Cihan Okay

Ongoing

• FoQaCiA Summer School, 3-13 July 2023
• Open positions for postdocs and opportunities for graduate students
• Bilkent Quantum Computing and Topology Seminars, Spring 2023

Research

My research is on the mathematics of quantum computing specializing in applications of methods from algebraic topology, representation theory, and polyhedral combinatorics to quantum foundations and computing. I am currently involved in two projects supported by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-21-1-0002) and the European Union (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, FoQaCiA). For more information see Bilkent Quantum Computing and Topology.

• Papers & preprints

Postdocs

• Igor Sikora (Sep 2022 - present), Ph.D. Mathematics (2022), University of Warwick
• Selman Ipek (Oct 2021 - present), Ph.D. Physics (2021), University at Albany - SUNY
• Aziz Muhammad Kharoof (Oct 2021 - present), Ph.D. Mathematics (2019), University of Haifa
• Ho Yiu Chung (Sep 2021 - Feb 2023), Ph.D. Mathematics (2020), University of Southampton

Teaching

• Math 422/522 - Topics in Quantum Information Theory, Bilkent, Spring 2023
• Math 421/521 - Introduction to quantum computation, Bilkent, Fall 2022
• 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

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