Journal of Functional Analysis, 256(12) (2009) 3977-3995.

 Thesis:
Eigenvalue Inequalities for Relativistic Hamiltonians and Fractional Laplacian, PhD Thesis (December 2009).


Awards:


1. 2009 CETL/BP Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Georgia Institute of Technology. (link)

2. 2008 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, School of Math, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Teaching:

Current: MA 26200- Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

Previous Teaching Experience at Purdue

MA 52700- Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists I : Summer 2012.

MA 35100- Elementary Linear Algebra: Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012.

MA 26200- Linear Algebra and Differential Equations: Fall 2010, Fall 2012.