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CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Nazife Koca (Ozdes) College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University

December 2015

C1. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name : Nazife Koca (Ozdes)

Postal Address : Department of Physics, College of Science,

Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box:36, Al-Khoud 123

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Telephone numbers : +968 24141445 (Office)

Fax Number : +968 24414228

e-mail : [email protected]

C2. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION

C2.1 Education Degree

Year Institution

Ph.D. 1992 Cukurova University (C.U), Adana, Turkey

(in Experimental High Energy Physics. Under the supervisions

of Prof. Peter Schlein from UCLA/USA and Prof. Gulsen

Onengut from C.U, Adana, Turkey)

Visiting

Ph.D.

Student

1987-

1991

CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Geneva/Switzerland. All Ph.D. experimental studies were done

at Super proton-antiproton ( SpSp )collider (in the UA8

Experiment) at CERN

M.Sc. 1985 Cukurova University, Graduate School of Science, Adana,

Turkey

B.Sc. 1983 Cukurova University, College of Science, Department of

Physics, Adana, Turkey

C2.2 Employment

From

To Institution Position

May 2015 present SQU, Department of Associate Professor

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Physics, Muscat, Oman

Sep. 2008 May 2015 SQU, Department of

Physics, Muscat, Oman

Assistant Professor

March 2007 Aug. 2008 Higher College of

Technology, Muscat, Oman

Assistant Professor

Sep. 2004 Sep. 2008 Higher College of


Head of IT&Math.

Department

Nov. 1998 Sep. 2004 Higher College of


Lecturer

Oct. 1995 Oct. 1998 Cukurova University,

Department of Physics,

Adana, Turkey

Associate

Professor

June 1992 Oct. 1995 Cukurova University,


Adana, Turkey

Assistant

Professor

Sep.1991 June 1992 Cukurova University,


Adana, Turkey

Teaching and

Research Assistant

Dec. 1987 Sep. 1991 Cukurova University,


Adana, Turkey

(On leave for Ph.D.Study)

Research Assistant

Sep. 1984

Dec. 1987 Cukurova University,


Adana, Turkey

Teaching and

Research Assistant

C3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

CETL (Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) faculty fellow

(2015), SQU, Muscat-Oman

. Best teacher award: I received the best teacher award of the Physics

Department in 2013 (Please see the attachment)

C3.2 Scholarships and Fellowships

1. Turkish government fellowship to carry out high energy physics experiments

at CERN in part of Ph.D. studies (1987-1989)

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2. Distinguished graduate student fellowship in physics by the Turan Barut

Foundation of Physics (1987-1989) initiated by the late Prof. Asim Orhan

Barut

3. The World Laboratory (ICSC) Fellowship for PhD studies at CERN (1989-1991)

4. Post-Doctoral Fellowship granted by the Scientific and Technical Research

Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (1.7.1992–30.9.1992) for research visit to

CERN

5. Scholarship by TUBITAK for research visit to CERN (2 months in 1994)

6. Scholarship by TUBITAK for research visit to CERN (1 month in 1995)




C3.3 International Recognition

C3.3.1 Research visits

A research visit was made between 30th

June and 7th

July 2014 to the

Department of Physics, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.

Visits to CERN have been made in the capacity of research collaborations:

1. CERN (European Center for Fundamental Research), Geneva, Switzerland,

July-August 2000

Preparation of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment in Large

Hadron Collider (LHC)

2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, July-August 1999

Preparation of the CMS experiment (Very Forward Calorimeter (VFCAL)

section)


Preparation of the CMS experiment (VFCAL section)







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Preparation of the CMS experiment and analysis of UA8 data

8. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, June-August 1992

Analysis of UA8 data

9. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1987- September1991

Research for Ph.D. studies

C4. TEACHING and

C4.1 Courses taught

Courses taught at SQU, Muscat, Oman

(2008- present)

