Nurdan Kar

MATHEMATICIAN

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I am currently an instructor in the Department of Mathematics at Bilkent University in Türkiye. I received a BSc in mathematics, and an MSc and PhD in applied mathematics. While pursuing my PhD, I held a position as a Research Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, from January 2023 to January 2024, and as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics at Bilkent University for the Fall 2024 semester.

I organized a Mathematical Modeling Symposium, sponsored by the Turkish Mathematical Society- MAD Fund.

My given name, Nurdan, which has an Arabic origin, can be interpreted as “from light” or “made of light,” while my surname, Kar, which has a Turkish origin, means “snow.” For the correct pronunciation of my name, please refer to this link.