Taner completed his PhD at the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University in May 2007. His thesis was on neutron stars. (The thesis is not publicly available at this moment, however, you can still find his research interests here.) He was a postdoc at Cornell University for six months. Ahora él es un investigador postdoctoral en el Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.

A bit about his family: His mother is a chemical engineer who worked for Nestlé (lots of chocolate and coffee - stimulants and antioxidants are good for you!). His father is a retired architect who spends a good deal of time on computer games and painting; and a good deal of money on books and movies. His sister is a painter and jewelry designer. Her husband is a painter, too. I draw (see below). Taner es un tío.

Taner speaks fluent Turkish, English, and Bulgarian, some Russian, y un poco Español. Likes drawing (some examples); watching movies (thou must see these); sleeping; listening to music (favorites); reading; writing; playing football (the non-US football, i.e. the one and real) and tennis; running; playing chess, backgammon, other board games, and especially Age of Empires (click to download the trial version), Starcraft, Warcraft, Red Alert, and Civilization; making jokes; and -of course- dealing with math and physics. Has tried a bit of bowling, ice skating and skiing - starting to get better! Did a fair amount of ballroom dance. Has theoretical research of minor importance in math. (Has re-discovered several relations that have been known for at least two to twenty centuries! Including the binomial triangle.. Some work on trigonometry and prime numbers..)
 

¹ Cow and Chicken are courtesy of Cartoon Network..
² It's a long story..

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Links...
Curious About Astronomy? A popular site by a bunch of our Cornell Astronomy folks. Go ahead and ask them questions.
The Integrator A mutated web clone of Mathematica. If you need to do some complicated integrals, or just for fun..
Interactive Map of the World From a nice reference site (HRW Educational Resources) with links to dictionaries, maps, etc.
Numerical Recipes This great book is available online! Also available through the same site is Abramowitz & Stegun.
Physical Reference Data A perfect place for atomic spectra, physical constants and other references (from NIST).
Theseus and the Minotaur Mazes A little something to blow your mind when you're sure you won't be needing it for the rest of your life..
Wolfram Research An online Mathematikhandbuch from the developers of Mathematica. (Also useful to look at Wikipedia.)
Software..
G95 Fortran compiler.
Gnuplot Simple plotting utility. Can create eps files and is similar to SuperMongo, but is free! And does 3d plots as well..
Inkscape Create elaborate figures. It's completely free and is better than Xfig!
MiKTeX LaTeX for Windows.
OpenOffice A free alternative to Microsoft Office! It totally sucks, just like everything else made by Sun Microsystems, but well, it is free..
WinEdt LaTeX editor for Windows. Free trial.
WinFIG Xfig for Windows. Shareware.
Books, books, books.. And more books..
Amazon.com (No need to comment.)
Kniga.com Books in Russian.
Project Gutenberg On-line library! Might find some old books there. (Example? Jack London.. Also check out the Google Book Search.)
For the soul..
BMG Music Service Sign up and buy CD's at very agreeable prices. (Alternative to Amazon.com)
Pandora Custom Internet Radio. Think outside the box..
Pastafarianism Do you have the Flying Spaghetti Monster in you?
Tori Amos She's your cocaine.
For the eye...
The Artist Index Lots of paintings, engravings, etc of many famous European artists.
H. R. Giger The designer of the Aliens - the movie!
Banksy, the Guerilla Artist Viva la resistance!!
Friends.. (May or may not interest you..)
Murtaza Bulut
Erdem Öz
Hasan Yüksel