You are cordially invited to the ODTU-Bilkent Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Alexander Degtyarev (Bilkent) “800 conics in a smooth quartic surface” Abstract: Generalizing Bauer, define N_{2n}(d) as the maximal number of smooth rational curves of degree d that can lie in a smooth degree-2n K3-surface in P^{n+1}. (All varieties are […]
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PHIL Seminar: “The Loving State”, Adam Lovett, 5.30PM March 2 (EN)
Date: Tuesday March 2, 2021 Time: 1730-1900 Title: The Loving State Speaker: Adam Lovett (NYU, Philosophy) Abstract: I explore the idea that the state should love its citizens. It should not be indifferent towards them. Nor should it merely respect them. It should love them. We begin by looking at […]
LAUD Seminar: “Inclusive Design in Urban Environments”, Prof. Oya Demirbilek, 11.30AM Feburary 23 (EN)
LAUD TALKS: Spring 2020-2021 organized by the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, FADA, Bilkent University. Speaker: Professor Oya Demirbilek Title: “Inclusive Design in Urban Environments” Date & Time: February 23, 2021, Tuesday, 11.30-12.30 Summary: Our world is undergoing rapid quantifiable changes. This talk explores how our urban environments could […]
MATH Seminar: “Shift Operators on Harmonic Hilbert Function Spaces and von Neumann Inequality”, H. Turgay Kaptanoğlu, 1:30PM February 24 (EN)
You are cordially invited to the Analysis Seminar organized by the Department of Mathematics. Speaker: H. Turgay Kaptanoğlu (Bilkent) “Shift Operators on Harmonic Hilbert Function Spaces and von Neumann Inequality” Abstract: The classical von Neumann inequality from 1951 puts an upper bound on the norm of the holomorphic polynomial of […]
MATH Seminar: “Criteria for Complete Intersections”, Mihai Halic, 3:40PM February 24 (EN)
You are cordially invited to the seminar organized by the Department of Mathematics. Speaker: Mihai Halic (Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal, Canada) “Criteria for complete intersections” Abstract: We obtain criteria for detecting complete intersections in projective varieties. Motivated by a conjecture of Hartshorne concerning subvarieties of projective spaces, we investigate […]
THM Seminar: “Restaurant Menu Psychology”, Oğuz Benice, 5:00PM February 24 (EN)
The Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, member of the The Alliance by Institut Paul Bocuse, cordially invite you to the online seminar titled “Restaurant Menu Psychology” by Oğuz Benice, Instructor, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management online on the Zoom on 24 February 2021 at 17:00 (GMT+3). The meeting […]
HIST Seminar: “Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire”, Malte Fuhrmann, 6.00PM February 25 (EN)
You are cordially invited to a seminar titled “Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire” by the Department of History. Date: 25.02.2021, Thursday Time: 18.00 (Ankara Time Zone) Title: Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire Speaker: Malte […]
ME Seminar: “Incompatible Elasticity: Theory and Applications”, Prof. Raz Kupferman, 2.00PM February 26 (EN)
Title: Incompatible elasticity: theory and applications Speaker: Prof. Raz Kupferman Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Date: Friday February 26th Time: 14:00 Zoom Meeting To request the event link, please contact to the department. Abstract: Incompatible elasticity is a term coined in the 1950s to describe the […]
MUS Seminar: “Confessions of an Acousmatic Composer”, Jonty Harrison, 3:30PM February 26 (EN)
Dear Colleagues and Students, You are cordially invited to seminar organized by Bilkent Composition at the Music Department Title: “Confessions of an Acousmatic Composer”. Speaker: Jonty Harrison (Emeritus Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music, University of Birmingham) Date: 26 February 2021, Friday Time: 15:30 – 17:30 Zoom Meeting To request […]
MATH Seminar: “Plectic Structures on Locally Symmetric Varieties”, Tony Scholl, 3:40PM February 26 (EN)
You are cordially invited to the ODTU-Bilkent Algebraic Geometry Seminar Speaker: Tony Scholl (Cambridge) “Plectic structures on locally symmetric varieties” Abstract: In this talk I will discuss a class of locally symmetric complex varieties whose cohomology seems to behave as if they are products, even though they are not. This […]