Link to Main Page   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




Serpil Kocabiyik
Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. Western Ontario 1987
M.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1981
B.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1979

Winner of the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2000

CAIMS Arthur Beaumont
Distinguished Service Award, 2006









" Instrumental; or mechanical science
  is the noblest and above all others,
  the most useful "

  Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
      Serpil Kocabiyik, Istanbul Modern Art Gallery Cafe (June 2005), Istanbul, Turkey
   Photo by Ergun Kocabiyik (Literary Editor and Writer, Bosphorus University Press)


POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS/GRADUATE STUDENTS' ACHIVEMENTS:

  • Canan Bozkaya (Ph.D. Mathematics - METU 2008)
    1. Winner of the joint award with Elizabeth Liverman (second place) in the best poster competition at the 2010 CAIMS*SCMAI
      (the 2010 CAIMS*SCMAI Award Ceremony Photos: photo #1 (Beth, Canan); photo #2 (Beth, Gina, Canan); and photo #3 (Beth, Gina, Canan))


    2. The Mustafa N. Parlar Doctoral Dissertation Award (2008)

    3. Gold Medal in Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (2002)

    4. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2008-10)

    5. Travel grant for International Association for Boundary Element Method Conference, Graz, Austria (2006)

    6. The Integrated Ph.D. Scholarship, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (2003-07)

    7. M.Sc. Scholarship, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (2002-03)

  • Larisa Mironova ( Ph.D. Mathematics - 2008)

    1. 2006 Recipient of the Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies at Memorial.
      (2006 SGS Award Ceremony Photos: photo #1 (Larisa, Serpil, Eddy) and photo #2) (Oleg, Noreen, Larisa)


    2. 2002 Recipient of the MIT's Young Researcher Fellowship, Cambridge, MA.


    3. 1995 Recipient of Samsung's Young Researcher Award, Novosibirsk, Russia.


    4. Winner of the 1995 Altai Region Math. Olympiad (1st place) in Russia.


    5. Winner of the 1992 Kazakhstan Region Mathematics Olympiad (2nd place) in Russia.
  • Oleg Gubanov ( M.Sc. Computational Science, 2007)

    1. Winner of NSERC's 2007 Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-D3) (2007-10).

    2. 2006 Recipient of the Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies at Memorial.
      (2006 SGS Award Ceremony Photos: photo #1 (Chris, Oleg, Serpil, Eddy) and photo #2 (Oleg, Noreen, Larisa))


    3. 2002 Recipient of Brainbench C++ Certificate, Novosibirsk, Russia.


    4. 2001 Recipient of Brainbench UML Certificate, Novosibirsk, Russia.


    5. 2000 Recipient of Brainbench C++ Certificate, Novosibirsk, Russia.


    6. Winner of the 1994 Kirgizia Region Physics Olympiad (1st place) in Russia.
  • Karl Lawrence ( M.Sc. Computational Science, 2004)

    1. Canada Graduate Scholarship at the Ph.D. level (2004-06).


    2. The Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies at Memorial University (2004).


    3. The American Physical Society (APS) travel grant to attend the 56th Annual Meeting of the APS - Division of Fluid Dynamics, East Rutherford, New Jersey (November 23-25, 2003).


    4. The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) travel grant to attend the 1st joint Meeting of CAIMS and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Montreal, Quebec (June 16-20, 2003).


    5. NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-A) (2002-04).


    6. F.A. Aldrich Fellowship at Memorial University (2002-03).
  • Qasem Al-Mdallal ( Ph.D. Mathematics, 2004)

    1. The Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies at Memorial University (2005).


    2. The Graduate Students' Union Outstanding Research Award at Memorial (2004).


    3. Albert George Hatcher Memorial Scholarship (2003-04).


    4. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 17-20, 2003).
  • Karl Lawrence, Qasem Al-Mdallal won three joint awards (first place; second place; runner-up prize), respectively, in the best poster
        competitions at
    1. The 1st Annual Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Atlantic Interchange, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (March 24, 2003),


    2. The 4th MITACS Conference and Ottawa Interchange, Ottawa, Ontario (May 8-10, 2003),


    3. The 1st joint Meeting of CAIMS and SIAM, Montreal, Quebec (June 16-20, 2003).
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