Professor Mete H Soner
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
College of Science
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Email: msoner.c@ksu.edu.sa
College of Management
Sabanci University
Orhanli, Tuzla
Istanbul, Turkey
URL: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/msoner/
Education
1981–1985 Brown University Providence, RI
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1986.
M.Sc., Applied Mathematics, 1983.
1977–1981 Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering.
B.Sc., Mathematics.
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Employments
2008-Present King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia
Professor of Mathematics, College of Science
2007–present
Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey
Işık İnselbağ Professor
2000–2007
Koc University Istanbul, Turkey
Dean, Professor of Mathematics and Finance
Dean, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, 2002-present.
Department of Mathematics.
1998–2000
Princeton University Princeton, NJ
Paul M. Whythes `55 Professor of Finance and Engineering
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.
Bendheim Centre for Finance
1986–1998 Carnegie
Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Professor, 1992.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor, 1990.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Assistant Professor, 1986.
1985–1986
Institute for Math. and App. Minneapolis, MN
Research Associate
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Research
Current interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; asymptotic analysis of Ginzburg-Landau type systems, viscosity solutions, and mathematical finance. Currently I was involved in three European Networks; one on partial differential equations HYKE, one on front propagation FRONTS, and the other on mathematical finance, AMaMeF. In the first two, I was part of the team from Crete. In August 2008, I received an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Research Grant for an amount of 880,560 Euros. This was the only successful application from Turkey.
Awards & Honours
ERC Advanced Grant: November 2008-October 2013.
Invited Talk, 5th European Congress of Mathematics, June 2008.
Thompson-Scientific, Highly-cited researcher, 2004 (only scientist from Turkey in this list) http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/home.cgi .
TUBITAK-TWAS (Turkish Science and Technology Foundation) Science Award, 2002.
Member Turkish Academy of Sciences, 2001.
Paul M. Whythes ’55 Professor or Finance and Engineering, 1998-2000.
Grants
Professor Soner has been approved for a start up grant from King Saud University, to pursue research activities within his specialist research area.
Throughout my tenure in the United States I had continuous support from the National Science Foundation and also from the Air Force Office of Research for six years. I was the Associate Director for a large grant (nearly 3 million dollars) during 1995-1998 funded by the Army Research Office and the NSF. This grant was the core of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carngei Mellon. I was one of the two Co-PI’s for the continuation grant. Following is the list of grants received or membership to research networks since 1998.
