Ahmet Özkan Özer
Personal
Address:
Address:
Address:
Address:
1664 N. Virginia Street
Department of Mathematics & Stat.
University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada, USA 89557
Residency: Permanent Resident of USA
E-mail: aozer@unr.edu
Tel: 775-784-6774
Research
interests
Partial differential equations; Optimization and control theory of infinite dimensional systems; Inverse problems and observer design; Numerical analysis; Applied functional analysis; Nonharmonic
Fourier series; Stability and stabilization theory; Continuum mechanics; Mathematical modeling;
Smart material structures; Mathematical biology.
Education
PhD in Applied Mathematics, Iowa State University (ISU)
Advisor: Scott W. Hansen
Thesis: Exact boundary controllability and feedback stabilization for a multi-layer
Rao-Nakra beam
2011
Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Advisor: Charles C. Chidume
Thesis: On existence theorems in optimization theory and proximal point algorithm
MSc in Engineering Mechanics, Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
Advisor: Esin Inan
Thesis: One-dimensional wave propagation on a finite nonlocal medium by using
Finite Difference Method
2006
BSc in Mathematics Engineering, ITU
Thesis: Mathieu equation & inverted pendulum (Advisor: Prof. E. Inan)
2001
2004
Employment
University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Postdoctoral Fellow
August 2013 - date
University of Waterloo (UW), Department of Applied Mathematics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sept. 2011 - August 2013
Mentor: Kirsten A. Morris
Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics
Graduate Teaching Assistant
August 2006 - 2011
ITU, Department of Mathematics
Graduate Teaching Assistant
August 2001 - August 2005
ITU Rectorate
Undergraduate Project Assistant (Distance Education Project) Sept. 1997 - April 2000
Awards
& Honors
The Fields Institute Young Researcher Travel Award
Spring 2013
Awarded to participate in the Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2013, Mexico
J.J.L. Hinrichsen Applied Mathematics Research Award, ISU
Spring 2011
Awarded annually by the Mathematics department for research excellence in applied mathematics. The award is the ISU Mathematics Department’s highest research honor for graduate
students.
Lead TA and Graduate Teaching Coordinator, ISU
May 2010-May 2011
(See the Teaching section.)
Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award, ISU
Spring 2010
Award from the Iowa State Graduate College. Competition for this type of award is at the
college level.
UNESCO - IAEA Scholarship
August 2005 - August 2006
Awarded a full scholarship to attend the Diploma Program in Mathematics at the International
Center of Theoretical Physics. (Every year only ten graduate students are accepted.)
Institute of Science and Technology, ITU
May 2002
Graduate Student Excellence Award.
RESEARCH
Peer-reviewed
Journal
publications
A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and related results for current-actuated piezoelectric beams by including
magnetic effects, submitted to SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.
A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and semigroup formulation of charge or current-controlled active constrained layer (ACL) beams; electrostatic, quasi-static, and fully-dynamic assumptions, submitted, arXiv: 1512:08324.
A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and Control results for an active constrained layered (ACL) beam actuated by two voltage sources with/without magnetic effects, under revision at the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, arXiv: 1511.05907.
A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and well-posedness results for active constrained layered (ACL) beams
with/without magnetic effects, under revision at Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences.
A.Ö. Özer, Further stabilization and exact observability results for voltage-actuated piezoelectric
beams with magnetic effects, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, (27-2)
(2015), pp. 219–244.
K.A. Morris, A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and stabilizability of voltage-actuated piezoelectric beams
with magnetic effects, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, (52-4) (2014), pp.
2371-2398.
A.Ö. Özer, S.W. Hansen, Exact controllability result for a multi-layer Rao–Nakra sandwich
beam, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, (52-2) (2014), pp. 1314-1337.
A.Ö. Özer, S.W. Hansen, Uniform stabilization of a multi–layer Rao–Nakra sandwich beam,
Evolution Equations and Control Theory, (2-4)(2013), pp. 695–710.
K. Han, H. Huy, E. Ko, A.Ö. Özer, C. Simon, C. Tan., A variational approach to modeling
aircraft hoses and flexible conduits, Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies, (2012), pp.
1-13.
A.Ö. Özer, S.W. Hansen, Exact controllability of a Rayleigh beam with a single boundary
control, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, (23-1) (2011), pp. 199-222.
