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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, Canada A1C 5S7
Office: HH-3032
tel: (709) 864-8790
fax: (709) 864-3010
email: serpil at dot mun dot ca
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Serpil Kocabiyik
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D. Western Ontario 1987
M.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1981
B.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1979
Petro-Canada
Young Innovator Award, 2000
CAIMS Arthur Beaumont
Distinguished Service Award, 2006
" Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women "
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938)
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Serpil Kocabiyik, Istanbul Modern Art Gallery Cafe (June 2005), Istanbul, Turkey
Photo by Ergun Kocabiyik (Literary Editor and Writer,
Bosphorus University Press)
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Biographical information
Dr. Kocabiyik completed her baccalaureate and master's degrees in
mathematics at Middle East Technical University in 1979 and 1981
respectively. She obtained her doctorate in Applied Mathematics from
the University of Western Ontario in 1987 where she stayed on for a
few more years as a postdoctoral fellow before moving to Manitoba as
an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics in 1995.
Dr. Kocabiyik joined the department as an Associate Professor in
1999 and became a full Professor in 2005. She teaches mainly in the
areas of fluid mechanics, partial differential equations and
numerical solution of differential equations. Her research is an
interdisciplinary blend of classical applied mathematics, theoretical
fluid mechanics and computational science. Her recent research
focuses on several classes of unsteady separated flows caused by
fluid, bluff body and free-surface interaction with application to
vortex-induced vibrations. She is particularly interested in a good
correspondence between computational, analytical and experimental
studies. Consequently, she adopts a research methodology which is a
strong mix of applied analysis, numerical simulation and comparison
with experiment.
Dr. Kocabiyik has published about 80 refereed research papers and
has given over 100 lectures in 15 different countries around the
world. She has received over $2M in peer-reviewed individual and
team research grants. She is on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of
Physics and the Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences.
Dr. Kocabiyik has provided research training to more than 30 students, undergraduates,
graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. She has played a key role in the explosive growth
of the number of graduate students in the department, which has gone from 17 to 50 (1999-09).
In addition to student mentoring and giving of herself as a role model, her contributions include
the personal mentoring of junior faculty and young scholars on strategies for success in academe.
Dr. Kocabiyik's career in academia is marked by a number of
'firsts'. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics at Western (1987). In 2000, she became the first woman in
Canada to win the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. She is the
first woman full professor of mathematics at Memorial (2005). She is
a lifetime member of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Society and was honored with their Arthur Beaumont Distinguished
Service Award in 2006, and became the first recipient of this award
outside the B.C.-Alberta-Ontario nexus. In 2010, as a co-chairwoman
of the Society's annual meeting, her fund-raising activities resulted
in the highest amount of funding ever recorded since the Society's
inception in 1974.
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