1. PHYS2101: General Physics I (4 credits)

2. PHYS2102: General Physics II (4 credits)-Coordinator

3.PHYS2107: Physics for Engineering I (4 credits) –Coordinator

4. PHYS3001: Dynamics (3 credits)

5. PHYS5501: Physics Project (3credits)

6. Supervision of the labs and tutorials of General Physics I (PHYS2101),

Physics for Engineering I PHYS2107)–Coordinator

7. Supervision of the labs and tutorials of General Physics II (PHYS2102)

Physics for Engineering II (PHYS2108) -Coordinator

Courses taught at Higher College of Technology, Muscat, Oman

(1998-2008)

1. College Algebra – Coordinator (400 students)

2. Calculus I–Coordinator (300 students)

3. Discrete Structure (60 students)

4. Statistics –Coordinator (180 students)

Courses taught at Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

(1984-1987; 1992-1998)

1. General Physics I

2. General Physics II

3. Calculus I

4. Calculus II

5. Differential Equations

6. Complex Analysis

7. Linear Algebra

8. Quantum Physics

9. Nuclear Physics

10. Supervision of the laboratory courses of introductory physics

11. Special topics in particle physics (M.Sc. course)

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C4.2 Curricula development and innovation

Teaching creativity, and use of modern methodologies/techniques

I designed and used the e-learning facilities (Moodle) for the courses Physics

for Engineering I (PHYS2107), General Physics II (PHYS2102) and Dynamics

(PHYS3001).

Revising course contents 1. I have revised/updated the Phys2107 course syllabus to improve the students’

skills.

2. I have revised/updated Phys2102/phys2108 lab manuals.

3. I have revised/updated the Phys3001course syllabus.

C4.3 Undergraduate project supervision and academic advising

Undergraduate project supervised including supervision and co-supervision

ID Name of the

student

Title of the

Project

Semester

Supervision

co-

supervision

1 88870/09 Sharifa

Saleh Al

Rashdi

Construction of

the Octahedral

group by

Quaternions and

Octahedral

Symmetry

Spring

2015

Supervision

2 90941/10 Miytha

Nasser Saif

Al Zeidi

Tetrahedral

group by

quaternions and

polyhedra with

tetrahedral

symmetry

Spring

2015

Co-

supervision

3 81994/08 Mahfoudha

Said Al

Hatmi

Computer

Modeling of the

motion of

projectiles

subject to the

forces of gravity

and air resistance

Spring

2014

Supervision

4 86176 Athar

Hashim Said

Al-Askhari

Construction of

the FCC and

BCC lattices

from Coxeter-

Weyl group A3

and Quaternions

Fall 2013 Co-

supervision

5 84032 Mohammed

Al Barwani

Polyhedra under

tetrahedral

symmetry and

Quaternions

Spring

2012

Co-

supervision

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6 70312/ 06 Manal Al-

Maadi

Neutrino Physics Spring

2011

Supervision

7 70407/07 Asma Al-

Shabnoti

Neutrino

Oscillations

Fall 2011

Supervision

8 70139/07 Iman Al

Ma'mari

Neutrino

Oscillations

Fall 2011 Supervision

Student advising

Physics 2009 cohort, 28 students

C5. SERVICE

C5.1 University Administration and Committees

At SQU

2015-present Member of CETL (Center for Excellence in Teaching and

Learning)

2014-present Member of the Departmental Advisory Board

2013-present Member of the College Annual Report Committee

2013-present Member of Departmental Research Committee (Annual

Research Report, Library, Physics Colloquia)

2010- present Member of the Departmental Newsletter and Annual Report

Committee

2010- 2014 Member of Social Activities Committee

2012- 2014 Member of the Space Allocation Committee (PSAC)

2009-2013 Departmental Board Secretary

2009-2010 Member of the Departmental Postgraduate Study Committee

2008-2009 Member of Procurement Committee

At Higher College of Technology (HCT), Oman

Head of IT & Mathematics Department, Muscat, Oman, 2004-2008

IT open day, 31st March 2008. Head of organizing committee

The EPT (Enhancement Practical Training) workshop- 6 March 2008

Head of organizing committee

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Workshop on IT Essentials1-2 March 2008


OJT (On the Job Training) Workshop, Nov., 2007


OJT (On the Job Training) Workshop, Nov., 2006


Head of IT specialization Committees, 2006-2007

C5.2 Professional services

1. A poster entitled as “Quasicrystallography from Higher Dimensional

Lattices”, by Nazife Koca, Mehmet Koca was presented in University Day,

3-5 May, 2015. Grand Hall, SQU Cultural Center Building.

