Ph.D. Mathematics, December 1998, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Advisor: Professor Sylvia Wiegand.

Dissertation title: Prime Ideals in Birational Extensions.

Research Interests: Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry,Algebraic Number Theory, Commutative Ring Theory, and Computational Algebra.

M.S. Mathematics, 1991, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

B.S. Mathematics, 1985, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Associate Professor August 2005 – present.

Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana.

Assistant Professor August 1999 – 2005.

Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana.

Lecturer January 1999 – July 1999.

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Graduate Teaching Assistant August 1994 – December 1997 & August 1998 – December 1998.

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Graduate Teaching Assistant January 1998 – May 1998.

Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Teaching Assistant 1985 – 1988.

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Publications

1. On the ascent of ACCP to simple overrings with A.J.Hetzel, Communications in Algebra 33 no 9(2005), pp. 3149-3155.

2. Prime ideals in birational extensions of two-dimensional domains over orders, with S.Wiegand, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 201 (2005), pp. 142-153.

3. Linearality of Polynomial Models of Discrete Time Series with A. Li, IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization (2005).

4. Completions, Valuations and Ultrapowers of Noetherian Domains, with B. Olberding and Jay Shapiro, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 197(2005), pp. 213-237.

5. Projective presentations of finitely generated torsion modules, with B. Olberding, Communications in Algebra 33 no 1(2005), pp. 201-212.

6. Ultraproducts of commutative ringswith B. Olberding, Commutative Ring Theory and Applications 231(2002), pp.369-387.

7. Noetherian domains with the same prime ideal structure as the polynomials over the odd denominators rationals, with S. Wiegand, The Arabian Journal For Science and Engineering 26 (2001), pp. 187-199.

8. On the ascent of properties related to unique factorization domains with A.J. Hetzel, to appear in Communications in Algebra.

9. Prime ideals in birational extensions, dissertation.

Presentations

1. “On the ascent of ACCP to simple overrings’’, invited presentation at the Weekend Algebra Conference, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, November 2004.

2. “Spectra of birational extensions of polynomial rings”, invited departmental colloquim talk, Bogazici University, Turkey, May 2004.

3. “Completions, valuations and ultrapowers of Noetherian domains”, invited presentation at the Antalya Algebra Days IV, Antalya, Turkey, May 2004

4. “Ultrapowers of Noetherian domains”, invited presentation at the Weekend Algebra Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, November 2003.

5. “Projective presentations of finitely generated torsion modules”, invited presentation at the AMS Regional Meeting, Commutative Rings and Monoids Session, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2003.

6. “When locally isomorphic modules are stably isomorphic”, invited presentation atthe AMS Regional Meeting, Commutative Ring Theory Session, Chattanooga, TN, October 2001.

7. “Ultraproducts of commutative rings”, invited presentation at the AMS Regional Meeting, Commutative Algebra Session, Columbus, OH, September 2001.

8. “Prime ideals in birational extensions of two-dimensional domains over orders”, invited presentation at the Algebra Weekend Conference, Hattiesburg, MS, April2001.

9. “Prime ideals in birational extensions”, invited presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, Commutative Algebra Special Session, San Antonio, TX, January 1999.

Selected Service

1. Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006.

2. Secretary, Arts and Sciences College Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006.

3. Member of ULM Honors Council, 2005-2008.

4. Director, ULM Honors Program 2004-2005.

5. Co-director, ULM Honors Program 2003-2005.

6. Judge for 2001, 2003,and 2004 Region III Science and Engineering Fair.

7. Senator at Faculty Senate, 2000-2002.

8. Faculty Sponsor for Kappa Mu Epsilon, KME, since 2001.