A. Muhammed Uludag;

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A. Muhammed Uludağ
	Galatasaray University
	Department of Mathematics
	Ciragan Cad. No.36, Besiktas, Istanbul, 34357 Turkey
	Telephone: + 90 212 227 44 80 - 462
	g-mail: muhammed.uludag Vita Publications--see below

	Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. 1997--2000, Ph. D. Mathematics
	Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. 1996--1997, DEA Mathematics
	Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994--1996, M.S. Mathematics
	Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989--1994, B.S. Mathematics
	Ankara Fen Lisesi, Ankara, Turkey, 1986--1989, High School Diploma

	(Co-editor) Aritmetic and Geometry Around Galois Theory GTEM Summer School, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, 2009 Intended for: Progress in Mathematics, Birkhauser P. Debes, M . Emsalem, M. Romagny, A. M. Uludag (Eds) (to appear)
	(Co-editor) Arrangements & Local Systems and Singularities Lecture Notes of a CIMPA Summer School, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, 2007 Series: Progress in Mathematics , Vol. 283 Birkhauser F. ElZein, A. Suciu, M.Tosun, A.M. Uludag, S. Yuzvinsky (Eds) 2010, ISBN: 978-3-0346-0208-2
	KİTAP'tan Deliller (translator) Proofs From The Book by Martin Aigner and Gunter M. Ziegler (Appeared in March 2009: Bilgi University Publications ) Turkish Academy of Sciences award in 2010
	Smooth finite abelian uniformizations of projective spaces and Calabi-Yau orbifolds, Manuscripta Matematica, 124 (2007) No.1 31-44
	OSS Sinavi uzerine -- E. D. Hirsh on bubble tests A critique (in Turkish) of the university entrance exam in Turkey (2008) Published: here
	Orbifolds and their uniformization, lecture note, appeared in the following book.
	(Co-editor) Arithmetic and Geometry Around Hypergeometric Functions Lecture Notes of a CIMPA Summer School held at Galatasaray University, Istanbul, 2005 Series: Progress in Mathematics , Vol. 260 Holzapfel, Rolf-Peter; Uludag, Muhammed; Yoshida, Masaaki (Eds.)
	Galois Coverings of the plane by K3 surfaces, Kyushu Journal of Mathematics Vol. 59 (2005) , No. 2 393-419
	Covering relations between ball-quotient orbifolds, Mathematische Annalen 308, No.3 (2004) 503-523.
	On Branched Galois Coverings of P^n by products of discs, International Journal of Mathematics 4 10 (2003) 1025-1037.
	Fundamental groups of some quadric-line arrangements, (with Amram, M. and Teicher, M.) Topology and its Applications 130, 2 (2003) 159-173
	More Zariski pairs and finite fundamental groups of plane curve complements, Manuscripta Math. 106 3 (2001) 271-277.
	On Fenchel's problem in the projective plane, (not published)
	Existence of Green function and bounded harmonic functions on Galois covers of Riemannian Manifolds, Osaka J. Math. 38, no 2 (2001).
	Ph. D. Thesis Fundamental groups of a family of rational cuspidal plane curves Institut Fourier, Grenoble (2000)
	On possible deterioration of smoothness under the operation of convolution, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 227, (1998) 335-358.
	On possible deterioration of smoothness under the operation of convolution, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t.322, serie I, (1996) 173-178.