History

Theoretical Physics	Physics
1960-1966	Erdal İnönü	1960-1969	Adnan Şaplakoğlu
1966-1968	Ferit Öktem
1968-1969	Feza Gürsey
1969-1970	Cengiz Yalçın	1969-1970	Perihan Tolun

Physics
1970-1973	Hakkı Öğelman
1973-1978	Cengiz Yalçın
1978-1983	Mehmet Tomak
1983-1987	Cengiz Yalçın
1987-1988	Dilhan Eryurt (Ezer)
1988-1993	Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu
1993-1996	Mehmet Tomak
1996-2011	Sinan Bilikmen
2012-2016	Mehmet Zeyrek
2016-2017	Sadi Turgut (vekaleten)
2017-2021	Altuğ Özpineci

Research Field	Date	Initiated by
Neutron Transport	1960	Erdal Inönü
High Energy Physics	1966	Feza Gürsey
Radio Carbon (C-14)	1966	Keban Project (Kemal Kurdas)
Experimental High Energy Physics	1966	Perihan Tolun
Atomic Beam	1968	Adnan Şaplakoğlu
Nuclear Theory	1968	Cengiz Yalçın
Solid State Physics	1967	Cavit Erginsoy
Semiconductor Technology	1968	Mehmet Rona
Astrophysics	1970	Hakki Ögelman
Mathematical Physics	1970	Ferit Öktem
Plasma Physics	1972	Ordal Demokan
Theoretical Astrophysics	1973	Dilhan Eryurt (Ezer)
Solar Energy	1974	Hakki Ögelman
Atmospheric Physics	19--	Yurdanur Tulunay
Laser Physics	1980	Ramazan Aydin

1962	First astronomy courses were given by Bedri Süer in the Department of Mathematics
1966-1968	High Energy Lab. has been formed by Perihan Tolun
1968-1969	Dilhan Ezer (Eryurt) and Paris Pismis visited Department of Physics and started giving astrophysics courses.
1968-1969	Atomic Beam lab was developed by Adnan Şaplakoğlu, Howard Shugart, Tuncay İncesu, Ateş Tezer, Erol Aygün and Atilla Özmen. In 1969, The Atomic Beam Machine has been designed and constructed in the machine shop of the department. The chief technician Hasan Ataizi played a very major role. Howard Shugart from Berkeley also helped in the process.
1968	Mehmet Aydın developed Mössbauer system for research purposes.
1968	After Nuclear Physics has been initiated Nuray Büget, Ahmet Gökalp, Aydın Kolat and Ertan Akşahin were involved into the subject.
1969-	After High Energy Physics has been initiated Suha Gursey, Meral Serdaroğlu, Avadis Hacınliyan, Metin Durgut, Mehmet Koca, Cihan Saçlıoğlu and Hüseyin Akçay were involved into the subject.
1970	Yeter Göksu and Mustafa Özbakan started the work in C-14 Lab.
1971-	After Mathematical Physics group has been initiated, Yavuz Nutku, Metin Gürses, Rahmi Güven, Ahmet Eriş, Tekin Dereli, Selçuk Bayın and Yurdahan Güler were involved into the subject.
1972	Plasma Physics Lab. was founded by Ordal Demokan.
1972-1980	After the completion of department's twin buildings, teaching labs; general physics, optics, electronics, nuclear physics, modern physics were settled down. Tuncay Incesu, Gülay Öke, Atilla Özmen, Esen Özsan, Ziya Sümengen, Yurdanur Tulunay, Ümit Kiziloglu, Erdogan Apaydin, Ahmet Ecevit and Sinan Bilikmen contributed great deal in the process.
1973	Theoretical astrophysics gained momentum from Jean Swank and Halil Kırbıyık. High Energy Astrophysics has been established by Hakkı Öğelman, Tümay Tümer, Ed Utiger, Ümit Kızıloğlu, İlhami Yeğingil and Mehmet Emin Özel.
1974-1984	After Neutron Transport group has been initiated Ali İmre Usseli and Cevdet Tezcan were involved into the subject.
1975	Solar Energy lab was founded by Hakkı Ögelman and Ahmet Ecevit.
1975-1980	Semiconductor Technology lab gained momentum. Ziya Sümengen, Mehmet Rona, Hüsnü Özkan and Ersin Özsan played an important role in the begining.
1975	The first computer, INTERDATA, was ordered by Ed Utiger. The first computer room was established by Ed Utiger, Ümit Kiziloglu, Faruk Tokdemir. The computer was upgraded in 1978.
1975-	After Condensed Matter has been initiated Mehmet Tomak, Salim Çıracı Şakir Erkoç, Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu, Atilla Erçelebi and Cemal Yalabık were involved into the subject.
1979-	After Plasma Physics group has been initiated Serhat Çakır, Gülay Öke and Sinan Bilikmen were involved into the subject.