Peer-reviewed
Conference
Proceedings
A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and stabilization results for a current or charge-actuated active constrained layer (ACL) beam model with the electrostatic assumption, submitted to: Smart
Structures NDE 2016: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems X, Piezobased Materials and Systems II, Proc. of SPIE.
A.Ö. Özer, Semigroup well-posedness of a voltage controlled active constrained layered (ACL)
beam with magnetic effects, accepted by The Proceedings of the American Control
Conference to appear in July 2016.
K.A. Morris, A.Ö. Özer, Comparison of stabilization of current-actuated and voltage-actuated
piezoelectric beams,The Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision & Control,
(2014), pp. 571–576.
K.A. Morris, A.Ö. Özer, Modeling and stabilization of current-actuated piezoelectric beams,
The Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of
Networks and Systems, (2014).
A.Ö. Özer, K.A. Morris, Modeling an elastic beam with piezoelectric patches by including magnetic effects, The Proceedings of the American Control Conference, (2014), pp. 1045–
1050.
K.A. Morris, A.Ö. Özer, Strong stabilization of piezoelectric beams with magnetic effects, The
Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, (2013), pp. 3014-3019.
S.W. Hansen, A.Ö. Özer, Exact boundary controllability of an abstract Mead–Marcus sandwich
beam model, The Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, (2010), pp.
2578-2583.
A.Ö. Özer, E. Inan, One-dimensional wave propagation problem in a nonlocal finite medium
with Finite Difference Method, Springer Proceedings in Physics (111) (2007), pp. 383-388.
Preprints
Modeling and stabilization of the nonlinear piezoelectric beam actuated by voltage with K.A.
Morris.
Exact controllability and stabilization of active constrained layer (ACL) damped beams/plates,
NSF grant proposal.
Control of current-actuated piezoelectric beams with K.A. Morris.
Controllability and stabilizability results for charge or current-actuated ACL beams.
2-D modeling and analysis of an Active Constrained Layer (ACL) composite with magnetic
effects.
Exact controllability results for voltage-actuated beam/piezo-patch system including magnetic
effects.
Output control of smart beams under bounded dynamic loads through non-collocated sensors
and actuators, with M. A. Pinsky, arXiv: 1410.8045.
Service
Refereeing Duties
I have been serving as a referee for the following journals : SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, The International Journal
of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and
Structures, Inverse Problems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop.
Chair of the session “Flexible Structures,” The 2016 American Control Conference,
Boston, MA
July 2016
Chair of the session “Piezo-based Materials and Systems II,” SPIE Conference on
Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems X, Las Vegas, NV March
2016
Co-organizer of the mini-symposium “Control of Partial Differential Equations”, SIAM
Conference on Control and Its Applications, San Diego, CA
July 2013
Chair of the session “Controlled PDEs and Applications”, SIAM Conference on Control
and Its Applications, Baltimore, MD
July 2011
Colloquium Talks Western Kentucky University,
March 16, 2016
Title : Modeling issues for a class of smart structures, and Mathematical challenges in controlling
related Partial Differential Equations.
New Mexico Institute of Technology,
March 3, 2016
Title : Modeling issues for a class of smart structures, and Mathematical challenges in controlling
related Partial Differential Equations.
University of Nevada
Title : Control theory for Infinite Dimensional Systems, a general outlook
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY
Title : Control Theory of Partial Differential Equations
October 2014
January 10, 2014
Dept. of Applied Math., University of Waterloo
September 2011
Title: Boundary feedback stabilization and exact controllability results for Rao-Nakra type sandwich
beam.
Conference &
Invited talks
Workshop Talks
Georgia Institute of Tech., Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACM)
seminar
November 30, 2015
Title : Modeling and Controllability issues for a general class of smart structures, a general outlook.
The 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
Groningen, The Netherlands,
July 2014
Title: Modeling and stabilization of current-actuated piezoelectric beams Exact controllability and
stabilization results for a piezoelectric beam.
American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA,
June 2014
Title: Modeling and stabilization of current-actuated piezoelectric beams Exact controllability and
stabilization results for a piezoelectric beam.
Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico
August 2013
Title I: Exact controllability and stabilization results for a piezoelectric beam.
Title II: A variational approach to modeling piezoelectric beams with magnetic effects.