2. The 11th annual Arab astronomical forum and Exhibition, SQU, Muscat,

Oman, 5-8 Feb.2012. Member of local organizing committee

3. 1st Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics held in Adana, Turkey

1984, Member of local organizing committee

4. 2nd Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics held in Adana, Turkey

1987. Member of local organizing committee

C5.3 Service to the public

To increase public awareness on the discoveries in High Energy Physics I

have published 3 popular articles in the SQU journal Horizon and one

article in the College of Science News Bulletin.

I took part in the committee which organized the meetings of the CERN

delegation with the Omani authorities in 2012.

C6. SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENTS

Citation indices

1. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KCS6YKYAAAAJ&hl=en

Citation indices

All Since 2010

Citations 1873 1147 h-index 14 11 i10-index 16 11

2. http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6602374067

C6.1.1 Refereed Journal Papers

After joining SQU

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KCS6YKYAAAAJ&hl=en

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KCS6YKYAAAAJ&hl=en

http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6602374067

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1. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca* and Ramazan Koc,

“Group Theoretical Analysis of Quasicrystallography from Projections of Higher

Dimensional Lattices Bn”.

Acta Crystallographica Section A71 (2015), 175-185.

doi: 10.1107/S2053273314025492.

* Corresponding author

2. Nazife Özdeş Koca*, Mehmet Koca, and Muna Al-Sawafi

FCC, BCC and SC Lattices Derived from the Coxeter-Weyl groups and

quaternions.

SQU Journal for Science, 19(1) 95-104 (2014)

*First and Corresponding author

3. Nazife O. Koca*, Mehmet Koca, and Ramazan Koc

12-fold Symmetric Quasicrystallography from the lattices F4, B6, and E6

Acta Crystallographica Section A70 (2014) 605-615.

doi: 10.1107/S2053273314015812. [IF: 2.069]


4. Nazife Koca Regular and semi-regular polyhedra obtained from Coxeter groups and

quaternions

Symmetry: Culture and Science, Vol.25, No.3, 211-232 (2014)

5. Nazife O. Koca*, Mehmet Koca, and Muna Al-Sawafi

Quasicrystals from higher dimensional lattices



6. Mehmet Koca, Nazife O. Koca*, Ramazan Koç

Affine A4, Quaternions, and Decagonal Quasicrystals

Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys (IJGMMP)Vol.11, No. 4 (2014) 1450031[23

pages]

DOI: 10.1142/S0219887814500315[IF: 1.265, 5 years]

*Corresponding author

7. Mehmet Koca, Mudhahir Al-Ajmi, and Nazife Ozdes Koca

Quaternionic Construction of the W(F4) Polytopes with Their Dual Polytopes and

Branching under the Subgroups W(B4) and W(B3)*W(A1)

IJGMMP Vol. 10, No. 5 (2013)135001 [24 pages]

DOI: 10.1142/S021988781350010 [IF: 1.265, 5 years]

8. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, and Muataz Al-Barwani

Snub 24-Cell Derived from the Coxeter-Weyl Group W (D4)

IJGMMP, Vol.9, No. 8 (2012) 1250068 [14 pages]

DOI: 10.1142/S0219887812500685

[IF: 1.265, 5 years]

9. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca*, and Mudhahir Al-Ajmi

http://arxiv.org/find/math-ph/1/au:+Koca_M/0/1/0/all/0/1

http://arxiv.org/find/math-ph/1/au:+Al_Ajmi_M/0/1/0/all/0/1

http://arxiv.org/find/math-ph/1/au:+Koca_N/0/1/0/all/0/1



http://arxiv.org/find/math-ph/1/au:+Al_Barwani_M/0/1/0/all/0/1




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4D-Polytopes and Their Dual Polytopes of the Coxeter Group W(A4) Represented

by Quaternions

IJGMMP, Vol. 9, No.4 (2012)1250035

DOI: 10.1142/S0219887812500351

[IF: 1.265, 5 years]


10. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca*, and Mudhahir Al-Ajmi

Branching of the W (H4) polytopes and their dual polytopes under the Coxeter

groups W (A4) and W(H3) represented by quaternions Turk. J. Phys. 36 (2012) 309- 333. TUBITAK


11. M. Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca*, and Ramazan Koç

Quasi Regular Polyhedra and Their Duals with Coxeter Symmetries Represented

by Quaternions-1

The African Review of Physics (2011) 6:0006 41-52


12. M Koca, M Al-Ajmi, and N O Koca

Quaternionic representation of snub 24-cell and its dual polytope derived from E8

root system

Linear Algebra Appl. 434 (2011) 977

[IF: 1.086, 5 years]

13. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca*, and Muna Al-Shu'eili

Chiral Polyhedra Derived from Coxeter Diagrams and Quaternions

SQU Journal for Science, 16 (2011) 63-82 *Corresponding author

14. M. Koca, N.O Koca, and R. Koç

Catalan Solids Derived From 3D-Root Systems

J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010) 043501

[IF: 1.201, 5 years]

15. M. Koca, N.O Koca, and M. Al-Ajmi

Grand Antiprism and Quaternions

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 495201

[IF: 1.687 in 2013]

Before joining SQU

16. By CMS Collaboration [S.Chatrchyan et al.(…, N.Ozdes-Koca,… ]

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

JINST (Journal of Instrumentation) 3(2008)S08004 [IF: 1.526 in 2013]

17. By CMS HCAL Collaboration [S. Abdullin et al.(S. Abdullin,…, N. Ozdes-

Koca,…)]




http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_udi=B6V0R-51FPFRD-1&_mathId=mml1&_user=912155&_cdi=5653&_pii=S0024379510005173&_rdoc=1&_issn=00243795&_acct=C000047883&_version=1&_userid=912155&md5=05b51d4bf705b166bf3de67b33640b28

http://www-spires.fnal.gov/spires/find/hep/wwwauthors?key=7955537

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Design, performance, and calibration of CMS Hadron-barrel calorimeter wedges

Eur.Phys.J.C55 (2008)159-171 [IF: 5.436in 2013]

18. By CMS HCAL Collaboration [S. Abdullin et al.(S. Abdullin,…, N. Ozdes-

Koca,…)]

Design, performance and calibration of the CMS forward calorimeter wedges

Eur.Phys.J.C53 (2008)139-166

[IF: 5.436 in 2013]

19. M. Koca, R. Koç, and Nazife O. Koca

The Chevalley Group G2(2) of order 12,096 and the Octonionic Root System of

E7

Linear Algebra. Appl. 422 (2007) 808-823

[IF: 1.086, 5 years]

20. A.S. Ayan et al.(N. Akchurin,…, N. Koca, …)

Energy Resolution and the linearity of the CMS forward Quartz Fiber Calorimeter

Pre-Production prototype (PPP-I) J.Phys.G30 (2004) N33-N44.

[IF: 2.838in 2013]

21. Dumanoglu et al (,…, N. Koca,…)

Radiation-hardness studies of high oh-content quartz fibers irradiated with 500-

MeV electrons

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A490 (2002) 444-455 [IF: 1.268, 5 years]

22. N. Akchurin , A.S. Ayan , …, N. Ozdes-Koca ,…

Effects of radiation and their consequences for the performance of the forward

calorimeters in the CMS experiment

Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms (2002)

187(1) pp. 66-78 [IF: 1.325, 5 years]