19--	After Atmospheric Physics has been initiated Gülay Öke, Erdogan Apaydın and Davut Köşker were involved into the subject.
1980-1985	Semiconductor Technology Lab, with the great contributions of Bayram Katırcıoğlu, İbrahim Günal and Çiğdem Erçelebi, gained momentum and reached its present recognition as one of the distinguished solid state research facility in the country.
1980	Thermoluminescence Lab. was developed by Naif Türetken.
1980	ESR Lab. was developed by Ay Melek Özer.
1986	The first PC was bought.
1991	A small observatory was built on campus with the support of Dilhan Eryurt-Ezer, Halil Kırbıyık and Ümit Kızıloğlu. Ali Alpar joined the astrophysics group.
1991-1992	Departmental and Faculty network and Banyan server was founded. The first UNIX cluster (newton and others) was established. The first student computing lab was established: 16 PCs with 286 CPU.
19--	Selective Surface Lab was founded by Ahmet Ecevit and Bülent Akınoğlu.

Usseli, Ali Imre.	"A connection between absorption and the anisotropy of scattering in neutron transport theory." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. İnönü.	1967
Koca, Mehmet.	"Special topics in strong inteactions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Feza Gürsey.	1971
Akçay, Hüseyin.	"Current algebra, the Veneziano model and nuclear eletromagnetic structure functions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Feza Gürsey.	1971
Önengüt, Gülsen.	"A measurement of the magnetic moment of the lamba hyperon." Supervisor: Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1972
Aygün, Erol.	"Precision measurement of the gj-factor of HE4 in the 23S1 metastable state." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Howard A. Shugart.	1973
İncesu, Tuncay.	"Studies of the dissociation fragments of N2/5 and the gj measurement of metastable S2 atomic oxygen." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Howard A. Shugart.	1974
Öke, Gülay.	"Absorption mechanisms in a highly ionized plasma." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. A. M. Ferendeci.	1974
Erdem, Ali Ünal.	"A nonlocal micromorphic theory of nonlinear anisotropic and linear isotropic elastic dielectrics." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Murat Dikmen.	1975
Gürses, Metin.	"Kerr-Schild geometry and string in general relativity." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Feza Gürsey.	1975
Özmen, Atilla.	"Precision measurement of the ground state gj of atomic lithium." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Howard Shugart.	1976
Güven, Rahmi.	"Hertzian gravitational potentials for type D vacuum space-times." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yavuz Nutku.	1976
Eriş, Ahmet.	"Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds and Einstein field equations of gravitation." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Yavuz Nutku.	1976
Tezcan, Cevdet.	"Variational applications in the kinetic theory of gases and some new results in the transport theory of neutrons." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A.İ. Usseli.	1976
Dereli, Tekin.	"Fermions in Yang-Mills potentials." Supervisor: Dr. L.J. Swank.	1976
Güler, Yurdahan.	"Unitary analytic representations of SL(3,R) and Regge trajectories." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Koca.	1977
Özel, M. Emin.	"Satellite observations of diffuse cosmic gamma rays above 35 MEV." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Hakkı Ögelman.	1977
Halil, Mustafa.	"Colliding gravitational waves in general relativity." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Y. Nutku.	1977
Yeğingil, İlhami.	"Investigation of atomic sodium in the upper atmosphere using o poly etalon pressure swept interferometric optical spectrometer." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hakkı B. Ögelman.	1978
Kızıloğlu, Ümit.	"An automated photomultiplier system for detecting atmospheric scintillation pulses of cosmic origin." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hakkı B. Ögelman.	1978
Sever, Ramazan.	"Pion-nucleus interactions; multiplicity distributions and search for charmed particles." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1978
Ayaslı, Serpil.	"Production of gamma rays in pulsars." Supervisor:s Prof. Dr. Hakkı Ögelman, Assoc. Prof. Dr.Avadis Hacınlıyan.	1978
İbrahim, Aysel.	"The structure and stability of the first generation stars of M. and M. on the zero-age main sequence." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dilhan Eryurt-Ezer.	1978
Ecevit, Ahmet.	"A linear parabolic solar energy collector." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hakkı B. Ögelman.	1979
Güloğlu, İsmail Şuayip.	"A characterization of the simple Group He." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr.Ali Osman Asar.	1979
Akşahin, Ertan.	"Charge asymmetric three-nucleon potential." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cengiz Yalçın.	1979
Tatlı, Ali.	"Ultrasonic investigation of the variation of the elastic properties of tourmalines with structure, composition and temperature." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. Özkan.	1980
Erçelebi, Atilla.	"Acoustic deformation potential interaction in the polaron problem." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. M. Rona.	1980
Özdinçer, Ugur.	"ADP excitonic polaron." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. M. Rona.	1981
Özbakan, Mustafa.	"Carbon-14 measurements of dendrochronolog-ically dated wood samples from the Anatolian Plateau." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hakkı B. Ögelman.	1982
Günal, İbrahim.	"Electrical properties of CdS thin films and Te-CdS schottky diodes." Supervisor: Dr. M.E. Özsan.	1982
Kolat, Aydın.	"Internal symmetry breaking in NN-interaction." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cengiz Yalçın.	1982