AMS Spring Central Sectional Meetings, Ames, IA
Title : Stabilization of voltage-actuated piezoelectric beams with magnetic effects.
April 2013
SEARCDE -2012, Wake Forest University, Greensboro, NC
October 2012
Title: Modeling piezoelectric beams including magnetic effects and recent stabilization results.
Travel expenses covered by the organizers.
The 8th International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems,
University of Waterloo
August 2012
Title: A variational approach for modeling voltage and current-actuated piezoelectric beams by including magnetic effects.
SEARCDE -2011, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA
Title: Boundary feedback stabilization of a multilayer Rao-Nakra beam.
Travel expenses are covered by the organizers.
October 2011
AMS Southeastern Sectional Meetings, Statesboro, GA
Title : Exact boundary controllability results for a multi-layer Rao-Nakra beam.
Received travel support from the organizers.
March 2011
Conf. on Harmonic Analysis and PDE’s, University of Nebraska
Title : Boundary feedback stabilization of an undamped multi-layer Rao-Nakra beam.
Received travel support from the organizers.
April 2010
Contributed talks
SPIE Smart Structures NDE, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems X, Las
Vegas, NV
March 2016
Title : Modeling and recent controllability results for a current-actuated piezoelectric beam model
53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA
December 2014
Title : Comparison of stabilization of current-actuated and voltage-actuated piezoelectric beams
Boston University/Keio University Workshop, Boston, MA
Title : Modeling and controllability issues for piezoelectric structures
September 2014
American Control Conference, Portland, OR
June 2014
Title : Modeling an Elastic Beam with Piezoelectric Patches by Including Magnetic Effects (I)
SIAM Conference on Control & Its Applications, San Diego, CA
Title : Stabilizability of piezoelectric beams with magnetic effects.
(Co-organizer of the mini-symposium on “Control of Partial Differential Equations”)
July 2013
Control seminar, Dept. of Applied Math., University of Waterloo
Title: Hilbert Uniqueness Method and Exact Controllability.
June 12, 2013
Control seminar, Dept. of Applied Math., University of Waterloo
Title: Control and stabilization of PDEs for smart structures.
February 7, 2013
5th Biannual Meeting on Systems and Control Theory, U. of Toronto
Title: A variational approach to modeling a voltage-driven piezoelectric beam.
May 2012
Control seminar, Dept. of Applied Math., University of Waterloo
Title: A variational approach to modeling piezoelectric beams.
January 11, 2012
SIAM Conference on Control & Its Applications, Baltimore, MD
Title : Exact controllability of a Rayleigh beam with a single boundary control.
Received SIAM Travel Award.
July 2011
AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA
January 2011
Title : Exact Controllability of a Kirchhoff system with a single boundary control.
SEARCDE -2010, Virginia Tech University-Blacksburg, VA
Title: Exact boundary controllability of a multi-layer Rao-Nakra beam.
Received travel support from the organizers.
October 2010
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, ISU
Title : Control and stabilization of multi-layer Rao-Nakra beam.
April 2010
CIMPA Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications, Santiago, Chile
Jan 2010
Title : Exact Boundary Controllability results for a damped multi-layer Rao-Nakra beam.
Received full support from CIMPA-France, and University of Chile.
SIAM Conference on Control & Its Applications, Denver, CO
July 2009
Title: Exact boundary controllability for an undamped three-layer sandwich beam by Hilbert Uniqueness Method. Received SIAM Travel Award.
The Seventh International Conference on Vibration Problems, Istanbul
Sep 2005
Title : One-dimensional wave propagation problem in a nonlocal finite medium with Finite Difference
Method.
Summer Schools
& Workshops
Teaching
Experience
IMA Annual Program Year Workshop on Computational Methods for Control of Infinite-dimensional
Systems,
March 14-18 2016
Received full support from IMA.
IMA Workshop - Mathematical Modeling in Industry XV, IMA
Project title : Modeling aircraft hoses and flexible conduits
Mentor: Thomas Grandine from the Boeing company
Received full support from IMA.
