BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ATAKAN YALÇIN
Irem Demirci, MS in Economics Bilal Erkin Solak
BARIŞ TAN
Ömer Cem Öztürk, Koç University Industrial Engineering, M.S. Thesis (Co-chair) Gönenç Yücel, Boğaziçi University, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Committee Member) Eda Yücel, Koç University Industrial Engineering, M.S. Thesis (Committee Member)
DENİZ AKSEN
Zeynep Özyurt
Ayşe Gönül Tanuğur (co-advised)
EVRİM DİDEM GÜNEŞ
Saadet Hazal Özden, MS IE (co-advisor) Taha Doğru, MS IE (co-advisor)
Eren Başar Çil MS IE (thesis committee)
Selen Rodoplu MA Psychology (thesis committee) Eda Aksoy MA Psychology (thesis committee)
LERZAN AKSOY
Masters Thesis Committee Member for Industrial Engineering Student Hazal Ozden Masters Thesis Committee Member for Psychology Student Tuna Oztekin
METE H. SONER
Selim Gokay ÖZDEN GÜR ALİ
Burak Çavdaroğlu Ayşegül Tunçelli
Müge Sandıkçıoğlu (Fall 2006) SELÇUK KARABATI
Ömer Cem Öztürk, M.Sc. Thesis Co-Supervisor Eda Kaya, M.Sc. Thesis Co-Supervisor
Can Yıldırmaz, M.Sc. Thesis Co-Supervisor SERPİL SAYIN
Thesis Co-Advisor, Ayşegül Tuncelli, MSIE I Thesis Co-Advisor, Can Yıldırmaz, MSIE I Thesis Co-Advisor, EdaKaya, MSIE II
YALÇIN AKÇAY
Canan Uckun - Committe Member (IEOM) Eda Kaya - Committe Member (IEOM)
ZEYNEP AKSİN KARAESMEN
Nesrin Cakan , IEOM MS student (advisor)
Hazal Ozden, IEOM MS student (thesis committee ) Taha Dogru, IEOM First year MS student (co-advisor) Eda Kaya, IEOM MS student (thesis committee)
ECONOMICS İNSAN TUNALI
Lisa Seidman (PhD), Cornell University Emre Ekinci (MA), Koç University
KAMİL YILMAZ
Aslı Şenkal Mehmet Şakirler
KUZEY YILMAZ
Oktay Turkyilmaz SELVA DEMİRALP
Zuhal Isik Salih Erturk SUMRU ALTUĞ Irem Demirci INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AHMET İÇDUYGU
Kadir Onur Unutulmaz (Retirement Migration) Gökce Günel (Politics of Space)
Başak Baykal (Migration and Development) Müge Dane (Citizenship)
BAHAR RUMELİLİ
Hasan Basri Yalcin (Thesis advisor) Sirin Duygulu (Thesis advisor) Gozde Gebelek (Thesis advisor) Banu Senay (secondary advisor) Evren Sasmaz (secondary advisor)
CANER BAKIR
Koray Mutlu Ozge Aytulun Elif Mujen Sencan
DEMET YALÇIN
2
FUAT KEYMAN
Selin Açıkgöz
MICHAEL MOUSSEAU
Hande Ogutcu (1st adviser) Nihat Sengal (2nd adviser)
Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz (2nd adviser) MURAT SOMER
Osman Şahin, primary advisor, M.A. thesis on Middle Class Formation and Democratization: Comparison of Political İslam and Kurds in Turkey
Naci Yılmaz, primary advisor, M.A. thesis on A Third-Way Perspective of European Foreign Policy Gülhan Aygün, primary advisor, M.A. thesis on Democratization in the Middle East
REŞAT BAYER
3 MA committee memberships (2 in Phd programs now) ŞUHNAZ YILMAZ
Supervised three second year graduate students. Two of them as primary and one of them as the secondary advisor. All of them have succesfully completed their MA thesis writing and defense on time.
'European and American Policies over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comparative Perspective: 1993-2003,' Saziye Burcu Giray
'Towards a More Effective EU Conflict Prevention Policy: Lessons from Bosnia and Kosovo,' Nihat Sengul
'Europeanization of Greece and Turkey in Comparative Perspective: The role of Business Associations and Civil Society Organizations,' Izzet Nas
Supervised two first year graduate students. One of them as primary and one of them as secondary advisor. They have turned in their thesis proposals and are currently working on their MA thesis.
Actively participated in the MA student recruitment and selection process as a part of the interview team ZİYA ÖNİŞ
Izzet Nas, Europeanization of Greece and Turkey in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Business Associations and Civil Society Organizations, MA Thesis in International Relations, August 2006
Evrim Altıntaş, Child Labour in Turkey from a Global Perspective: A Case Study of Working Children in Istanbul, MA Thesis in International Relationsi September 2006
Özge Aytulun, Different Forms of Resistance to Neo-liberal Globalization, MA Thesis in International Relations, work in progress.
