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Nur Saglam

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Limited Term Lecturer

I am a Limited Term Instructor at University of Georgia, Department of Mathematics. Previously, I was Research Scholar at Georgia Tech School of Mathematics with  International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship I received from TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). My mentor was John Etnyre.  I received my Ph.D. in 2017 from UMN under the supervision of Anar Akhmedov.

My research interests are low-dimensional topology, symplectic topology and contact topology. In particular, I am working on classification problems of smooth and symplectic 4-manifolds, exotic smooth structures on small 4-manifolds and classification of symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds.

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My research interests are low-dimensional topology, symplectic topology and contact topology. In particular, I am working on classification problems of smooth and symplectic 4-manifolds, exotic smooth structures on small 4-manifolds and symplectic fillingsof contact 3-manifolds.
 

Selected Publications:
  1. Surgeries on the Trefoil and Symplectic Fillings, with John Etnyre

  2. Constructing Lefschetz Fibrations via Cyclic Group Actions I, with Anar Akhmedov, Advanced Mathematical Models & Applications, 2019, Vol.4, No 1, pp.15−50.

  3. New Exotic 4-Manifolds via Luttinger Surgery on Lefschetz Fibrations, with Anar Akhmedov, Int. J. Math., 2015, Vol.26, No 1, pp.179−200.

Teaching:
    • Math 2260-Calculus II for Science and Engineering-Spring 25
    • Math 2200-Analytic Geometry and Calculus-Spring 25
    • Math 4200&6200- Point Set Topology-Fall 24
    • Math 2250-Calculus 1-Fall 24
    • Math 2250-Calculus 1-Spring 24
    • Math 1113-PreCalculus-Fall 23

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