Selman Akbulut
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Selman Akbulut (born 1949) is a Turkish mathematician, specializing in research in topology, and geometry. He was a professor at Michigan State University until February 2020.
Career
In 1975, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley as a student of Robion Kirby. In topology, he has worked on handlebody theory, low-dimensional manifolds,[1] symplectic topology, G2 manifolds. In the topology of real-algebraic sets, he and Henry C. King proved that every compact piecewise-linear manifold is a real-algebraic set; they discovered new topological invariants of real-algebraic sets.[2]
He was a visiting scholar several times at the Institute for Advanced Study (in 1975-76, 1980–81, 2002, and 2005).[3]
On February 14, 2020, Akbulut was removed from his tenured position at MSU by the Board of Trustees, after disputes over his teaching allotments and communications with colleagues.[4][5][6]
Contributions
He has developed 4-dimensional handlebody techniques, settling conjectures and solving problems about 4-manifolds, such as a conjecture of Christopher Zeeman,[7] the Harer–Kas–Kirby conjecture, a problem of Martin Scharlemann,[8] and problems of Sylvain Cappell and Julius Shaneson.[9][10][11] He constructed an exotic compact 4-manifold (with boundary) from which he discovered "Akbulut corks".[12][13][14][15]
His most recent results concern the 4-dimensional smooth Poincaré conjecture.[16] He has supervised 14 Ph.D. students as of 2019. He has more than 100 papers and three books published, and several books edited.
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External links
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- Akbulut's homepage
- Akbulut's papers at ArXiv
- Akbulut-King invariants
- Real algebraic geometry
- Akbulut cork
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- ↑ S. Akbulut and H.C. King, Topology of real algebraic sets, MSRI Publications, 25. Springer-Verlag, New York (1992) Template:Isbn
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