Research Groups and Their Members

Research groups at BIMS are listed below. For additional information about the members, please refer to their personal pages.

Algebra Research Group

This group focuses on advanced topics in algebra, exploring both foundational and cutting-edge areas of the field. Members of the group engage in research related to representations of finite groups, category theory, graph theory and their applications.

  • Olcay Coşkun (Head, Senior Researcher)
    Olcay Coşkun leads the group and specializes in various branches of algebra. His research interests include representation theory of finite groups, Mackey functors, (fibered) biset functors, category algebras, Green biset functors, block theory, fusion systems, homological algebra

  • Türker Bıyıkoğlu (Senior Researcher)
    Türker Bıyıkoğlu contributes to graph theory and its applications.


Number Theory Research Group

This group conducts research in the area of number theory. 

  • Ertan Elma (Junior Researcher)
    Ertan Elma is a junior researcher whose work focuses on Analytic and Elementary Number Theory, L-functions, Sieve Methods and Their Applications, Exponential Sums and the Circle Method, Probabilistic Results in Number Theory, Number Theory in Function Fields.