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.

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