Betül Tanbay (born 1960) is a

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and professor of mathematics at the

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and the first woman president of the

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between 2010 and 2016.

Education

Betül Tanbay was born in Istanbul and raised in

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until 1977. She graduated from the

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in 1978. She received her Licence en Mathématiques from Université Louis Pasteur,

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in 1982, and her PhD in Mathematics under the supervision of Robert Solovay at the

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in the

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in 1989.

Academic career

She has been a full time member and chairwoman in the Department of Mathematics, at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She has been the Vice-Provost for Foreign Affairs and represented her university at the

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between 2004 and 2007. She is the founding codirector of the Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences (IMBM). She has been in the scientific boards of research institutes such as IMBM,

Feza Gürsey Institute Feza Gürsey Institute ( tr, Feza Gürsey Enstitüsü) is a joint institute of Boğaziçi University and TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) on physics research, founded in 1983 by Erdal İnönü with the name ''Res ...

, Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Aix Marseille (IMéRA). She was the director of a leading doctoral network project of

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between 2008 and 2012. She has worked as an executive committee member, including presidency, at the Turkish Mathematical Society; as delegate, Ethics Committee member, Raising Awareness Committee member, Executive Committee member at the European Mathematical Society where she was elected Vice-President for the 2019-2022 period; and as delegate, member of the Committee for Women in Mathematics at the International Mathematical Union.IMU Women in Mathematics membership
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Visiting positions

She has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara,

Université de Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (French: ''Université de Bordeaux'') is a public university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Ta ...

, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu,

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and joined the Kadison-Singer Conjecture Workshop at the

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Research areas

Her research interests include operator algebras and set theory.

Representative scientific journal publications

* C. Akemann, J. Anderson, B. Tanbay, ''Weak Paveability And The Kadison-Singer Problem'', Journal of Operator Theory, vol. 71, no. 1, pp.295-300 (2014). * B. Tanbay, A ''Letter on the Kadison-Singer problem'', Revue Roumaine des Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 293—302 (2014). http://imar.ro/journals/Revue_Mathematique/pdfs/2014/2/10.pdf * C. Akemann, J. Anderson, B. Tanbay, ''The Kadison-Singer problem for the direct sum of matrix algebras'', Positivity, vol. 16, no. 1, pp 53–66 (2012). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11117-010-0109-1.pdf * C. Akemann, B. Tanbay, A. Ülger ''A Note On The Kadison-Singer Problem'', Journal of Operator Theory, vol. 63, no. 2, 363–274 (2010).

Memberships

Betül Tanbay is a member of the Turkish, American and European Mathematical Societies.

References

External links

Betül Tanbay's professional home page
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