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{{cite tweet |user=Selman_Akbulut |number=1163868624458674177 |date=20 Aug 2019 |title=Witness 3 of the charging party: "Akbulut offends us by calling us minions and cronies in emails" Defense attorney: "Show us one such email" Answer : "..umm maybe not.." }} |
{{cite tweet |user=Selman_Akbulut |number=1163868624458674177 |date=20 Aug 2019 |title=Witness 3 of the charging party: "Akbulut offends us by calling us minions and cronies in emails" Defense attorney: "Show us one such email" Answer : "..umm maybe not.." }} |
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{{cite tweet |user=Selman_Akbulut |number=1163933527727071232 |date=20 Aug 2019 |title=Defense to Charging party witness: "You wrote a report stating that Akbulut wrote many insulting and threatening emails to people, can you produce one example?" Answer: "umm.. I don't remember, I can't produce any". }} |
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When Akbulut asked former OIE (Office of Institutional Equity) attorney Elizabeth Abdnour at MSU why she was not more vigorous in her Title 6-7 investigations, she replied back by |
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{{cite tweet |user=lizabdnour |number=1159940096528912384 |date=9 Aug 2019 |title=Hi Selman, I’m not sure how much more vigor you are looking for- I was fired after repeatedly attempting to raise concerns and then telling MSU I was going to report to OCR. }} |
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Revision as of 00:36, 21 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
A course that Akbulut was scheduled to teach in 2015 was cancelled with the reason that not enough (the requirement was 5 at the time) students were enrolled, and he was assigned a different course. However, the initially assigned course ran with 5 students and 2 visiting scholars regularly attending the class. All 5 enrolled students have signed an affidavit stating that the initially assigned course ran[14]. Akbulut was penalized for refusing to teach the new course he was assigned, with a penalty of 10% salary reduction. He then allegedly started harassing his colleagues and graduate students with numerous emails that claimed that several professors were behaving fraudulently, eventually subjecting him to dismissal charges. He has disputed the claims made against him.[15] The dismissal hearings for Akbulut are scheduled starting August 16, 2019 with the possibility of termination.[16]
At the end of the second day of hearings, Selman Akbulut tweeted several excerpts from the meetings. Some of these tweets (and replies to them) shows department chair Keith Promislow admitting to his lies. @Selman_Akbulut (19 Aug 2019). "Question: "Did you lie about paying 5K for an Iranian visitors health insurance?" Answer: "Yes I did" #ReclaimMSU" (Tweet) – via Twitter. @Selman_Akbulut (19 Aug 2019). "Question: "Did you lie about UCFA Chair Tom Tomlinson recommending Akbulut to be sent for serious disipline, because of his website?" Answer: "Yes I did". #ReclaimMSU" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
Moreover when witnesses were asked to provide an example of an email that could be considered harassment they were unable to provide one. @Selman_Akbulut (20 Aug 2019). "Witness 3 of the charging party: "Akbulut offends us by calling us minions and cronies in emails" Defense attorney: "Show us one such email" Answer : "..umm maybe not.."" (Tweet) – via Twitter. @Selman_Akbulut (20 Aug 2019). "Defense to Charging party witness: "You wrote a report stating that Akbulut wrote many insulting and threatening emails to people, can you produce one example?" Answer: "umm.. I don't remember, I can't produce any"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
When Akbulut asked former OIE (Office of Institutional Equity) attorney Elizabeth Abdnour at MSU why she was not more vigorous in her Title 6-7 investigations, she replied back by @lizabdnour (9 Aug 2019). "Hi Selman, I'm not sure how much more vigor you are looking for- I was fired after repeatedly attempting to raise concerns and then telling MSU I was going to report to OCR" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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.
- ^ Yildirim, Ustun; Yildiz, Eylem Zeliha; Kasebian, Kaveh; Williams, Luke; Fan, Wei. "Affidavit" (PDF).
- ^ Duxbury, Phillip. "Dismissal for Cause Proceedings" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Reifenberg, John. "Administrative Order" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