Devrimsel Nergis, Addressing the New Challenge of Europe: Islamophobia, MA Thesis in International Relations, work in progress.
CHEMISTRY A. LEVENT DEMİREL
Mehdi Yavuz Yüce, MS in Materials Science & Engineering Bürgehan Terlan, MS in Materials Science & Engineering Özlem Tekmek, MS in Materials Science & Engineering
FUNDA YAĞCI ACAR
Miray Demirer Serdar Çelebi Özlem Tekmek
İSKENDER YILGÖR
Seda ÇAKIR - Preparation and structure-property behavior of segmented, highly branched polyurethaneureas Bora İNCİ - Preparation and structure-property behavior of segmented polyureas with uniform hard segments
MEHMET SOMER
Umut Aydemir Aslihan Kircali Selcuk Arca
HISTORY ALICIA JOSEPHINE SIMPSON
(ACHM) Ayse Dilsiz, 'The Byzantine Heritage of Istanbul: Resource or Burden' graduation: Feb. 2007 (ACHM) Maximilian Hartmuth, 'The Ottoman Balkans' graduation: Feb 2007
CAROLYN ASLAN
Günşıl Kılıç Fernanda Araujo Ipek Yeginsu
GÜL PULHAN
Four master theses supervision and one co-advising of a master's thesis. LUCIENNE THYS-ŞENOCAK
Aysegul Erdogan, Carla Masinari, Gunsil Kilic ( co-advisor) ( ACHM program Koc University Caner Guney, ITU Geodesy PhD ( co-supervisor),
Yelda Alemoglu, ITU Geodesy MA ( co-Supervisor) NORMAN STONE
2 MA's in Bİlkent 1 PhD in Bilkent
YONCA KÖKSAL
Şaziye Burcu Giray Gülhan Aygün
MATHEMATICS ALİ MOSTAFAZADEH
Seher Özçelik (MS Student, Math. Dept. KU) Graduated in June 2006 Ahmet Batal (MS Student, Math. Dept. KU)
Farhad Zamani (Ph.D. Student, Physics Dept., IASBS, Zanjan, Iran) Hossein Mehri-Dehnavi (Ph.D. Student, Physics Dept., IASBS, Zanjan, Iran)
ALİ ÜLGER
1- Merve Kovan. Thesis Title: Homomorphisms between group algebras. 2- Abdullah Sanver: Thesis Title: Rosenthal's l1-Theorem.
EMİNE ŞULE YAZICI
Emre Kolotoğlu (MS Koc University) Çiçek Güven (MS Koc University)
Güven Yücetürk (MS Koc University graduated in 2005) MİNE ÇAĞLAR
Emrah Ahi (CMSE second year student)
Ali Alagöz (CMSE second year student, graduated in Summer 2006) Taylan Bilal (CMSE first year student)
Zeynep Akcay (Mathematics first year graduate student) SELDA KÜÇÜKÇİFÇİ
G. Yücetürk, Ms. student, Koç University Ç. Güven, Ms. student, Koç University E. Kolotoğlu, Ms. student, Koç University
TOLGA ETGÜ
Mustafa Topkara, Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (Committee Member) Elif Yılmaz, Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (Committee Member) Sinem Çelik, Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (Committee Member) Elif Medetoğulları, Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (Committee Member) Taylan Bilal, M.Sc. candidate in Mathematics, Koc University
TOMA ALBU
Supervisor of Bilge Sipal (Koc University), with the M.Sc. Thesis ''The Artin-Wedderburn Theorem with Applications'', begun in Fall 2004, but the student failed in Spring 2006
Supervisor of Gabriel Mincu (Bucharest University), with the Ph. D. Thesis ''The Distribution of Prime Numbers'', begun in Fall 2003, to be defended in 2008
VARGA KALANTAROV
Türker Özsarı (Koç University) ' Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation' PHYSICS ALİ SERPENGÜZEL
Onur Akatlar, M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, September 2006, “Rainbow Enhanced Elastic Scattering of Gaussian Beams in Infrared Wavelengths,” Koç University. Advisor: Ali Serpengüzel.
Ulas Kemal Ayaz, M.S. in Physics, Bogaziçi University September 2006, “Microsphere based sensor” Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Co-advisors: Gülen Aktas and Ali Serpengüzel.
Sinan Fındık, M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering, September 2006, “Applications of Microspheres as Microfluidic Detectors,” Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. Advisor: Ali Serpengüzel.
ALKAN KABAKÇIOĞLU
Murat Tugrul Nese Aral
Baris Avsaroglu (co-advisor) ALPER KİRAZ
Şennur Turgut (M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, graduated in August 2006, Thesis Supervisor) Mehmet Ali Dündar (M.S. in Physics, expected to graduate in 2007, Thesis Supervisor)
Huseyin Çankaya (M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, graduated in August 2006, Member of the Thesis Committee) Ümit Demirbaş (M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, graduated in June 2006, Member of the Thesis Committee) İbrahim Büküşoğlu (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, graduated in September in 2006, Member of the Thesis Committee) Ata Akatay (M.S. in Electrical Engineering, graduated in September 2006, Member of the Thesis Committee)
ALPHAN SENNAROĞLU
Hamit Kalaycioglu, PhD candidate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Umit Demirbas, MS in Materials Science and Eng., graduated in Summer 2006. Huseyin Cankaya, MS in Materials Science and Eng., graduated in Summer 2006 Serhat Tozburun, 2-year MS student in Physics
Ahmet Koray Erdamar, 2-year MS student in Physics
Co-advisor of Idris Kabalci, ITU Physics PhD program, graduated in Spring 2006 Reyhane Kilci, new MS student in Physics, starting in Fall 2006.
