Cihan Okay
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Bilkent University
Office: SA-140
Tel: +90 (312) 290 2103
CV
Ongoing
- I am hiring postdocs, for details see here.
- I am organizing the weekly Bilkent Topology Seminar, Spring 2022
- Visit here for the webpage of the math graduate seminar
Research
My research is on mathematics of quantum information specializing on applications of methods from algebraic topology, representation theory and polyhedral combinatorics to quantum foundations and computing.
See Bilkent Quantum Information and Topology
for more on my research.
Postdocs
- Igor Sikora (Sept 2022), Ph.D. Mathematics (2022), University at Sheffield
- Selman Ipek (Oct 2021 - present), Ph.D. Physics (2021), University at Albany - SUNY
- Aziz Muhammad Kharoof (Oct 2021 - present), Ph.D. Pure Mathematics (2019), University of Haifa
- Ho Yiu Chung (Sept 2021 - present), Ph.D. Pure Mathematics (2020), University of Southampton
Students supervised
Ph.D.
- Daniel Sheinbaum, Ph.D. February 2020, Title: Applications and Connections between Twisted Equivariant K-theory, Quantum Mechanics and Condensed Matter, co-supervised by Alejandro Adem
Undergraduate
- Melin Okandan, Undergraduate senior project, Spring 2022, Title: Unital quantum channels; and Fall 2021, Title: Basic properties of quantum channels
- Ecem Ilgun , Undergraduate summer project, Summer 2021, Title: Introduction to quantum contextuality
- Oussama Amir , Undergraduate senior project, Fall 2020, Title: Algebraic aspects of symmetric informationally complete measurements
Teaching
- Math 102 - Calculus II, Bilkent, Spring 2022
- Math 101 - Calculus I, Bilkent, Fall 2021
- Math 421/521 - Introduction to quantum computation, Bilkent, Spring 2021
- Math 101 - Calculus I, Bilkent, Fall 2020
- Math 9144A - Homological algebra, UWO, Fall 2016
- Calculus 1000a , UWO, Fall 2014