Selcuk Bayın: Non-singular cosmological models. Constructing a physical model for the dimensional reduction in the early universe and studying the effects on the observable parameters of the universe. Black-hole thermodynamics and its extention to other geometries.
Sibel Başkal: Manifestations of the Poincare group and group contractions in optical sciences. Problems in classical field theories such as sigma models, non-abelian gauge fields and general relativity with a particular focus on their symmetry properties.
Atalay Karasu: Einstein's equations in higher dimensions. Harmonic mappings. Sigma models. Integrability and symmetries of nonlinear partial differential equations. Generalized symmetries and recursion operators.
Ayşe Kalkanlı Karasu: Integrable systems. Symmetries of nonlinear differential equations. Singularity analysis.
Bahtiyar Özgür Sarıoğlu: Gravitational theories, superstring theories, integrable systems, electromagnetic duality.
Bayram Tekin: Quantum Field Theory,Gravity, Quantum Gravity and String Theory Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Condensed Matter Systems.

Graduate Students

Tahsin Çağrı Şişman, PhD

Halil Kuyrukçu, PhD: Higher curvature gravity models
Çetin Şentürk, PhD: Colliding plane wave solutions in string theory

Former Graduate Students (2000 - ....)

Koray Karaca, MS
Singularity-free cosmological models (2000).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Selçuk Bayın.

Ali Can Günhan, MS
A class of coupled KdV systems and their bi-Hamiltonian formulations (2000).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Özlem Kaya, MS
Integrable systems of classical mechanics and Lax tensors (2000).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.

Muzaffer Adak, PhD
Non-Riemannian theories of gravitation and the Dirac equation (2001).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli.

Hasan Yıldırım, MS
Use of Lie symmetries in solving nonlinear ordinary differential equations (2001).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.

Refik Turhan, PhD
Integrable nonautonomous KdV systems (2002).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Ömer Ender Erginoğlu, MS
Lorentz group in optical sciences (2002).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sibel Başkal.

Emre Onur Kahya, MS
Some higher dimensional vacuum solutions of Einstein field equations (2002).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Haldun Sevinçli, MS
Tunneling time models and Superluminality (2002).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Sarıoğlu.

Tuba Kılıç, MS
Painlevé Integrability Test (2002).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.

Hakan Cebeci, PhD
Kerr black holes and their generalizations (2003).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli.

Aybike Özer(Çatal), PhD
Scherk-Schwarz reduction of effective string theories in even dimensions (2003).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli.

Ahmed Abuhatab, MS
Non-abelian gauge theories of the Yang-Mills type (2003).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sibel Başkal.

Çetin Şentürk, MS
Higher dimensional Bell-Szekeres metric (2003).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Hüseyin Dağ, MS
A class of super integrable Korteweg-de Vries systems (2003).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

İsmet Yurduşen, PhD
Prolongation structures, Backlund transformations and Painleve analysis of nonlinear evolution equations (2004).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.

Nejat Tevfik Yılmaz, PhD
Dualisation of supergravity theories (2004).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli

Yamaç Pehlivan, PhD
Matrix quantum mechanics and integrable systems (2004).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tekin Dereli.

Koray Karaca, PhD
A physical model for dimensional reduction and its effects on the observable parameters of the universe (2005).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Selçuk Bayın.

Necmi Buğdaycı, PhD
Scalar waves in spacetimes with closed timelike curves (2005).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sibel Başkal.

İbrahim Güllü, MS
Conserved charges in asymptotically AdS spacetimes (2005).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bayram Tekin.

Mehmet Kavuk, MS
Gödel Spacetime (2005).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Sarıoğlu.

Efsun Cambaz, MS
Colliding gravitational plane waves : Bell-Szekeres solution (2005).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Kıvanç Özgören, MS
Gödel's metric and its generalization (2005).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Şener Özönder, MS
Viable higher derivative theories (2007).
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bayram Tekin.

Ahmet Emre Onuk, MS
Collision of gravitational waves: axi-symmetric pp-waves (2007).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Atalay Karasu.

Kadir Can Erbaş, MS
Some properties and conserved quantities of the short pulse equation (2008).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ayşe Karasu.