Kızıloglu, Nilgün.	"A study of solar models and neutrino problem." Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Dilhan Eryurt-Ezer.	1982
Yıldız, Cemal.	"The criticality problems in neutron transport theory for extremely anisotropic scattering Kernels." Supervisor: Assoc.Prof. Dr. C. Tezcan.	1984
Tuncay, Çağlar.	"Impurities in semiconductors." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1984
Aydın, Meral.	"Critical dynamics of the three state Potts model." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Cemal Yalabık.	1984
Savcı, Mustafa.	"General nonlinear realization of chiral SU(2) & SU(2) symmetry in curves isospin space." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. Abdul Ebrahim.	1984
Özkara, Necati.	"Premian sequence evolution of a 4M star including rotation." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dilhan Eryurt-Ezer.	1984
Erçelebi, Çiğdem.	"Electrical and photo-elctrical properties on n-Cds/CuS and n-Cds/p-Si heterojunction devices and solar cells." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ersin Özsan.	1985
Bilge, Ayşe Hümeyra.	"Cartan ideal, prolongation and backlund transformations for Einsteins equations." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. Tekin Dereli.	1985
Tokdemir, Faruk.	"Analysis of Ultraviolet spectra of an RS CVn type system AR Lacertae." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ümit Kızıloğlu.	1985
Erbarut, Erkan.	"Localized orbital description of electronic band structures, alloys, vacancies in semiconductors." Supervisor: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1986
Uzun, Ali.	"World R and D activity: a comparative evaluation of publication output vs economic and demographic indicators." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cengiz Yalçın.	1986
Çakır, Serhat.	"Numerical simulations of Artificial triggering of equatorial spread F." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Haerendel.	1987
Dereli, Gülay.	"Computer simulation of the structure of amorphous silicon using Monte Carlo technique." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu.	1987
El Hasan, Musa.	"Description of the elctronic structure of solids by the recursion method." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1987
Yılmaz, Tuğrul.	"Quantization of chiral solitonic bag model and application to nucleons." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1987
Çelikel, F.Rikkat.	"Evolution of a rotating component star." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dilhan Eryurt-Ezer.	1987
Katırcıoğlu, Şenay.	"Two dimensional systems in solid state physics." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu.	1987
Karasu, Atalay.	"Stationary, Axi-symmetric Einstein Field Equations in Higher Dimensions: Harmonic Mappings ,Uniqueness of Solutions and Inverse Scattering Transform Technique." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet Eriş.	1988
Khajil, Tayel Mohammad Ali.	"The transport and thermodynamical properties of liquid metals." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1988
Beler, Ahmet Aytaç.	"Plane waves in supergravity." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli.	1988
Goshtasbpour, Mehrdad.	"Anomaly in the chiral Schwinger model and freedom in Fujikawas regularizing operator." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1988
Akınoğlu, Bülent G.	"Comparison and discussion of sunshine-based models and construction of a new model to estimate the global solar radiation." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ecevit.	1989
Üçoluk, Göktürk.	"An exterior calculus package for REDUCE and dimensional reduction of generalised theories of gravity." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli.	1989
Başkal, Sibel.	"Gravitational radiation." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ferit Öktem.	1989
Karagöz, Nurettin.	"Confined dirac propagation for hybrid chiral bag model and neutron-proton mass difference." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1989
Esendemir, Akif.	"Analysis of II Pegasus RS Canum Venaticorum binary system." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ümit Kızıloğlu.	1989
Alev, H.Murat.	"Analysis of ultraviolet spectra of contact binary systems W UMA, VW CEP and 44i BOO." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ümit Kızıloğlu.	1989
Karasu (Kalkanlı), E.Ayşe.	"Colliding Abelian gauge plane waves." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet Eriş.	1990
Yılmaz, Osman.	"The magnetic moments, B-decay rates and elastic magnetic form factors of light-nuclei." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr. Ahmet Gökalp.	1990
Al-Shariah, Adnan M.	"Analysis of laminar natural convective heat transfer in a triangular enclosure." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ahmet Ecevit.	1990
El-Said, Mohammad Khalil.	"Properties of shallow impurities in quantum wells and wires." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1990
Kabak, Yahya.	"Explicit expression for growth rates in free-electron lasers with helical and axial magnetic fields." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ordal Demokan.	1991
Akçağ, Şükrü.	"Space-times with a curvature from admitting a field of null eigenvectors." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferit Öktem.	1990
Zeyrek, Mehmet T.	"Large Xf inclusive ^ production at the Cern SppS collider." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1991
Asghari-s, Mahmoud.	"Isotopic-spin impurity in alpha particle." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cengiz Yalçın.	1991
Ikhdair, Sameer Musbah.	"Study of quark-antiquark bound states of relativistic wave equations using the shifted 1/N expansion technique." Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Ramazan Sever.	1992
