Betül Tanbay

Education History

Ph.D Mathematics     University of California Berkeley      1989

Ph.Cand. Logic and the Methodology of Science     University of California Berkeley    1986

M.S. Mathematics     University of California Berkeley     1984

Licence de Mathematiques     Universite Louis Pasteur Strasbourg     1982

Positions

Boğaziçi University,
Professor         1999 -
Associate Professor         1993-1999
Assistant Professor         1989-1993

University of California, Berkeley,
Visiting scholar         2000-2001

Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris VI
Visiting Professor         2000

University of Kansas,
Visiting Assistant Professor         1991

Pennsylvania State University,
Visiting Assistant Professor         1990

University of California, Berkeley,
Summer Instructor         1988-1989
Research Assistant         1987-1988
National Science Foundation Junior Specialist          1988
Teaching Assistant         1983-1986
Turkish Mathematics Society
Executive Board         2000

Boğaziçi University - TÜBİTAK (Turkish National Research Council)
Basic Sciences Research Institute Executive Board          1999 -
Basic Sciences Research Institute Advisory Board          1998 -

European Women in Mathematics,
Standing Committee Member         1997 -
Regional Coordinator         1994 -

Awards (Fellowships)

Boğaziçi University Research Fund          1999-2000
Tübitak Work Group         1992
Tübitak Research Project         1991-1992

Memberships

American Mathematical Society        1987-
Turkish Mathematical Society         1990-

Selected Papers

1. B. Tanbay, A Survey on the Schur Property, Revue Roumaine des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees, tome XLV, no 4, 2000.

2. B. Tanbay, Direct Sums and the Schur Property, Tr. J. of Math., 22, 1998

3. B. Tanbay, Approximating the Averaging Operator, Tr. J. of Math., 17, 1993.

4. B. Tanbay, Pure State Extensions of Algebras of Bounded Linear Operators and Related Problems, Tübitak TBAG-1078, 1992.

5. B. Tanbay, Strong Compressibility on Algebras of Operators, Tr. J. of Math., 16, 1992.

6. B. Tanbay, Pure State Extensions and the Compressibility of the l1-algebra, Proceedings of AMS, 113, 1991.

7. Ph.D Thesis

B. Tanbay, Extensions of Pure States on Algebras of Operators, Ph.D thesis, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1989. Thesis supervisor: Robert Solovay

Books
R. Herman - B. Tanbay (editors), Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Operator Algebras, Mathematical Physics and Low Dimensional Topology Research Notes in Mathematics, A.K.Peters, 1993.