23. UA8 Collaboration: A. Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis, N.

Ozdes,P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

A Study of Inclusive Double Pomeron Exchange in ppXpp at s =630 GeV

Eur.Phys.J.C25 (2002) 361-377

[IF: 5.436 in 2013]

24. UA8 Collaboration: A. Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis,

N.Ozdes, P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

Cross-Section Measurements of Hard Diffraction at the SPS Collider

Phys.Let.B421 (1998) 395-404

[IF: 4.156, 5 years]

25. UA8 Collaboration: A. Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis,


http://www-spires.fnal.gov/spires/find/hep/wwwauthors?key=7824530

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/wwwauthors?key=6101453

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/wwwhepau/wwwscan?rawcmd=fin+Akchurin,+N.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/wwwhepau/wwwscan?rawcmd=fin+Koca,+N.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/wwwhepau/wwwscan?rawcmd=fin+Dumanoglu,+I.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/wwwhepau/wwwscan?rawcmd=fin+Koca,+N.

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Measurements of Single Diffraction at s =630 GeV: Evidence for a nonlinear

)(t of the pomeron

Nucl.Phys. B 514(1998) 3-44

[IF: 3.266, 5 years]

26. UA8 Collobaration: A.Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis,


Measurements of Inclusive 0 productions with large xf at the SPS collider

Nucl.Phys.B519 (1998) 3-18

[IF: 3.266, 5 years]

27. N. Akchurin,…,N. Ozdes-Koca, …

Test Beam Results of CMS Quartz Fibre Calorimeter Prototype and simulation of

Response to High-Energy Hadron Jets

Nucl. Instrum.Meth. A409 (1998) 593-597

[IF: 1.268, 5 years]

28. N. Akchurin,…,N. Ozdes-Koca, …

On the Differences Between High-Energy Proton and Pion Showers and their

Signals in a Non-Compensation Calorimeter

Nucl. Instrum.Meth.A408 (1998)380-396

[IF: 1.268, 5 years]

29. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca and Ramazan Koc

Quaternionic Roots of E8, Related Coxeter Graphs and Quasi Crystals

Turkish Journal of Physics 22 (1998) 421

30. CMS VFCAL Collaboration: (N. Akchurin, …,N. Ozdes-Koca, …)

Test Beam of A Quartz Fiber Calorimeter Prototype with a Passive Front Section

Nucl. Instrum.Meth. A400 (1997) Pages 267-278

[IF: 1.268, 5 years]

31. CMS VFCAL Collaboration: (N. Akchurin, …,N. Ozdes-Koca, …)Beam Test

Results From a Fine-Sampling Quartz Fiber Calorimeter for Electron, Photon and

Hadron Detection

Nucl. Instrum.Meth.A399 (1997) 202-226

[IF: 1.268, 5 years]


Ozdes, P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

The Small Angle Proton and Lambda Spectrometer of Experiment UA8 at the SppS

Collider

Nucl.Inst.&Meth. A327 (1993) 412-42

[IF: 1.268, 5 years]


Ozdes, P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

Evidence for a super-hard Pomeron structure

Phys.Lett.B 297 (1992)417-424

[IF: 4.156, 5 years]


http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/wwwhepau/wwwscan?rawcmd=fin+Ozdes-Koca,+N.






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34. LAA collaboration [A. Zichichi et al. (D.Acosta,…,N. Ozdes,…)]

Advances in Technology for High-energy Subnuclear Physics:Contribution of the

LAA Project

Riv. Nuovo Cim.13N10-11(1990) 1-228

[IF: 3.364in 2013/2014]

35. M.Koca and Nazife Ozdes

Division Algebras with Integral Elements

J.Phys.A. Math.Gen.22 (1989)1469-1493

[IF: 1.687 in 2013]

36. Unification Problem and the Grand Unified Theories

M.Koca and N.Ozdes

Turkish Journal of Physics 13 (1989) 104-161 (in Turkish)

C6.1.2 Refereed conference papers

After joining SQU

1. M Koca , N O Koca , A Al-Mukhaini and A Al-Qanabi, Quasicrystallography from Bn lattices,

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 563 (2014) 012016, doi:10.1088/1742-

6596/563/1/012016

2. N O Koca, M Koca and S Al-Shidhani, h-fold Symmetric quasicrystallography from affine Coxeter groups,

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 563 (2014) 012017, doi:10.1088/1742-

6596/563/1/012017.