Erdem, Recai.	"Constraint on the number of quark generations through mass matrices." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1991
Rhimi, Mohamed Nazih.	"Cold plasma-bunched beam interaction plasma wake field accelerator case." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	1991
Ilaiwi, Khaled Faisal.	"Photoionization and polarization of electrons in bulk low-dimensional semiconductors." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1991
Alaçakır, Ali.	"Design and construction of a laser induced resonance fluorescence spectrometer and calculation of intermediate coupling constants of Ca I, Ti I, Cr I, and Fe I." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ramazan Aydın.	1991
Omar, Mustafa.	"An approach to the shifted 1/N expansion method and some applications." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ramazan Sever.	1991
Baykal, Altan.	"Torque noise models for x-ray binaries." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ümit Kızıloğlu.	1991
Mutlugil, Bülent.	"Production and electrical characterization of metal and polysilicon gata MOS structures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bayram Katırcıoğlu.	1992
Ikhdair, Sameer Musbah.	"Study of quark-antiquark bound states of relativistic wave equations using the shifted 1/N expansion technique." Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Ramazan Sever.	1992
Barakat, Thabit Abdullfattah.	"Isospin vidation in baryons and the E-Ec mass difference." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cengiz Yalçın.	1992
Serin-Zeyrek, Meltem.	"Vm - Ve Oscillation search in CHARM-II experiment at CERN." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1992
Mufleh, Eqab Mahmoud Rabei.	"An investigation of the Hamiltonian formulation of singular systems." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yurdahan Güler.	1992
Jaber, Imad Bakr.	"Explicit expressions for growth rates in free-electron lasers with electromagnetic wiggler and axial magnetic field." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ordal Demokan.	1992
El Kawni, Marwan İzzat.	"Eletcronic properties of semiconductor heterpjunctions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1992
Chaikh Wais, Mohamad Adnan.	"A numerical and experimental study on convection heat transfer in a trapezoidal enclosure." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ecevit.	1992
Saqqa, Bassam.	"The properties of the confined polaron." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uğur Özdinçer.	1992
Fakioğlu, Turgut.	"Quantization of HCBM and triplet axial vector current coupling constant." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1992
Shannes, M Hossein.	"Charge symmetry-breaking in nucleon-nucleon interactions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cengiz Yalçın.	1993
Kökten, Hatice.	"A tight-binding model of chemisorption on perovskite surfaces." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu.	1993
Küçük, İbrahim.	"The Pre-main sequence evolutionary models of low mass stars in the mass range 0.30 M. - 0.60 M." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dilhan Eryurt-Ezer.	1993
Abu-Safa, Mustafa Abdulmajeed.	"Chaotic quadrupole free-electron laser." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	1993
Atılgan, İsmail.	"Preparation and characterization of silicon thin films." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Bayram Katırcıoğlu.	1993
El-bayyari, Zuheir Subhi.	"Molecular-dynamics computer simulation of aluminum: bulk, surface,and cluster properties." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. şakir Erkoç.	1993
Hamdan, Nasser.	"Effect of temperature and irradiation on the properties of the bismuth-based superconductors." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Özkan.	1993
Omar, Ahmad Yousef.	"Chaos in electromagnetically pumped free-electron laser with a guide magnetic field." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	1993
Turan, Gürsevil.	"Rare B-meson decays in the non-standard perspective." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. T.M. Aliev.	1994
Satır, Ahmet.	"Generalized local symmetries of the SO(2,1) invariant nonlinear sigma model." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1994
Iltan, Erhan Onur.	"The radiative B* and D* meson decays in the framework of the QCD sum rules." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1994
Özder, Serhat.	"Investigation of SiO /p-Si structure by DLTS and various admittance techniques." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Bayram Katırcıoğlu.	1994
Farhat, Nasser Ismail.	"A treatment of singular Lagrangians as field systems and Hamiltonian treatment of a relativistic particle." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yurdahan Güler.	1994
Çetin, Oktay.	"Models of the g = 20006 electron spin resonance (ESR) signal growth curve in carbonates." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ay Melek Özer.	1994
Mamıkoğlu, Habibe.	"Investigation of thin film CdS/CdTe heterojunction devices." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr.Çiğdem Erçelebi.	1994
Al-Khader, Rafiq Abdalla.	"The electronic structure and optical absorption in modulation doped semiconductor heterostructures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1994
Eldegni, Mohamed Ayman Magdy.	"The electronic and transport properties of modulation doped heterostructures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1994
Gök, Fatma.	"The Galactic distribution, velocities luminosities and evolution of pulsars." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M.Ali Alpar.	1995
Ecevit, Fevzi Necati.	"Holographic interferometry and its application to visualisation of large deformations and obtaining relief holograms on Agfa 8E56HD emulsion." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aydın.	1995
