Prof. Dr. Atalay KARASU Tel: 0 (312) 210 3295 Fax: 0 (312) 210 5099 Room: 314 e-mail: karasu@metu.edu.tr www: http://www.metu.edu.tr/~karasu/ Address: Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bolumu 06531 Ankara TURKIYE
Ph.D., 1988, METU
M.S., 1983, METU
B.S., 1980, METU

Main Interest

Einstein equations in higher dimensions. Harmonic mappings. Sigma models. Integrability and symmetries of nonlinear partial differential equations. Generalized symmetries and recursion operators.

Recent or Key Publications

• R.J. Gleiser, M. Gürses, A. Karasu, Ö. Sarıoğlu
  Closed timelike curves and geodesics of Gödel-type metrics
  CLASSICAL & QUANT GRAV 23(7): 2653-2664 APR 2006
• Gürses M, Karasu A, Sarıoğlu Ö
  Godel -Type Metrics in Various Dimensions
  CLASSICAL & QUANT GRAV 22(9): 1527-1543 MAY 2005
• Karasu-Kalkanlı A, Karasu A, Sakovich SY
  A strange recursion operator for a new integrable system of coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations
  ACTA APPL MATH 83: 85-94 JUL 2004
• Gürses M, İpekoğlu Y, Karasu A, Şentürk C
  Higher Dimensional Bell-Szekeres Metric
  PHYS REV D 68 (8): art.No.084007 OCT 2003
• Gürses M, Kahya E O, Karasu A
  Higher dimensional metrics of colliding gravitational plane waves
  PHYS REV D 66 (2): art.No.024029 JUL 2002
• Gürses M, Karasu A, Turhan R
  Time dependent recursion operators and symmetries
  J NONLINEAR MATH PHYS 9 (2): 210-228 MAY 2002
• Gürses M, Karasu A, Turhan R
  Non-autonomous Svinolupov-Jordan KdV systems
  J PHYS A : MATH GEN 34 (28): 5705-5711 JUL 20 2001
• Karasu-Kalkanlı A, Karasu A, Sakovich SY
  Integrability of a generalized Ito system: The Painleve test
  J PHYS SOC JPN 70 (5): 1165-1166 MAY 2001
• Gürses M, Karasu A
  Some higher-dimensional vacuum solutions
  CLASSICAL & QUANT GRAV 18 (3): 509-516 FEB 7 2001