Soner Albayrak's Research Group

The overarching theme of Soner Albayrak's current and future research interests is the study of the pressing yet trackable issues in theoretical physics through both perturbative and non-perturbative methods. Although this is a rather ambitious and a somehow ambigious goal, similar mathematical methods are universally utilized in various branches of theoretical physics, allowing mathematical physicists to leverage progress in one theoretical area to another among cosmology, particle physics, quantum gravity, and so on. Indeed, Soner Albayrak has worked and published in the study of conformal field theory as a pure mathematical endeavour [e.g. JHEP09(2020)], its applications to condensed matter systems [e.g. Phys.Rev.D105(2022)], its implications in describing the observables of quantum gravity [e.g. JHEP03(2021)], its utilization in holographic description of particle physics [e.g. Phys.Rev.D102(2020)] among others. Likewise, his research includes investigation of inflationary problems in cosmology [e.g. SciPost Phys.16(2024)] and perturbative computations in curved spaces [e.g. JHEP02(2019)].

Soner Albayrak is currently forming his research group, and is hoping to work with his students and publish in these and related fields.

Seçkin Kürkçüoğlu's Research Group

The recent focus of Seçkin Kürkcüoğlu’s research group is on investigating various aspects of emergent chaotic dynamics in matrix gauge theories both at classical and quantum levels. Developments in this direction have the potential to lead us to better contemplate various conjectures in regard to black holes through gauge/gravity duality. Seçkin Kürkcüoğlu and his graduate and undergraduate students are tackling problems on dynamics of matrix gauge theories on fuzzy spheres, their thermal properties, as well as entanglement in such systems and their possible relation to quantum chaos.

Özgür Sarıoğlu's Research Group

Özgür Sarıoğlu and his students work on General Relativity and gravitation at large, such as the Killing family of tensors and their applications, Chern-Simons-like formulation of three-dimensional massive gravity theories, and three-dimensional supergravity theories consistently truncated from higher dimensional supergravity models. The group also has a broad range of interest in modern problems in mathematical physics in general, including, e.g. (differential) geometry, mathematical general relativity, and mathematics of double field theory.

Bayram Tekin's Research Group

Bayram Tekin and his undergraduate and graduate students are working on the thermodynamics of black holes, the environment of black holes, quantum field theories, alternative theories of gravity, total dynamics of the universe, models of the Big Bang and inflationary phase of the universe, and quantum gravity theories. Recently, they published some of their results in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.