Bekmezci, Ali.	"Statistical model to quark and anti-quark bound states: spectra and decays." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever.	1995
Uslu, Berrin.	"Oscillatory magnetoresistance in two-dimensional semiconductor structures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1995
Shikakhwa, Mohammad S.	"On the theory of fermions interacting through the Chern-Simons gauge field." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1995
Özcan, Mustafa.	"Casimir effect in a half Einstein universe." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Selçuk Ş. Bayın.	1995
Nassar, Ahmad.	"An analytical approach for electronic properties of semiconductor quantum-well wires." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1995
Muslih, Sami Ismail.	"Quantization and gauge fixing of constrained systems." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yurdahan Güler.	1995
Boz, Muge.	"Path integral quantization of the theory of scalar changed particles interacting via Chern-Simons fields and its applications." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1995
Demir, Durmuş Ali.	"The physics of the light-beauty quark systems." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	1995
Albiss, Borhan Aldeen.	"Variations of structural and electrical properties of (Bi, Pb)(2) Sr(2) Ca(2) Cu(3) O(10) superconductor with temperature magnetic field and gamma irradiation." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Özkan.	1996
Yılmaz, Ayşegül.	"Damping of whitsler waves in a dense magneto active plasma." Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Sinan Bilikmen.	1996
Zakout, İsmail A.	"Study of relativistic equation for ordinary and hybrid mesons." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever.	1996
Erol, Berin Cemil.	"High frequency communication experiments between the UK and Turkey." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ümit Kızıloğlu.	1996
Yildiz, Mutlu.	"Evolution and structure of the sun and low mass stars - influence of EOS by minimization of free energy method and of opal opacity." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kızıloğlu.	1996
Pesen, Erhan.	"Oscillation search study using tau-to-electron decay channel in the chorus experiment." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	1997
Parlak, Mehmet.	"Preparation and electrical structural optical characterization of InSe thin films." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Erçelebi.	1997
Bulur, Enver.	"Investigation of paramagnetic properties of tooth enamels by electron spin resonance (ESR) technique." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ay Melek Özer.	1998
Akman, Nurten.	"Electron-electron interactions in a two dimensional quantum dot." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1999
Al-Hayek, Imad.	"Wigner crystallization in semiconductor quantum wires and model calculations for HE-HE mixture." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	1999
Güler, Ali Murat.	"D(0) production rate measurement in neutrino interactions and a limit on muon neutrino to tau neutrino oscillations." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Perihan Tolun.	2000
Kayed, Tarek Said.	"Properties of the TI- and Bi-based superconducting ceramics and tapes under magnetic field and gamma irradiation." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Özkan.	2000
Qasrawi, Atef Fayez.	"Structural, electrical and photo-hall characterization of InSe : Cd and InSe thin films." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. İbrahim Günal.	2000
Salman, Saed A.	"Electronic band structure of stepped Si(100) and water stepped Si(100) systems." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şenay Katırcıoğlu.	2000
Yıldırım, Serbülent.	"Collisional damping of giant resonances." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gökalp.	2000
Göktaş, Hilal.	"Construction of double discharge pulsed electron beam generator and its applications." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülay Öke.	2001
Vanchinkhuu, Jigmeddorj.	"Nonlinear regimes of laser wakefield accelerator." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	2001
Göksu, Abdullah.	"Rare b sgg decay in the multi higgs doublet models with cp violating effects." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erhan O. İltan.	2001
Babacan, Tahsin.	"Theoretical study of vector meson photoproduction on nucleons." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gökalp.	2001
Adak, Muzaffer.	"Non-riemannian theories of gravitation and the dirac equation." Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Tekin Dereli.	2001
Marji, Ehab.	"Surface modification using magnetohydrodynamic forces in plasma." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ordal Demokan.	2001
Özpineci, Altuğ.	"Application of light cone qcd sum rules to hadron physics." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Savcı.	2001
Ankay, Aşkın.	"On the evolution of massive stars; pulsars, supernova remnants, runaways and genetic connections between them." Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Ümit Kızıloğlu.	2002
Turhan, Refik.	"Integrable nonautonomous KdV systems." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.	2002
Özdoğan, Cem.	"(O)n parallel tight-binding molecular-dynamics computer simulation : application to carbon nanotubes." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr.Gülay Dereli.	2002
Solmaz, Levent.	"B SG decay in the framework of multi Higgs doublet models including QCD corrections." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof.Dr Erhan O. İltan.	2002
Babacan, Halil.	"Some theoretical investigations concerning vector meson photoproduction. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osman Yılmaz.	2002