August 3-12 2011
CIMPA Research School on Inverse Problems and Applications
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Received full support from CIMPA & Univ. of Chile
January 4-15 2010
MSRI Summer Graduate Workshop on Inverse Problems, MSRI, Berkeley, CA
Received accommodation and travel support from the organizers
July 20-31 2009
Study Weeks on Inverse Spectral Transform and Soliton Theory
Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
June 1-11, 2004
Lead TA and Graduate Teaching Coordinator, ISU
May 2010-August 2011
Help Associate Chair schedule teaching assignments for Fall and Spring; Monitor, advise, and
perform in-class observations of new TAs; Manage orientation for new TAs; Help foreign TAs
improve their speaking ability, and overall mentoring of teaching.
Course Instructor
(UNR) Differential Equations
(UNR) Linear Algebra
Spring 2016
Fall 2013,14,15, Spring 2014, 15, Summer 2015
(UNR) Introductory Calculus for Business and Social Sciences
Summer 2014
(UNR) Pre-calculus II
Fall 2013, 15
(UW) Applied Linear Algebra I
Fall 2011, 12
(ISU) Elementary Differential Equations & Laplace Transform
Spring 2010
(ISU) Calculus I
(ISU) College Algebra
(ISU) Trigonometry / Trigonometry & Analytic Geometry
(ISU) Calculus and Mathematical Modeling for the Life Sciences II
Fall 2007, 09
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Applied Mathematics Qualifying Exam Study Group Coor., ISU Summer 2009,10,11
Assigned by the department for three consecutive years in a row. Arranged three-hour meetings
with graduate students three times a week; Created problem sets; Went over old qualifying
exam questions.
Graduate Courses Graded
(ISU) : Functions of a Single Complex Variable
Spring 11
Tutorials Led
(ISU) Discrete Math for Business and Social Sciences, Spring 09; Calculus I, Spring 07
(ITU) Analysis I, Fall 04; Analysis II, Spring 04; Engineering Calculus I, Fall 01,02,03,
(ITU) : Summer 02, 04; Engineering Calculus II, Spring 01, 02, 03, Summer 01, 03
Educational
Research
Papers in preparation
1. “Formative course assessment surveys in undergraduate teaching.”
Educational
Talks
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, ISU
February 16, 2011
Title : How to develop an effective formative course assessment system (Invited talk).
2011 HMC Mathematics Conference on Broadening Participation in the Mathematical
Sciences, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
February 4-5, 2011
Title : How to use formative course assessment techniques in teaching mathematics
Title : and science courses (Poster presentation).
Mathematics Department, ISU
February 2, 2011
Title : Use of Blackboard (WebCT) and Respondus in designing online courses and formative
Title : course assessment surveys, joint presentation with Prof. Jennifer Davidson.
Title : How to use formative course assessment techniques in undergraduate teaching, joint
presentation with Prof. Halil Ceylan (Invited talk)
Title :
Graduate Teaching Seminar, ISU
August 25, 2010
Title : Formative Course Assessment Surveys to promote Active Learning.
Educational
Development
Center for Teaching Excellence, UW
CTE 908: Documenting Your Teaching for Tenure and Promotion
CTE 687: Large Classes Learning Comm.
March 27, 2013
March 26, 2013
Teaching Development Seminar Series for Postdoctoral Researchers and Faculty
( Received Certificate)
March 18-22, 2013
CTE 196: Teaching Philosophy Statements
CTE 501: How Students Learn
CTE 502: Motivating Students
CTE 503: Assessments and Rubrics
CTE 504: Interactive Teaching
CTE 505: Introduction to Course Design
Center For Excellence in Learning and Teaching, ISU
From Classroom Assessment to Impact Evaluation
Faculty Forum for Teaching Tips
February 2009
Engaging Students in the Classroom
February 2009
College Teaching Seminar, ISU
Service
September 2010
Advisor, ATA Nevada,
Vice President, Math Graduate Student Council,
August 2006
December 2013-date
Spring 2009-2011
President, Turkish Student Association of ISU,
August 2008-2009
Maintained relations with other Turkish organizations; planned TSA events such as Annual
Turkish Night, Turkish Movie Night, other ISU events; served as liaison between TSA, Government Student Body and International Student Council.
Treasurer, Turkish Student Association of ISU,
Computer skills
August 2007-2008
Matlab, Mathematica, C
Teaching tech: MyMathLab, WebAssign, WebCT, Blackboard, Maple TA, Learn, Mathematica,
Excel, PowerPoint
Professional
Organizations
AMS, IEEE, SIAM, MAA, CMS