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==Controversy== |
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In 2015, a course that Akbulut was scheduled to teach was cancelled due to lack of enrollment |
In 2015, a course that Akbulut was scheduled to teach was cancelled due to alleged lack of enrollment and he was reassigned a different course. He still taught the initially assigned course, with 5 students (which was the minimum enrollment requirement at the time) and 2 visiting scholars regularly attending the class. However, Akbulut was penalized for teaching the initially assigned course, with a penalty of 10% salary reduction. Additionally, he started emailing his colleagues and graduate students that claimed that several professors were behaving fraudulently, which subjected him to dismissal charges. He has disputed the claims made against him. The dismissal hearings for Akbulut are scheduled starting August 16, 2019 with the possibility of termination.<ref name="Memorandum">{{cite web |last1=Duxbury |first1=Phillip |title=Dismissal for Cause Proceedings |url=https://selmanakbulut.com/dismissal.pdf |accessdate=13 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Dismissal">{{cite web |last1=Reifenberg |first1=John |title=Administrative Order |url=http://stopacademicabuse.com/FinalAdministrativeOrder7-16-2019.pdf |accessdate=13 August 2019}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:16, 16 August 2019
Selman Akbulut | |
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 Selman Akbulut at Oberwolfach in 2012. | |
| Born | 1949 Balıkesir, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | University of California |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | Akbulut cork |
Selman Akbulut (born 1949) is a Turkish mathematician and a Professor at Michigan State University. His research is in topology.
Career
In 1975 he earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley as a student of Robion Kirby. In topology, he has worked on handlebody theory, low-dimensional manifolds,[1] symplectic topology, G2 manifolds. In the topology of real-algebraic sets, he and Henry C. King proved that every compact piecewise-linear manifold is a real-algebraic set; they discovered new topological invariants of real-algebraic sets.[2]
He was a visiting scholar several times at the Institute for Advanced Study (in 1975-76, 1980–81, 2002, and 2005).[3]
Contributions
He has developed 4-dimensional handlebody techniques, settling conjectures and solving problems about 4-manifolds, such as a conjecture of Christopher Zeeman,[4] the Harer–Kas–Kirby conjecture, a problem of Martin Scharlemann,[5] and problems of Sylvain Cappell and Julius Shaneson.[6][7][8] He constructed an exotic compact 4-manifold (with boundary) from which he discovered "Akbulut corks".[9][10][11][12]
His most recent results concern the 4-dimensional smooth Poincaré conjecture.[13] He has supervised 14 Ph.D students as of 2019. He has more than 100 papers and three books published, and several books edited.
Controversy
In 2015, a course that Akbulut was scheduled to teach was cancelled due to alleged lack of enrollment and he was reassigned a different course. He still taught the initially assigned course, with 5 students (which was the minimum enrollment requirement at the time) and 2 visiting scholars regularly attending the class. However, Akbulut was penalized for teaching the initially assigned course, with a penalty of 10% salary reduction. Additionally, he started emailing his colleagues and graduate students that claimed that several professors were behaving fraudulently, which subjected him to dismissal charges. He has disputed the claims made against him. The dismissal hearings for Akbulut are scheduled starting August 16, 2019 with the possibility of termination.[14][15]
Notes
- ^ Akbulut, Selman (2016). 4-manifolds. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198784869. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ S. Akbulut and H.C. King, Topology of real algebraic sets, MSRI Publications, 25. Springer-Verlag, New York (1992) ISBN 0-387-97744-9
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ S. Akbulut, A solution to a conjecture of Zeeman, Topology, vol.30, no.3, (1991), 513-515.
- ^ S. Akbulut, Scharlemann's manifold is standard, Ann of Math., 149 (1999) 497-510.
- ^ S. Akbulut, Cappell-Shaneson homotopy spheres are standard Ann. of Math., 171 (2010) 2171-2175.
- ^ S. Akbulut, Cappell-Shaneson's 4-dimensional s-cobordism, Geometry-Topology, vol.6, (2002), 425-494.
- ^ M. Freedman, R. Gompf, S. Morrison, K. Walker, Man and machine thinking about the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. Quantum Topol. 1 (2010), no. 2, 171–208
- ^ S. Akbulut, A Fake compact contractible 4-manifold, Journal of Differential Geometry 33, (1991), 335-356
- ^ S. Akbulut, An exotic 4-manifold, Journ. of Diff. Geom. 33, (1991), 357-361
- ^ B. Ozbagci and A.I. Stipsicz. Surgery on contact 3-manifolds and Stein surfaces (p. 14), Springer ISBN 3-540-22944-2
- ^ A. Scorpan, The wild world of 4-manifolds (p.90), AMS Pub. ISBN 0-8218-3749-4
- ^ Morrison, Scott. "Poincaré conjecture". Secret Blogging Seminar. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Duxbury, Phillip. "Dismissal for Cause Proceedings" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Reifenberg, John. "Administrative Order" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