Ertan, Ünal.	"On the outburst light curves of black hole soft X-ray transients." Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Ümit Kızıloğlu.	2002
Yıldız, Hatice Duran.	"Observing Higgs in weak boson fusion with forward jet tagging at the CERN CMS experiment." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Zeyrek.	2002
Yedierler, Burak.	"High gradient plasma waves to accelerate charged particles." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	2002
Topal, Uğur.	"Effect of borron-doping and thermal neutron irradiation on the flux pinning in bulk high temperature superconductors." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Özkan.	2003
Yılmaz, Ercan.	"Characteristic x-ray, photoelectron and compton-scattered photon escape from a HPGe detector." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cüneyt Can.	2003
Bozkurt, Kutsal.	"Collisional effects in isovector response function of nuclear matter at finite temperature." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osman Yılmaz.	2003
Başer, Mustafa.	"Effect of instruction based on conceptual change activities on students' understanding of electrostatics concepts." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ömer Geban.	2003
Turan, İsmail.	"Flavor changing neutral current processes in the framework of the two Higgs doublet model." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erhan Onur İltan.	2003
Karabulut, Orhan.	"Structural electrical and optical characterization of N- and Si-implanted GaSe single crystal grown by bridgman method." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bülent G. Akınoğlu.	2003
Küçükarslan, Ayşe.	"The effects of p-w mixing in radiative vector meson decays." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osman Yılmaz.	2003
Mete, Ersen.	"Electronic properties of transition metal oxides." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu.	2003
Özer (Çatal), Aybike.	"Scherk-Schwarz reduction of effective string theories in even dimensions." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.	2003
Cebeci, Hakan.	"Kerr black holes and their generalizations." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.	2003
Kerman (Solmaz), Saime.	"Scalar meson effects in radiative decays of vector mesons." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gökalp.	2003
Biber, Alper.	"Application of time-domain technique to study the ray movement inside bounded anisotropic medium." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	2003
Uludogan, Mustafa.	"Molecular-dynamics investigation of pure metals and metal alloys." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	2003
Taşarkuyu, Ergün.	"Steady state and transient simulations in 2D and 3D for crystal growth by vertical bridgman systems/" Supervisor: Prof. Dr.Bülent G. Akınoğlu.	2003
Yüce, Cem.	"Rare z decays and noncommutative theories." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tahmasib Aliev	2004
Cantürk, Mehmet.	"Modeling of helically applied current to the inductively coupled radio frequency plasma torch in two dimensions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	2004
Yurduşen, İsmet.	"Prolongation structures, backlund transformations and painleve analysis of nonlinear evolution equations." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu	2004
İnam, Sıtkı Çağdaş.	"X-ray observations of accretion powered pulsars." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Altan Baykal	2004
Dikmen, Bora.	"Numerical studies of the electronic properties of low dimensional semiconductor heterostructures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak	2004
Yılmaz, Koray.	"Investigation of inse thin film based devices." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Parlak	2004
Akaoğlu, Barış.	"Optical properties of silicon based amorphous thin films." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barış Katırcıoğlu,	2004
Kart, Hasan Hüseyin.	"Molecular dynamics study of random and ordered metals and metal alloys." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak	2004
Oymak, Hüseyin.	"Theoretical investigaton of AltiNi ternary glusters : density functioanal theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şakir Erkoç.	2004
Bazkır, Özcan.	"Realization of detector based spectralresponsivity scale from ultraviolet to near infrared regions of electromagnetic spectrum." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif Esendemir.	2004
Pehlivan, Yamaç.	"Matrix quantum mechanics an dintegrable systems." Supervisor: assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.	2004
İşeri, Erkut İnan.	"Exciton simulations of the optical properties of several photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Demet Gülen	2004
Serincan, Uğur.	"Formation of semiconductor nanocrystals in sio2 by ion implantation." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan.	2004
Shaltaf, Riad.	"Adsorption and growth on si (001) surface." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şinasi Ellialtıoğlu.	2004
Özdemir Kart, Sevgi.	"Physical properties of Pd, Ni metals and their binary alloys." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak	2004
Yılmaz, Nejat Tevfik.	"Dualisation of supergravity theories." Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Özgür Sarıoğlu	2004
Aslan, Bülent.	"Physics and technology of the infrared detection systems based on heterojunctions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan	2004
Çipiloğlu, M. Ali.	"Thermoelectric effects in menososcopic physics." Supervisor: Dr. Sadi Turgut	2004
Buğdaycı, Necmi.	"Scalar waves in spacetimes with closed timelike curves." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sibel Başkal.	2005
Özdemir, Orhan.	"Instability studies in amorphous silicon based alloys." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bayram Katırcıoğlu	2004
