Turkay Yolcu

Turkay Yolcu
Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 USA
Office: MATH 726
Email: tyolcu@math.purdue.edu

Phone: (765) 494-1948
Fax: (765) 494-0548

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Education:

Ph.D. in Mathematics Aug 2009, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA

Ph.D. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Wilfrid Gangbo

Minor in Mechanical Engineering

M.Sc. in Mathematics,,Aug 2008,,Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA

M.Sc. in Mathematics, July 2002, METU, Ankara, TURKEY

M.Sc. Thesis Advisors: Prof. Agacik Zafer & Prof. Marat Akhmet

B.S. in Mathematics (double major), January 2000, METU, Ankara, TURKEY

B.S. in Mathematics Education, January 2000, METU, Ankara, TURKEY

Research Interests:

General: Partial Differential Equations, Calculus of Variations, Analysis, Spectral Theory, Mathematical Finance.
Particular: Eigenvalues Estimates, Fractional Laplacian, Stochastic Models in Finance, Nonlinear Evolution Equations,
Monge- Kantorovich Optimal Mass Transportation Theory, Parabolic PDEs, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems.

Teaching in Spring 2013:

I am teaching MA261 (Multivariate Calculus) with 438 students on MWF from 3:30 till 4:20pm in CL50.

I am also the course coordinator. Please, feel free to ask your questions.

         My office hours in Spring 2013: Monday & Wednesday 1:30-2:30pm

         Past Teaching Experience

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Submitted/Accepted/Published Journal Articles

1. A variational method for a class of parabolic PDEs (with A. Figalli (UT, Texas) , W. Gangbo (Gatech)),
Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. Vol. 10, No. 1,  207-252 (2011)

2. Multidimensional lower bounds for the eigenvalues of Stokes and Dirichlet Laplacian operators (with S. Yildirim Yolcu (Purdue)),
The Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 53, No. 4 (043508), (2012) [17 pages]

3. Bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplacian (with S. Yildirim Yolcu (Purdue)),
Reviews in Mathematical Physics., Vol. 24, No.3, (1250003) (2012) [18 pages]

4. A variational approach to contracting under imperfect observations   (with A. Capponi (Purdue), J. Cvitanic (Caltech)),
SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Vol.3, No.1, 605-638 (2012).

5. Optimal contracting with effort and misvaluation (with A. Capponi (Purdue), J. Cvitanic (Caltech)),
Mathematics and Financial Economics Vol.7, No.1, 93-128 (2013).

6. Estimates for the sums of eigenvalues of the fractional Laplacian on a bounded domain (with S. Yildirim Yolcu (Purdue)),
Communications in Contemporary Mathematics.DOI: 10.1142/S0219199712500484 (2013).

7. Refined bounds for the eigenvalues of the Klein-Gordon operator,
accepted for publication in Proceedings of the AMS in April 2012.

8. Estimates on the eigenvalues of the clamped plate problem on domains in Euclidean space (with S. Yildirim Yolcu (Purdue)),
accepted for publication in The Journal of Mathematical Physics, (March 23, 2013).

9. Exact solution of transient heat transfer equation in cylindrical multilayered annulus, (with I. Kilic, H. Yildirim, R. Sever (METU)), 2012, submitted.

Turkay Yolcu Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Purdue University 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 USAOffice: MATH 726 Email: tyolcu@math.purdue.edu Phone: (765) 494-1948 Fax: (765) 494-0548