Türker Özsarı is a faculty member at the Mathematics Department of Bilkent University. He taught at Doğuş University, UNC-Charlotte, and IZTECH, and he was also a visiting faculty at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Virginia, his MS in Mathematics, as well as his BS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Engineering from Koç University.

Dr. Özsarı’s research fields are analysis of partial differential equations and control theory, in particular, design, analysis, and controllability of initial-boundary value problems (IBVPs) associated with spatio-temporal phenomena in applied sciences. He is a member of the Analysis Research Group at Bilkent. Dr. Özsarı is the recipient of 2020 Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) given by the Science Academy, Turkey and the 2021 Research Incentive Award given by METU Parlar Foundation. Currently, his research is funded through TÜBİTAK’s 1001 Research Grant (122F084). He organized the workshop series Nonlinear PDEs in Applied Mathematics, sponsored by the International Center for Theoretical Physics – Eurasian Centre for Advanced Research (ICTP-ECAR) and Turkish Mathematical Society.

Dr. Özsarı is teaching Math 214 (Advanced Calculus II) and Math 225 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) in Spring 2024. You can click here to see other courses taught by him over the past few years at Bilkent.

Recent articles (Click here for the full list):

  • Low-regularity solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the spatial quarter-plane (with D. Mantzavinos), under review, 32 pp. arXiv
  • Qualitative behavior of damped and viscoelastic linear waves exposed to external Neumann manipulation (with I. Susuzlu), under review, 36 pp.
  • Finite dimensional backstepping controller design (with V.K. Kalantarov and K.C. Yılmaz), conditionally accepted to IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 28 pp. arXiv
  • Local well-posedness of the higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the half-line: single boundary condition case (with A. Alkın and D. Mantzavinos), Stud. Appl. Math. 152 (2024), no.1, 203-248 DOI
  • Numerical computation of Neumann controls for the heat equation on a finite interval (with K. Kalimeris and N. Dikaios), IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 69 (2024), no. 1, 161–173 DOI
  • Existence of unattainable states for Schrödinger type flows on the half-line (with K. Kalimeris), IMA J. Math. Control Inform., 40 (2023), no.4, 789-803. DOI

Graduate and Postdoc Scholarships: 

M.S., Ph.D., and Postdoc Scholarships are available in Control of PDEs. Click here for more information.