Çoruh, Ali.	"Molecular-dynamics investigation of the dynamic properties of Pd and Al metals, and their alloys." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	2004
Sebetci, Ali.	"The structure, energetics and melting behavior of free platinum clusters." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hatice Kökten.	2004
Buğdaycı, Necmi.	"Scalar waves in spacetimes with closed timelike curves." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sibel Başkal.	2005
Karaçalı, Hüseyin.	"Correlations between the spectroscopic parameters and the thermodynamic quantities for systems exhibiting phase transitions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hamit Yurtseven	2005
Taşkın, Mustafa Özgür.	"Analysis of the physical properties of different types of neutron stars." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kızıloğlu	2005
Faridfathi, Gholamreza.	"Exact solutions of the supersmmetric quantum mechanics." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever	2005
Mohammad, Rezek Mahmoud Salim.	"The electronic band structure of III (in, al, ga)-v (n, as, sb) compounds and ternary alloys." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şenay Katırcıoğlu	2005
Bashiry, Valı.	"CP-violating effects in b decays beyond the standard model." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. T. M. Aliyev	2005
Karaca, Koray.	"A physical model for dimensional reduction and its effects on the observable parameters of the universe." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Selçuk Bayın	2005
Aygün Özyüzer, Gülnur.	"Growth and characterization of thin sio2 and ta2o5 dielectric layers nd : yag laser oxidation." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan	2005
Yılmaz, Ümit Oktay.	"The polarization properties of the final state partyicles in the rare radiative b-meson decays." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gürsevil Turan	2005
Bağcı, Gökhan B.	"The nonextensive generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics and its application." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever.	2005
Aktaş, Metin.	"Exact supersymmetric solution of Schrödinger equation for some potentials." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever	2005
Memiş, Sema.	"Ensemble Monte Carlo simulation of quantum well infrared photodetectors." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	2006
Köse, Umut.	"Antineutrino charm production and pentaquark search in the chorus experiment." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Murat Güler.	2006
Yıldırım, Hasan.	"Nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	2006
Demirtürk, Tayfun.	"Dating of Laodikeia (Denizli) building ceramics using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ay Melek Özer.	2006
Akbar, Demiral.	"The non-uniform argon dc glow discharge system parameters measured with fast three couples of double probe." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen	2006
Yazgan, Efe.	"Search for a standart model Higgs Boson in CMS via vector boson fusion in the H-WW-lvlv channel and optimization of energy reconstruction in CMS using test beam 2006 data." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet T. Zeyrek.	2007
Yılmaz, Bülent.	"Stochastic approach to fusion dynamics." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osman Yılmaz.	2007
Taşcı, Emre.	"Generation and simulations of nanostructures of cage structures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şakir Erkoç.	2007
Şendoğdu Çuhadar, Damla.	"The Köster's interferometer for gauge block length measurements." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif Esendemir.	2007
Sel, Kıvanç.	"The effects of carbon content on the properties of plasma deposited amorphous silicon carbide thin films." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Atılgan.	2007
Deniz, Muhammed.	"Measurement of sm electro-weak parameters in reactor antineutrino-electron scattering in texono experiment." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meltem Serin.	2007
Kurt, Mustafa.	"Time resolved spectroscopy of laser induced air plasma." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif Esendemir.	2007
Berberoğlu, Halil.	"Numerical simulations on stimulated raman scattering for fiber raman amplifiers and lasers using spectral methods." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Çakır.	2007
Sundu, Hayriye.	"Lepton flavor violation in the two higgs doublet model." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erhan Onur İltan.	2007
Kenar, Necmettin.	"Simulation of thermal, mechanical and optical behavior of yag ceramics with increasing Nd3+ concentration under lasing conditions." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gülay Öke.	2007
Çıldır, Sema.	"Series solution of the wave equation in optic fiber." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Çakır.	2007
Saraç, Yasemin.	"QCD sum rules for the anticharmed pentaqark." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gökalp.	2007
Kanık, İnanç.	"Light cone qcd sum rules and meson physics." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Savcı.	2008
Günhan, Ali Can.	"Environmental effects on quantum geometric phase and quantum entanglement." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	2008
Peköz, Rengin.	"Interactions of lithium-carbon nanosystems: molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şakir Erkoç.	2008
Demir, Pınar.	"Theoretical investigation and design for x-ray lasers and their lithographic application." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan K. Bilikmen.	2008
Gökşen, Kadir.	"Optical properties of some quaternary thallium chalcogenides." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nizami Hasanli.	2008
