CURRICULUM VITAE
Mefharet Kocatepe (nee Alpseymen)
1. PERSONAL DATA
ADDRESS: Bilkent University
Department of Mathematics
06800 Bilkent, Ankara
TURKEY
PHONE: +90-312 290 1255
FAX: +90-312 290 1797
E-MAIL: kocatepe@fen.bilkent.edu.tr
URL: http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~kocatepe
MARITAL STATUS: Married
2. ACADEMIC DEGREES
Ph.D., Mathematics 1978
University of Michigan, U.S.A.
M.S., Mathematics 1973
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
B.S., Mathematics 1971
Middle Wast Technical University, Turkey
3. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
12/1971 - 08/1973 Teaching Assistant,
Department of Mathematics,
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
09/1975 - 07/1976 Teaching Assistant,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
09/1977 - 05/1978 Teaching Assistant,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
10/1978 - 03/1980 Instructor,
Department of Mathematics,
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
03/1980 - 10/1985 Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
10/1985 - 08/1986 Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
09/1986 - 02/1992 Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey
02/1992 - Present Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey
4. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
NATO Scholarship for Ph.D. 1973-1975
University of Michigan
Teaching Assistantship 1975-1976
University of Michigan
Barbour Scholarship for Asian Women 1976-1977
University of Michigan
Teaching Assistantship 1977-1978
Sedat Simavi Foundation
Science Award 1985
Bilkent University
Distinguished Teaching Award 1997
5. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nuclear Frechet Spaces
Structure Theory of Köthe Spaces
Spaces of Whitney Functions on Compact Sets
6. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
M. Alpseymen, "A generalization of Dragilev's theorem", Journal für die
reine und angewandte Mathematik, 276, 124-129 (1975).
E. Dubinsky, N. DeGrande-DeKimpe, M. Alpseymen, "Basic sequences
in some stable, nuclear Lf(b,r)-spaces", Proceedings of the Koninklijke
Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series A (Indigationes
Math.), 41, 203-215 (1979)
M. Alpseymen, M.S. Ramanujan, T. Terzioglu, "Subspaces of some
nuclear sequence spaces", Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse
 Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series A (Indigationes Math.), 41, 217-224 (1979).
M. Alpseymen, "Basic sequences in stable, infinite type power series
spaces", Studia Mathematica, 70, 21-26 (1981).
M. Alpseymen, "A negative result on subspaces of a nuclear infinite
type power series space", METU Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences,
17, 11-29 (1984).
M. (Alpseymen) Kocatepe, "On Dragilev spaces and the functor Ext",
Archiv der Mathematik, 44, 438-445 (1985).
M. Kocatepe, "Some counterexamples on Dragilev spaces", Doga
Turkish Journal of Mathematics, 10, 136-141 (1986).
M. Kocatepe, "An isomorphism theorem for Dragilev spaces", Archiv
der Mathematik, 50, 281-286 (1988).
M. Kocatepe, "Classification of Dragilev spaces of type -1 and 0",
Mathematica Balkanica New Series, 2, 266-275 (1988).
M. Kocatepe, Z. Nurlu, "Some special Köthe spaces", in Advances in
the theory of Fréchet spaces, ed.by T. Terzioglu (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1989),
269-296.
M. Kocatepe, "A note on the vanishing of the functor Ext1 for Köthe spaces",
manuscripta mathematica, 71, 113-119 (1991).
Z. Ertugrul, M. Kocatepe, "On the existence of a pseudo-regular basis
in some Köthe spaces", Turkish Journal of Mathematics, 19, 48-55 (1995).
L. Onural, M. Kocatepe, "Family of scaling chirp functions, diffraction and
holography", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 43, 1568-1578 (1995).
M. Kocatepe, V.P. Zahariuta, "Köthe spaces modeled on spaces of
C infinity functions", Studia Mathematica, 121, 1-14 (1996).
A. Goncharov, M. Kocatepe, "Isomorphic classification of the spaces
of Whitney functions", Michigan Mathematical Journal, 44, 555-577 (1997).
B. Arslan, M. Kocatepe, "An application of linear topological invariants",
Turkish Journal of Mathematics, 21, 343-356 (1997).
A. Goncharov, M. Kocatepe, "A continuum of pairwise nonisomorphic spaces of
Whitney functins on Cantor-type sets", Linear Topological Spaces and Complex
Analysis 3, METU-TUBITAK, 57-64 (1997).
B. Arslan, M. Kocatepe, "The quasi-equivalence problem for a class of
Köthe spaces", Note di matematica, 17, 113-120 (1997).
B. Arslan, A. Goncharov, M. Kocatepe, "Sequence space representations of spaces
of Whitney functions", Results in Mathematics, 37, 3-12 (2000).
B. Arslan, A. Goncharov, M. Kocatepe, "Spaces of Whitney functions on
Cantor-type sets", Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 54 (2), 225-238 (2002).
M. Kesir, M. Kocatepe, "Existence of basis in some Whitney function
   spaces", Results in Mathematics, 48 (1/2), (2005).
7. ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
07/1985 - 09/1986 Assistant Chairman
Department of Mathematics
Middle East Technical University
10/1994 - present Chairman
Department of Mathematics
Bilkent University