Attila Aşkar is a Turkish mathematician and former president of the Koç University in Rumelifeneri, İstanbul, Turkey during 2001 and 2009.
Education
Attila Aşkar was graduated from Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, Turkey in 1961. He received his Diplom in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1966, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics founded by A. Cemal Eringen under the supervision of Ahmet Çakmak at Princeton University in the United States in 1969.
Career
He was the head in the department of Mathematics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. After losing the Boğaziçi University Rector (president) elections in Boğaziçi University he moved to Koç University"s "İstinye Campus" in İstanbul as a professor of Mathematics and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Aşkar then was appointed as the president and provost (rector) of the Koç University.
Visiting positions
He held many visiting research scientist and professor positions at prestigious universities like Brown University, Princeton University, Paris University VI, the Max-Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Doctor Aşkar"s recent research interests included scattering of classical and quantum waves, wavelet analysis and molecular dynamics. He is the author of over eighty research journal articles and two books
Representative scientific journal publications
A. Aşkar, A. Çakmak, and H. Rabitz, Nodal structure and global behavior of scattering wave functions, J. Chemistry Physical, 72, 5287, DOI: 10.1063/1.439739, (1980)
M. Duff, H. Rabitz, A. Aşkar, A. Çakmak, and M. Ablowitz, A Comparison Between Finite Element Methods and Spectral Methods as Applied to Bound State Problems, J. Chemistry
Physical, 72, 1543, DOI: 10.1063/1.439381, (1980)
A. Aşkar, A. South. Çakmak, and H. Rabitz, Finite Element Methods for Reactive Scattering, Chemistry
Physical, 33, 367, DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(78)87134-1, (1978)
H. Rabitz, A. Aşkar, and A. South. Çakmak, The Use of Global Wavefunctions in Scattering Theory, Chemistry Physical, 29, 61, DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(78)85061-7, (1978)
Doctor Aşkar is also on the Board of Directors at the Center for Excellence in, a non-profit organization located in McLean, Virginia.
Membership
Doctor Aşkar is also on the Board of Directors at the Center for Excellence in, a non-profit organization located in McLean, Virginia.