Malcıoğlu, Osman Barış.	"Tailoring one dimensional novel nano structures for specific applications using tools of molecular modeling." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şakir Erkoç.	2008
Bucurgat, Mahmut.	"Study of one dimensional position dependent effective mass problem in some quantum mechanical systems." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever.	2008
Aydoğdu, Oktay.	"Pseudospin symmetry and its applications." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever.	2009
Çağıl, Ayşe.	"Production of scalars at electron colliders in the context of littlest higgs model." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Zeyrek.	2009
Şen, Sema.	"Calculation of phase diagrams and the thermodynamic quantities from the mean field models close to phase transitions in molecular and liquid crystals." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hamit Yurtseven.	2009
Çolakoğlu, Tahir.	"The effects of post-annealing process on the physical properties of silver-indium-selenium ternary semiconductor thin films deposited by electron beam technique." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Parlak.	2009
Büyükşahin Öncel, F. Feza.	"Modulation formats for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Çakır.	2009
Er, Nuray.	"Nuclear spinodal instabilities in stochastic mean-field approaches." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Osman Yılmaz.	2009
Gül, Yusuf.	"Entanglement transformations and quantum error correction." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Namık Kemal Pak.	2009
Sekmen, Sezen.	"Supersymmetry with heavy scalars at the LHC." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet T. Zeyrek.	2009
Azizi, Kazem.	"Properties of light and heavy baryons in light cone qcd sum rules formalism." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Altuğ Özpineci.	2009
Beklen, Elif.	"X-ray and optical observations of high mass x-ray binaries." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Altan Baykal, Co-Supervisor: Assis. Prof. Dr. S. Cagdaş Inam.	2010
Şentürk, Çetin.	"Black hole collisions at the speed of light." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.	2010
Tarikci, Abdurrahman.	"Analysis of turkish art music songs via fractal dimension." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Sever.	2010
Üzengi Aktürk, Olcay.	"Density functional investigation of nano-structures." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Tomak.	2010
Köseoğlu, Devrim.	"Material characterization with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sinan Bilikmen.	2010
Seyhan, Ayşe.	"Photoluminescence properties of Si nanocrystals embedded in SiO2 matrix." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan.	2010
Kuyrukçu, Halil.	"Kaluza-klein reduction of higher curvature gravity models." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sibel Başkal.	2010
Asghar Pour Moghaddam, Nader.	"Si and si(1-x)ge(x) nanocrystals: synthesis, structural characterization, and simultaneous observation of quantum confined and interface related photoluminescence." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan.	2010
Kaleli, Murat.	"Investigation of electrical and optical properties of ag-in-se based devices." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Parlak.	2010
Gencer İmer, Arife.	"Si nanocrystals in sic matrix and infrared spectroscopy of in a dielecric matrix." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raşit Turan.	2010
Dağ, Hüseyin.	"Investigating the semileptonic B to K1(1270,1400) decays in QCD sum rules." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet T. Zeyrek.	2010
Aliyeva, Tamila.	"Production of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon based thin film transistor." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Atılgan.	2010
Amutkan, Özge	"Space Radiation Environment and Radiation Hardness Assurance Tests of Electronic Components to be Used in Space Missions." Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif Esendemir.	2010
Anutgan, Mustafa.	"Nanocrystal silicon based visible light emitting pin diodes." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bayram Katırcıoğlu.	2010
Dugan, Nazim.	"Quantum Monte Carlo methods for fermionic systems : beyond the fixed-node approximation." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. şakir Erkoç	2010
Tekin, Emine Deniz.	"Investigation of biologically important small molecules: quantum chemical and molecular dynamics cal." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Şakir Erkoç.	2010
"Karaagaç, Hakan.	"Electrical, structural and optical properties of aggase2-xsx thin films grown by sintered powder." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Parlak.	2010
Kilit, Emel.	"Critical behaviour of the thermodynamic quantities for the thermotropic and ferroelectric liquid crystal." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hamit Yurtseven.	2011
Kavruk, Dilan.	"Calculation of the thermodynamic and spectroscopic quantities in molecular crystals close to the pha." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hamit Yurtseven.	2011
Ghazanfari, Nader	Rapidly Rotating ULtracold Atoms in Harmonic Traps." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Altuğ Ozpineci.	2011
Guler, Ipek	"Optical and Electrical Transport Properties of Some Querternary Thallium Dichalcogenides." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nizami Hasanli	2011
Gamsizkan, Halil.	"Discovery Potential of Quantum Black Holes in Add Model with the CMS Detector." Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Meltem Serin	2011

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B.Sc.	1963	Ahmet Halil Saleh
	1964	Yilmaz Derviş
	1964	Güngör Tokcan
M.Sc.	1966	Hüseyin Akçay
	1966	Erol Aygün
Ph.D.	1967	Ali İmre Usseli

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Ph.D. Degrees given by the Department (1967 -2011 )