Turgay Uzer
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| Ahmet Turgay Uzer | |
| Born | Samsun, Turkey |
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| Residence |  Atlanta, Georgia |
| Nationality | American (citation needed), Turkish |
| Fields | Physics, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Middle East Technical University,Harvard |
| Doctoral advisor | N/A |
| Doctoral students | Jose Luis Vega (Argentina) |
| Known for | Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in classical mechanics and semiclassical mechanics applied to atomic systems. |
Ahmet Turgay Uzer, commonly known as Turgay Uzer, is a theoretical physicist.
Currently Regents' Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has contributed in field of atomic and molecular physics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos significantly.[1] Specially his research on interplay between quantum dynamics and classical mechanics, in the context of chaos considered to be novel in molecular and theoretical physics and chemistry. Arguably, he is one of the most successful Turkish natural scientist, such as Oktay Sinanoglu, Feza Gursey, and Orhan Barut.
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[edit] Academic career
Professor Uzer has completed his first degree in Turkey's prestigious university, Middle East Technical University. According to Harvard University Library [1] his doctoral thesis titled "Photon and electron interactions with diatomic molecules" was published in Harvard University, 1979.
Before joining to Georgia Tech in 1985 as an Associate Professor, He worked as a research fellow at University of Oxford 1979/81, Caltech 1982/1983, and as a research associate at University of Colarado 1983/85. Currently, he is a Faculty member of Center for Nonlinear Science and full professor of Physics at Georgia Tech.
His research areas are quite broad and technological implications are enormous. Specifically, but not limited to, dynamics of intermolecular energy transfer, reaction dynamics, quantal manifestations of classical mechanics, quantization of nonlinear systems, computational physics, molecular physics, applied mathematics.
[edit] Awards
Professor Uzer was Alexander von Humbolt-Stiftung Foundation Fellow in 1993-1994 at Max Planck Institute, Munich.
He is also holding a Science award for his contributions to Physics from the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) [2] in 1998.
[edit] Selected Publications
[edit] Books
- The Physics and Chemistry of Wave Packets, with John Yeazell at books.google
- Lecture Notes on Atomic and Molecular Physics with Şakir Erkoç at books.google
[edit] Some of the Seminal Papers
Professor Uzer has more than 80 refereed Journal articles, in highly respected scientific journals.
- appeared in PRE Chaotic billiards with neutral boundaries
- appeared in Science Celestial Mechanics on a Microscopic Scale
- appeared in JCP Quantization with operators appropriate to shapes of trajectories and classical perturbation theory
