Asuman Güven Aksoy is a Turkish-American mathematician whose research concerns topics in

functional analysis Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (for example, Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics ...

metric geometry In mathematics, a metric space is a Set (mathematics), set together with a notion of ''distance'' between its Element (mathematics), elements, usually called point (geometry), points. The distance is measured by a function (mathematics), functi ...

, and

operator theory In mathematics, operator theory is the study of linear operators on function spaces, beginning with differential operators and integral operators. The operators may be presented abstractly by their characteristics, such as bounded linear operato ...

including

Banach space In mathematics, more specifically in functional analysis, a Banach space (, ) is a complete normed vector space. Thus, a Banach space is a vector space with a metric that allows the computation of vector length and distance between vectors and ...

s, measures of non-compactness,

fixed points Fixed may refer to: * ''Fixed'' (EP), EP by Nine Inch Nails * ''Fixed'' (film), an upcoming animated film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky * Fixed (typeface), a collection of monospace bitmap fonts that is distributed with the X Window System * Fi ...

, Birnbaum–Orlicz spaces,

real tree In mathematics, real trees (also called \mathbb R-trees) are a class of metric spaces generalising simplicial Tree (graph theory), trees. They arise naturally in many mathematical contexts, in particular geometric group theory and probability theory ...

injective metric space In metric geometry, an injective metric space, or equivalently a hyperconvex metric space, is a metric space with certain properties generalizing those of the real line and of L∞ distances in higher- dimensional vector spaces. These properties c ...

s, and

tight span In metric geometry, the metric envelope or tight span of a metric space ''M'' is an injective metric space into which ''M'' can be embedded. In some sense it consists of all points "between" the points of ''M'', analogous to the convex hull of a po ...

s. She works at

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

, where she is Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow.

Education

Aksoy studied mathematics and physics at

Ankara University Ankara University () is a public university, public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the History of the Republic of Turkey, formation of the Turkish republ ...

, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1976. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

in 1978, with a thesis ''Subspaces of Nuclear Fréchet Spaces'' supervised by Tosun Terzioğlu. She moved to the United States in 1978 for additional graduate study at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

, and eventually became a US citizen. She completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1984. Her dissertation, ''Approximation Schemes, Related

s

-Numbers, and Applications'', was supervised by Melapalayam S. Ramanujan.

Career

After completing her doctorate, Aksoy joined the faculty of

Oakland University Oakland University (OU or Oakland) is a public university, public research university in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson and husband ...

in 1984, and was tenured there in 1987. She moved to Claremont McKenna in 1990, and chaired the mathematics department there from 1997 to 2000 and again from 2007 to 2009. She was given the Crown Professorship and Roberts Fellowship in 2009.

Books

With Mohamed Amine Khamsi, Aksoy is the author of two books: * ''Nonstandard Methods in Fixed Point Theory'' (Universitext, Springer, 1990) * ''A Problem Book in Real Analysis'' (Springer, 2009)

Recognition

In 2006 the Southern California–Nevada Section of the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary edu ...

gave Aksoy their annual Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aksoy, Asuman Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American people of Turkish descent Turkish mathematicians Functional analysts Ankara University alumni Middle East Technical University alumni Oakland University faculty Claremont McKenna College faculty University of Michigan alumni 21st-century American women musicians 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians