CV Name-Surname: Özgür AÇIK Birth Date: 11-11-1978 Adress: Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Physics, 06100 Tandoğan, Ankara Tel: 0312-212 67 20 (Int:1529) e-mail: ozacik@science.ankara.edu.tr Education Undergraduate June 2001, Ankara University Faculty of Engineering Department of Physics Engineering Msc June 2004, Ankara University, Institute of Science, Physics Thesis Title: Clifford algebras and their applications in physics Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Abdullah VERÇİN PhD October 2009, Ankara University, Institute of Science, Physics Thesis Title: Geometric quantum mechanics and algebra of observables Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Abdullah VERÇİN Post Doc-Lancaster University Physics Department / England with Prof. Dr. Robin W. TUCKER and Dr. Jonathan GRATUS (September 2015-January 2016: 4 months) Working Experience 2002-2009: Ankara Üniversity Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics Research Assistant 2010-2017: Ankara Üniversity Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics Dr. Research Assistant 2017-Continuing: Ankara Üniversity Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics Associate Proffesor Research Areas Mathematical Physics, Gravitation.
Given Courses Introduction to String Theory: 2013-2018 Gravitation and Cosmology: 2013-2018 Physics I Course (Mechanics) 2011-2014 Physics II Course (Elektromagnetism) 2011-2014, 2018 Seminars June 2004, Clifford Algebras amd Their Application in Physics July 2006, Geometric Quantum Mechanics December 2007, Composite Systems and Bell s Theorem May 2008, Maxwell s Equation (by Clifford Calculus on Manifolds) April 2013, Knot Theory and Physics (Ankara University Department of Mathematics ) May 2014, Quantum Geometry I (Anadolu University Department of Mathematics, Eskişehir) September 2015, My research areas and topics (Lancaster University Physics Department, Lancaster / England) April 2016, Stress-energy-momentum Tensors in Physics I (Ankara University Department of Physics)
National and International Talks and Poster Presentations 1) April 2014, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems XIII, Koç University, İstanbul Talk: Couplings of gravitational currents with Chern-Simons gravities 2) May 2015, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems XIV, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa/ North Cyprus Talk: Higher-degree Dirac currents of Twistor and Killing Spinors with Applications to Supergravity 3) May 2016, Recent Trends in String Theory and Related Topics, Institute for research in fundamental sciences (IPM), Tahran / Iran (Invited Talk) Talk: Higher-rank Dirac currents as sources for p-brane stress-energy-momentum tensors in background gravitational fields 4) June 2017, International Scientific Conference Algebraic and Geometric Methods of Analysis, Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies, Odessa / Ukrain (Invited Talk) Talk: Field Equations from Geometric Killing Spinors June 2014, Humbolt Kolleg: German-Turkish Cooperation in Physics: New Challenges in Science, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, 11-13 June 2014 Poster Presentation: Chern-Simons-AdS gravities and gravitationally charged 2p-branes
Summer Schools and Workshops June 2017, International Scientific Conference Algebraic and Geometric Methods of Analysis, Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies, Odessa / Ukrain May 2016, Recent Trends in String Theory and Related Topics, Institute for research in fundamental sciences (IPM), Tahran / Iran November 2015, Forthy-Fifth Meeting of the North British Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University / England May 2015, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems XIV, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta / North Cyprus. June 2014, Humbolt Kolleg: German-Turkish Cooperation in Physics: New Challenges in Science, Ankara University, Ankara. April 2014, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems XIII, Koç University, İstanbul. August 2009, Loops 09: International Conference on Quantum Gravity, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. July 2008, Summer School in Cosmology, the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy. May 2008, III. Ankara Mathematics Days Symposium, Ankara University, Ankara. April 2008, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems VII, Anadolu University, Eskişehir. July 2007, Strings, Branes and Cosmology, Koç University, İstanbul. April 2007, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems VI, METU, Ankara. June 2006, Arithmetic and Geometry Around Quantization, Galatasaray University, İstanbul. January 2006, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems V, Pamukkale University, Denizli. September 2005, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems IV, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu. September 2004, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems III, METU, Ankara. September 2003, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems II, Koç University, İstanbul. November 2001, Quantization, Dualities & Integrable Systems I, Bilkent University, Ankara.
Publications 1) Ö. Açık ve Ü. Ertem, Spin raising and lowering operators for Rarita-Schwinger fields, Phys. Rev. D 98, 066004 (2018). 2) Ö. Açık, Spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 field solutions in plane wave spacetimes, Gen. Relativ. Gravit., 50, 33 (2018). 3) Ö. Açık, Field Equations from Killing Spinors, J. Math. Phys. 59, 023501, (2018). 4) Ö. Açık ve Ü. Ertem, Transgression field theory at the interface of topological insulators, Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (2017- DOI:10.1007/s00006-017-0761-7). 5) Ö. Açık ve Ü. Ertem, Hidden Symmetries and Lie Algebra Structures from Geometric and Supergravity Killing Spinors, Class. Quantum Grav. 33, 165002 (2016). 6) Ö. Açık ve Ü. Ertem, Higher-degree Dirac Currents of Twistor and Killing Spinors in Supergravity Theories, Class. Quantum Grav. 32, 175007 (2015). 7) Ü. Ertem ve Ö. Açık, Couplings of Gravitational Currents with Chern-Simons Gravities, Phys. Rev. D 87, 044052 (2013). 8) Ü. Ertem ve Ö. Açık, Generalized Chern-Simons Modified Gravity in First-Order Formalism, Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 45, 477 (2013). 9) Ö. Açık, Ü. Ertem, M. Önder ve A. Verçin, Basic Gravitational Currents and Killing-Yano Forms, Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 42, 2543 (2010). 10) Ö. Açık, Ü. Ertem, M. Önder ve A. Verçin, Killing-Yano Forms of a Class of Spherically Symmetric Space-Times: A Unified Generation of Higher Forms, J. Math. Phys. 51, 022502 (2010). 11) Ö. Açık, Ü. Ertem, M. Önder ve A. Verçin, First-order Symmetries of Dirac equation in Curved Background: A Unified Dynamical Symmetry Condition, Class. Quantum Grav. 26, 075001 (2009).
Popular Writings Generating Dynamical Bosons from Kinematical Fermions, CQG+ (Posted on August19, 2015 by clairefullarton) (Ümit Ertem and Özgür Açık). Course Materials FİZ155 Mechanics Lab Course (5/10 Chapters) Reviewer Sakarya University Journal of Sciences The Journal of Physics Education and Philosophy Indian Journal of Physics Math Reviews Classical and Quantum Gravity Projects Tübitak 3001 Project: Distribution Theory and Spin Geometry Methods in General Relativity and String Theories Project No:118F086