NİHAT BERKER Aykut Erbaş Can Güven C. Nadir Kaplan Başak Renklioğlu ÖZGÜR MÜSTECAPLIOĞLU
Devrim Tarhan, Ph.D. in Physics, 'Quantum coherent effects on linear and nonlinear pulse propagation through Bose- Einstein condensates', Istanbul Technical University, (co-supervisor:N. Postacioglu).
Turan Birol, M.S. in Physics, “Symmetry breaking and quantum decoherence in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate”, Koç University, (co-supervisor: Tekin Dereli)
TEKİN DERELİ
C&SE MS Thesis : Bloch Vector Formalism for Quantum Computation (Ahmet Tuna Bölükbaşı) (July 2006) Physics MS Thesis: Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates (Turan Birol) (Ongoing)
Mathematics MS Thesis: Newton-Schrödinger Equations (Habiba Kalantorova) (Ongoing) PSYCHOLOGY
AYLİN KÜNTAY
Ayfer Dost (Advisor) The Relationship between self construals and language for emotions in personal narratives of Turkish males and females
Özge Altan (Thesis committee, Advisor: Bilge Yağmurlu The effects of maternal socialization and temperament on children’s emotion
Tuğçe Kurtiş (Advisor) Self-silencing and depression in women
Bengi Mizrahi (Thesis commitee, Advisor: Deniz Yüret) Paraphrase extraction from parallel news corpora
Burcu Demiray (Thesis committee, Advisor: Sami Gülgöz) Reminiscence bump in timeline: Support for novelty, significance for personality development, life scripts and distinctiveness
Sinem Olcay (Thesis committee, Advisor: Bilge Yağmurlu ) Parenting practices and preschoolers’ cognitive skills in Turkish immigrant and German families
Duygu Çakırsoy (Thesis committee, Advisor: Cigdem Kagitcibasi)
Jale Kazez (Thesis committe, Advisor: Sami Gülgöz) The developmental progress and the emergence of autobiographical memory
BİLGE SELÇUK YAĞMURLU
Elif S. Durgel - (as advisor) Sociocultural Influences on German and Turkish Immigrant Mothers’ Beliefs Regarding Long- Term Socialization Goals
Sinem Olcay - (as advisor) Relations between parenting practices and executive processes in Turkish immigrant and German preschoolers
Ozge Altan - (as advisor) The role of emotion regulation and behavior regulation in children’s externalizing behaviors Guneri Tuncer (as committee member)
ÇİĞDEM KAĞITÇIBAŞI
Thesis Supervision: Banu Hantal, Öykü Büyükdere, Ayşe Duygu Çakırsoy, Suzi Levi
Advisor: Funda Nur Akay, Doli Aseo, Şirin Ezgi Eraltan, Ayşe Candan, Berna Akçınar,Şule Öztürk, Tuğçe Kurtiş, Tuğba Uzer, Lerzan Coşkun.
SAMİ GÜLGÖZ
Jale Kazez, thesis advisor Burcu Demiray, thesis advisor Neslihan Turnalar, thesis advisor Tuğba Uzer, thesis advisor
Selen Rodoplu, thesis committee member Yasemin Kisbu, thesis committee member Ayşe Tever, thesis committee member
Ayça Orer, thesis committee member, Boğaziçi University Ayça Karaca, thesis committee member, Boğaziçi University
TARCAN KUMKALE
Irem Gokcel (Thesis advisor) ZEYNEP AYCAN Tuna Öztekin Aslı Göncü Soner Dumani Selin Derya Gamze Arman ZEYNEP CEMALCILAR
Ayşegül Ertüreten (Advisor)
Aslı Göncü, (Thesis committe member) Neslihan Turnalar (Thesis committe member)
SOCIOLOGY FATOŞ GÖKŞEN
Neslihan Turnalar Duygu Arı
Arzu Batmaz (Boğaziçi University) HATİCE DENİZ YÜKSEKER
Evrim Altintas, IR MA student: I was a member of her thesis jury and very closely advised her. JEFFREY DIXON
NAZLI BAYDAR
MA student Evlin Rafe completed her degree MA student Deniz Demir completed her degree
MA student Banu Hantal will complete her degree in December. MA student Lerzan Coskun started thesis work in June.
CORE TİMUR KOCAOĞLU
Advisor for Tümen Somuncuoglu (Gazi University) Ph.D in History