Join us for the panel on mathematics education, comparing French and Turkish approaches, at Galatasaray High School’s Tevfik Fikret Hall on Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM).

The event brings together two distinguished speakers: René Cori, former Director of Mathematics Education Research in Paris and President of the Aggregation Jury, will share insights into recent French educational reforms and their impact on university-level education. Alongside him, Dr. Abdulkadir Erdoğan from Eskişehir University, who designed Turkey’s new mathematics program, will present its vision and future directions.

The panel, moderated by Özer Öztürk from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, will be conducted in English with French and Turkish translation support available. This event is particularly relevant for high school teachers and education professionals.

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This year I am helping the department organize bi-weekly departmental seminars. We aim to attract audience members from industry and computer science departments as well. Students of all levels are welcome. People not affiliated with Galatasaray are kindly requested to send an email to [email protected]. The calendar will be updated throughout the year with titles and abstracts.

Calendar Link

We had an very insightful day in Yıldız Teknik University, in the event co-organized with Pascale Roure. After talks of grad students, Alex Paseau and Fabian Fregel presented their new work titled Revisiting the Roots: Historical Mathematics and Contemporary Philosophy.

The workshop web page is here

We are happy to annouce our demo day, which will be held on 6th of May at Galatasaray University, showcasing our data platforme for studying seismic activities in Turkey.

Please visit the event web page

Boolstering Stochastic Gradient Descent with Model Building: SMB

(joint with Birbil, Martin, Öztoprak) This work provides a new optimizer taking care of second order approximations, challenging ADAM, SLS and SGD. If you make benchmark tests, feedbacks will be very much appreciated. See more at SMB github page