Attila Aşkar (born September 4, 1943) is a

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and former president of the

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in Rumelifeneri,

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during 2001 and 2009.

Life

Attila Aşkar was born on September 4,

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.Bolvadin, Afyonkarahisar-Türkiye.
/ref> He is the son of Kemal and Nüzhet Aşkar, and was married to ''Elsie Vance,'' the daughter of former Secretary of State

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on August 30, 1998.

Education

Aşkar graduated from St. Joseph High School in

in 1961. He received his ''

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Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

'' from the

Technical University of Istanbul Istanbul Technical University ( tr, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, commonly referred to as ITU or The Technical University) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university ...

in 1966, and his PhD in Program in applied and

computational mathematics Computational mathematics is an area of mathematics devoted to the interaction between mathematics and computer computation.National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical ScienceProgram description PD 06-888 Computational Mathematics 2006 ...

founded by A. Cemal Eringen under the supervision of Ahmet Çakmak at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in the

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in 1969.

Academic life

He was the head in the department of

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...

. After losing the Boğaziçi University Rector ''(president)''Presidents of Boğaziçi University
/ref> elections in

he moved to

's "

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Campus" in

as a professor of Mathematics and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Aşkar then was appointed as the president and provost ''(rector)'' of the

Visiting positions

He held many visiting research scientist and professor positions at prestigious universities like

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, Princeton University,

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VI, the

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and the

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Research areas

Dr. Aşkar's recent research interests included scattering of classical and quantum waves,

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and

molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamic "evolution" of the ...

. He is the author of over eighty research journal articles and two books.

Writings

Lattice Dynamical Foundations of Continuum Theories: Elasticity, Piezoelectricity... (Series in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Vol 2)

Memberships

Dr. Aşkar is also on the board of directors at the

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, a non-profit organization located in

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Awards

He received recognitions, which include the Junior Scientist and Science awards of the National Research Council (

TÜBİTAK The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of Turkey whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies ...

), the Information Age Award of the Ministry of Culture, and entry to the National Academy of Sciences of Turkey.

Representative scientific journal publications

* A. Aşkar, A. Çakmak, and H. Rabitz, ''Nodal structure and global behavior of scattering wave functions,'' J. Chem. Phys., 72, 5287, DOI: 10.1063/1.439739, (1980) * M. Duff, H. Rabitz, A. Aşkar, A. Çakmak, and M. Ablowitz, ''A Comparison Between

Finite Element Method The finite element method (FEM) is a popular method for numerically solving differential equations arising in engineering and mathematical modeling. Typical problem areas of interest include the traditional fields of structural analysis, heat ...

s and Spectral Methods as Applied to Bound State Problems,'' J. Chem. Phys., 72, 1543, DOI: 10.1063/1.439381, (1980) * A. Aşkar, A. S. Çakmak, and H. Rabitz, ''Finite Element Methods for Reactive Scattering,'' Chem. Phys., 33, 367, DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(78)87134-1, (1978) * H. Rabitz, A. Aşkar, and A. S. Çakmak, ''The Use of Global Wavefunctions in Scattering Theory,'' Chem. Phys., 29, 61, DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(78)85061-7, (1978)

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