Meral Tosun

Associate Professor

Galatasaray University

Department of Mathematics

Ciragan Cad. No.36, 34357 Istanbul, Turkey

Telephone: + 90 212 227 44 80 - 464

e-mail: mtosun|at|gsu.edu.tr

 


Research Interests
Singularities in algebraic geometry, resolution and deformations of singularities, topology of singularities, classification of singularities and Lie algebras. Toric geometry. Tropical geometry.


Research Experience

› DEA mathematics Université Paris VII, Paris, France. June 1994

› Ph.D. mathematics Université d'Aix-Marseille I, Marseille, France. March 1998.

  Advisor: Prof. Lê Dũng Tráng.

› Postdoctoral fellowship, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

› Postdoctoral fellowship, Instituto de Mathematicas UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

› Part-time research fellowship, Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey.

› Assistant Professor, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

› Associate Professor, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey.


Teaching/Enseignement

› Calculus I-II, Linear algebra, Introduction to algebraic geometry, Ideals - varieties and algorithms, Groups and geometry, Algebraic curves, Analytic geometry.


Publications/Preprints

› Construction of simple elliptic singularities of type \tilde D_5 and generalization of Slodowy slices, (with K. Nakamoto)

  Submitted for publication.

Simple singularities and simple Lie algebras, , (with Lê D. T.)

  TWMS Jour. Pure Appl. Math. V.2, N.1, 2011, pp. 97-111.

› Invariants of open books of links of surface singularities, (with A. Nemethi)

  Studia Sci. Mat. Hungarica, 48 (1), 2011, pp. 135-144.

› Co-editor Arrangements and Local Systems, and Singularities, Birkhauser Progress in Mathematics, Vol.283

  Edited by F.Elzein, A.Suciu, M.Tosun, A.M.Uludag, S.Yuzvinsky, 2010.

› Generators of the semigroup of Lipman of positive divisors, (with S.Altinok)

  Bull. Braz. Math.Soc, New series, 39 no. 1-13, (2008).

› Semi-universal deformations of some simple elliptic singularities, (with K.Nakamoto)
  Comptes Rendus Math., vol. 345, Issue 1, 2007, pp. 31-34.

Toric varieties associated with weighted graphs, (with S.Altinok)
  Int. Mathematical Forum, 2006.

› Classification of rational singularities of multiplicity 5, (with Z.Oer and A.Ozkan)
  Int. J. of Pure and Appl. Mathematics vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 85-110, 2007.

Some surface singularities obtained via Lie algebras, (with K.Nakamoto)
  Proceedings of the Trieste Singularity Summer School (2005),
  Singularities in Geometry and Topology.

ADE singularities, chambers and toric varieties,
  Proceedings of Franco-Japanese CIRM, Soc. Math. de France, Sèminaire et Congrés 10, 2005.

› Combinatorics of rational surface singularities, (with Lê D. T.)
  Comment. Math. Helv. 79 (3), 2004.

Tyurina components and rational cycles for rational singularities,
  Turkish J. of Math. Volume 23 (3), 1999.

› Arbres associès aux singularités rationnelles,
  C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris t.329 Sèrie I, 1999.

› PhD. Thesis
  Singularités rationelles des surfaces

 


Invited Talks


Students

› Ayse Altintas (MSc Thesis on Geometry of Toric Varieties). She is now at.

› Emel Bilgin (MSc Thesis on A Theorem of Katz). She is now at.

› Gulen Cevik (MSc Thesis on A Resolution of Some Non-isolated Hypersurface Singularities, ongoing)


Organised Workshops

Fonktorsellik ve Eslesme, Speaker: R.P. Langlands (March-April 2011)

› History of Mathematics I-II, Speaker: R.P. Langlands (June 2003, May 2004)

Workshop on Singularity Theory (June 2001)

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Mathématiques à FIT
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