CURRICULUM VITAE

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences,

Ozyegin University Engineering Faculty Office: 205

Nisantepe Mah. Orman Sok. 34794 Cekmekoy

ISTANBUL - TURKEY

bora.isildak@ozyegin.edu.tr

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: April 6th 1982

Place of birth: Istanbul, Turkey

Nationality: Turkish Citizen

Spoken Languages: Turkish (Native), English(Fluent)

EDUCATION

1. •Ph.D., Physics, 2011, Bogazici University, Istanbul
   

2. •Dissertation Topic: “Measurement of the inclusive dijet production rate,as a function of the  dijet
   

    invariant mass, with the CMS detector in proton- proton collisions at √s=7 TeV”

1. •B.S., Physics, 2005, Bogazici University, Istanbul
   
   

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. •QCD @ Hadron Colliders
   

2. •Jet Physics
   

3. •Lattice QCD
   

4. •Parallel Computation on GPUs and Physics Applications
   

5. •Statistical Methods in Data Analysis
   
   

COMPUTING SKILLS

1. •Programming Languages: C and C++
   

2. •Data Analysis and Scientific: ROOT, CMS Software, Latex, Chroma, CUDA
   

3. •Scripting Languages: Python, Shell Scripting, Javascript
   

4. •Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Microsoft Windows
   

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1. • 2012 - present Assistant Professor at Ozyegin University Department of Natural and
   

Mathematical Sciences

• 2011 - 2012 post-doctoral researcher at Ozyegin University

• 2006 - 2011Research and Teaching Assistant at Bogazici University Physics Department

SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS

1. •2008 - present Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
   

AWARDS & PROJECTS

1. •2014- 2016 TÜBİTAK 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Award for the project entitled “Advanced Computations
   

    and Charmed Hadrons in Lattice QCD”

1. •2013 - 2016 Turkish Atomic Energy Authority CERN Studies “Standard Model Precision Measurements at CMS at LHC, Beyond the Standard
   

    Model Physics and Supersymmetry (SUSY)”

1. •2009 - 2013 Turkish Atomic Energy Authority CERN Studies Grant for the project entitled “Jet Pair Studies at CMS”
   

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PROCEEDINGS

Disclaimer

From Wikipedia:

“The rise of shared authorship has been attributed to Big Science—scientific experiments that require collaboration and specialization of many individuals.”

Here is a list of works which I have a substantial contribution.

1. •Electromagnetic structure of charmed baryons in Lattice QCD.  By K.U. Can, G. Erkol, B. Isildak, M. Oka, T.T. Takahashi.
   

    [arXiv:1310.5915 [hep-lat]]. 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)125. JHEP 1405 (2014) 125.

1. •Electromagnetic properties of doubly charmed baryons in Lattice QCD. By K.U. Can, G. Erkol, B. Isildak, M. Oka, T.T. Takahashi.
   

    [arXiv:1306.0731 [hep-lat]]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.09.024. Phys.Lett. B726 (2013) 703-709.

1. •Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in $pp$ Collisions at √s=7 TeV.  By CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.).
   

    [arXiv:1106.0208 [hep-ex]]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.132001. Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 132001.

1. •Measurement of the differential dijet production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV.
   

    By CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan et al.).[arXiv:1104.1693 [hep-ex]]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.027. Phys.Lett. B700 (2011) 187-206.

1. •Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS. By CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan et al.).
   

    [arXiv:1010.0203 [hep-ex]].10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.211801, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.029902. Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 211801.

1. •Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in $pp$ Collisions at √s=7 TeV.
   

    By CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan et al.). [arXiv:1010.4439 [hep-ex]]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.262001. Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 262001.

1. •Recent Results from the CMS Experiment at the LHC By Bora  Isildak, EPJ Web of Conferences 80 00020 (2014), DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20148000020
   

2. •Recent results on QCD and heavy ion physics from CMS. By Bora Isildak for the  CMS Collaboration 10.5506/APhysPolBSupp.
   

    Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 4 (2011) 579-584.v

TALKS AT CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

1. •"Jet Measurements in CMS", invited at METU-IPM2015, 29 Sep-3 Oct 2015 (Turkey)
   

2. •"Jet measurements in CMS", parallel at EDSBlois2015, 29 Jun-3 Jul 2015 (France)
   

3. •"Dijet Scouting" at “CMS Exotica Workshop 2014, 12-14 Nov 2014, CIEMAT (Spain)”.
   

4. •"Recent results from CMS" at "QCD@Work: International Workshop on QCD - Theory and Experiment, 16-19 Jun 2014, Giovinazzo (Italy)".
   

5. •"Latest QCD results on p+p collisions from CMS" at "5thExQCD: Excited QCD 2013, 3-9 Feb 2013, Bjelasnica Mountain Olympic Ski Center,
   

    Bjelasnica Mountain (Bosnia And Herzegovina)".

1. •"Latest QCD results from CMS p+p and Pb+Pb collisions" at "ExQCD12: Excited QCD 2012, 6-12 May 2012, Peniche (Portugal)".
   

2. •"Hard QCD results from CMS" at "TROIA11: 3rd International Conference on Hadron Physics, 22-25 Aug 2011, Çanakkale, Turkey”.
   

3. •"Measurement of the inclusive dijet production rate, as a function of the dijet invariant mass, with the CMS detector in proton-proton
   

     collisions at √s=7TeV" at "LHC students' poster session at next LHCC, 23 Mar 2011, Genève, Genève (Switzerland)”.

1. • "The CMS QCD-related results from the first LHC data" at "Excited QCD 2011, 20-25 Feb 2011, Les Houches, Rhône-Alpes (France)".
   
   

CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION

1. •YEFIST: İstanbul Yüksek Enerji Fiziği Çalıştayı, 26-27 Nisan 2014 (Member of the Organizing  Committee)
   

2. • IVth International Conference on Hadron Physics TROIA'14 01 - 05 July 2014  Canakkale Turkey 
   

3. (Member of the Organizing Committee - Scientific Secretary)
   

SEMINARS

1. •“CMS Deneyi'nde Veri Keşfi ve Jet Çifti Kütlesinde Rezonans Araştırmaları”, 10.04.2014, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü
   

2. •“CMS Deneyi'nde Veri Keşfi ve Jet Çifti Kütlesinde Rezonans Araştırmaları”, 10.04.2014, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Fizik Bölümü
   

3. •“Measurement of the inclusive dijet production rate,as a function of the dijet invariant mass, with the CMS detector in proton- proton collisions at √s=7 TeV”, 28.03.2013,  Middle East Technical University Physics Department
   

4. •“Hard QCD Results from CMS Experiment at LHC”, 06.04.2012, Dogus University Physics Department