Author: akuncu

  • 15 minute academics advice /w Silviu Radu

    I finally caught a dear friend at RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) and asked for some of his wisdom. He answered in his usual unique and sometimes convoluted way. I hope you’ll enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

  • 15 minute academics advice /w James Sellers

    I get to catch up with a long-time friend in Linz, of all places. He was always someone to look up to since my graduate student years. I am happy to finally get to have a deep chat about some aspects of academic life with him. Unfortunately, my camera died, and we didn’t get to…

  • 15 minute academics advice /w Ilias Kotsireas

    I was lucky to catch up with Ilias. This meeting being in Crete during the Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA) was an added bonus of course. It has been a long time since we last saw each other in person. We talked about various things. The main one being the ACA 2025 and the 30…

  • Future Algorithms 2025 Talk on Computer Algebra Applications to Optimization

    I recently had the privilege of working on an interdisciplinary project. My coauthor, Michael, and I struggled to understand each other at first, but it became a fun project once the translations and goals were all set. Here is the published paper at JSC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747717125000380, and here is my take on our collaboration at the…

  • 15 minute academics advice /w Doron Zeilberger

    Join me in this conversation with Doron Zeilberger. He is among the book’s authors literally called A=B, and if you ever want to prove some A=B on a computer you’ll quickly find his name. I always enjoyed our conversations since I first met him in 2016 at JMM, and I am so happy to finally…

  • Lange Nacht Der Forschung (Long Night of Research)

    “Lange Nacht der Forschung” (Long Night of Research) is an Austria-wide inspiring bi-annual event that showcases the world of science and innovation to the public. Each institute and university holds events for one night after work hours all across Austria to meet the public and talk about their research. What questions are they asking? How…

  • 4th Analysis Days of Matematik Türkiye Plenary

    It is always lovely to interact with the math enthusiasts. Türkiye Mathematik is one of the most established and active groups these days. They helped the SCALE 22 conference and provided the conference volunteers, to run the organızatıon smoothly. I am so glad they asked me to give a plenary talk and I was honored…

  • My First Popular Mathematics Article

    Here is the link to the article! I am overjoyed to write a small article in the Turkish popular mathematics journal Matematik Dünyası (Eng. World of Mathematics). Of course the article is about integer partitions. It is actually called Parçalanış Teorisine Davet (Eng. An invitation to Theory of Partitions). I tried to give some overview…

  • Workshop on Cylindric Partitions

    November 21 – 25, 2022 This is a research in teams event that will take place at Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW) and Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) of Johannes Kepler University (JKU). Some talks are announced below to introduce the problems and…

  • 15 minute academics advice /w Bruno Buchberger

    A legendary mathematician, amazing visionary, fun loving easy to chat overall nice person. Bruno changes the game in everything he does. For example, we couldn’t stop at the 15 minute mark. It was an enjoyable conversation. I am glad we found the time.