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Name:  Serdar Kuyucak

Address:  School of Physics A28
               University of Sydney
               NSW 2006, Australia

Phone:    (61) - 2 - 9036 5306 

Fax:        (61) - 2 - 9351 7726

E-mail:    serdar@physics.usyd.edu.au

Place of Birth: Merzifon - Turkey

Date of Birth: 19 February, 1954

Present Employment: Associate Professor, School of Physics, University of Sydney
 

Education

• B.Sc. in Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1976

 
• Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Yale University, New Haven, 1982

• Senior Lecturer
  

      School of Physics, University of Sydney
      2003-2007


• Senior Fellow
  

• Australian Research Fellow

      Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE, ANU
      1992 - 1996

• Research Fellow

      School of Physics, University of Melbourne
      1985 - 1991

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

      Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany
      1983 - 1985
 
• Postdoctoral Fellow

      Department of Physics, Yale University
      1983
 

• Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics
• Fellow, American Physical Society
   

• Referee for:  Biophysical Journal, Molecular Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E
• Assessor: Australian Research Council, Discovery Grants
• Member, Physical Sciences Library Advisory Comittee, ANU, 1995 - date.
• Member, Organising Committee, 1997 NUPP Summer School, Robertson, NSW, 10-14 February 1997.
• Member, Organising Committee, Int. Workshop on Heavy-Ion Collisions at Near-Barrier Energies,
South Durras, NSW, 17-21 March 1997.
• Convenor, Theory Workshop on Subbarrier Fusion and Related Topics, ANU, 24-27 March 1997.
• Convenor, 11th Physics Summer School on Frontiers in Nuclear Physics, ANU, 12-23 January 1998.
• Member,  Scientific Organising Committee, XXII Int. Colloquim on Group Theoretical Methods
in Physics, Hobart, 13-18 July 1998.
• Convenor, 14th Physics Summer School on Biophysics, ANU, 15-26 January 2001.

 

Lecture courses:

• Freshmen Physics, South Central Community College, Connecticut, USA, 1981-1983.
• Quantum Mechanics (second year),  U. Melbourne, 1986 and 1987.
• Nuclear Structure (Honours), U. Melbourne, 1990 and 1991.
• Nuclear Structure (Post-graduate), ANU, 1993.
• Membrane Physics (Physics C28) ANU, 1995.
• Classical Electrodynamics (Post-graduate), ANU, 1996.
• Classical Electrodynamics (Honours), ANU, 2000, 2002, 2003
  
• Advenced Electromagnetic Theory (Honours), USyd. 2003 - 2005
  
• Computational Science (second year), USyd. 2004
• Biological Physics (third year), USyd. 2004-2007
• Theory and Simulation of Biosystems, USyd. 2006-2007
  

• Vi-Sieu Lac,* "Studies on Interacting Boson Systems", University of Melbourne, 1992.
• Jonathan Bennett,* "Description of Nuclear Structure Effects in Subbarrier Fusion by the
 Interacting Boson Model", University of Wisconsin, 1994.
• Siu-Cheung Li , "Investigation of Deformed Nuclei in Interacting Boson Models", ANU, 1996.
• Matthew Roberts, "Algebraic Approach to Molecular Spectroscopy", ANU, 1997.
• Matthew Hoyles, "Computer Simulation of Biological Ion Channels", ANU, 1999.
• Ben Corry,* "Brownian Dynamics Studies of Ion Channels", ANU, 2002.
• Po-Chia Chen, "Simulation studies of Protein-Ligand binding", USyd. Started in 2007
  

* Joint supervisor
 

• 1986       PSC-CUNY grant to visit Baruch College, CUNY, USA

• 1987       DFG grant to visit the University of Tuebingen, Germany

• 1989-91  "Boson models of nuclear structure and reactions"
                ARC large grant (with I. Morrison)


• 1992-96  "Studies of nuclear structure and reactions using the 1/N expansion formalism"
                ARC research fellowship


• 1993-95  "Theoretical Studies of subbarrier fusion using the 1/N expansion formalism"
                DIST grants for collaboration with the University of Wisconsin


• 1994       "Superdeformed nuclei and the interacting boson model"
                AAS-JSPS exchange grant to visit the University of Tokyo


• 1995-96  "Study of superdeformed nuclei in boson models"
                DIST grants for collaboration with the University of Tokyo


• 1996       "Algebraic studies in the interacting boson-fermion model"
                 DIST grant to visit GANIL, France


• 1997       "Algebraic studies of superdeformation and fusion/fission problems in nuclei"
                AAS-JSPS exchange grant to visit the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku


• 1997-99  "Dynamical modelling of transport of ions across membrane channels"
                ARC large grant (with S-H. Chung)


• 1998       "Octupole vibrations and deformations in collective nuclei"
                Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute grant


• 2000       "Octupole  excitations in nuclear structure and reactions"
                AAS-JSPS exchange grant to visit the University of Tohoku


• 2001       "Permeation models in ion channels"
                Monbusho visiting professorship to visit National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan

• 2004       "Exploiting temperature dependence in studies of biological processes"
                University of Sydney SESQUI R&D grant

• 2004-06  "Realistic models of permeation in ion channels"
                ARC discovery grant

• 2004-06  "Hierarchical modeling of protein interactions"
                ARC discovery grant (with T. Bastug)

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