3. M Koca and N.O. Koca

Coxeter groups, quaternions, symmetries of polyhedra and 4D polytopes

Proceedings of the 13th Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics2010, Antalya,

Turkey) eds: Ugur Camci, Ibrahim Semiz

2013,Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Publishing. Co., c20, Pages 40-60

(doi: 10.1142/9789814417532_0003)

ISBN: 978-981-4417-54-9 (e-book)

4. M Koca and N O Koca

Quasi regular polygons and their duals with Coxeter symmetries Dn represented

by complex numbers

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 284 (2011) 012039

Before joining SQU

5.Dumanoglu et al. (I. Dumanoglu, …, N. Koca,…)

Radiation Hardness studies of high oh-quartz fibers for a hadronic forward

calorimeter of the compact muon solenoid experiment at the large hadron collider

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Calorimetry in High

Energy Physics (CALOR 2002), Pasadena, California, USA, 25-29 Mar. 2002. Pub.date:Jan 2003, World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 981-238-157-0, 521-528

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/284/1/012039


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6.UA8 Collaboration: A. Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis, N.Ozdes,

P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

Jets in Single Diffraction ad Pomeron Structure

International Conference of Elastic and Diffractive Scattering,Elba, Italy,

22-26 May 1991, Nucl. Physics B. (Proc. Supp.) 25(1992)26-29

7.UA8 Collaboration: A. Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis,

N. Ozdes, P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

Results on Hard Diffraction Scattering and Other Things

Joint International Lepton-Photon Symposium&Europhysics Conference

onHigh Energy Physics, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 July-1 August1991

Conf.Proc.C910725V1 (1991) 741-743

8.UA8 collaboration: A. Brandt, S.Erhan, A.Kuzucu, D.Lynn, M.Medinnis,

N.Ozdes,P.E.Schlein, M.Zeyrek, J.G.Zweizig, J.B.Cheze, J.Zsembery

UA8: Semi-Inclusive Measurements of Jets in Final States with Leading Protons

of Lambdas

Proceedings of the 8th

Topical Workshop on Proton-Antiproton Collider

Physics, (Castiglione della Pescaia, 1989),Ed.G.Bellettioni&A.Scribono,

World Scientific (1990), Page 192-203.(see High Energy Physics Index (1991),

No:9440)

C6.1.3 Submitted articles and accepted conference papers

1. Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mehmet Koca, Aida Al-Mukhaini and

Amal Al-Qanobi

Quaternionic Representations of the Pyritohedral Group, Related Polyhedra and

Lattices, arXiv:1506.04600v1

2. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca

Radii of the 8E Gosset Circles as the Mass Excitations in the Ising Model

arXiv: 1204.4567v1.

C6.1.4 Books and book chapters

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca,

We translated a well-known book “In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks” by

G. t’Hooft (Nobel Laureate in physics 1999) from English to Turkish which was

published in 2000 by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey

(TUBITAK). TUBITAK Science Books (2000)128.

C6.1.5 Technical & Scientific reports and Popular articles

1. Mehmet Koca and Nazife Ozdes Koca

Neutrinos: Do they travel faster than the light?

HORIZON- SQU magazine, Issue 227, 10 December 2011

2. Nazife Ozdes Koca Neutrinos: the Ghostly Particles

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04600v1




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HORIZON- SQU magazine, Issue 186, 10 March 2010

3. M. Koca and N. Ozdes Koca

A journey to the heart of matter

HORIZON- SQU magazine, Issues 145 -146, 2008

4. Nazife Koca The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

SQU, College of Science News Bulletin, Newsletter, December 2008

5. CMS HCAL Collaboration (G.Baiatian, …, N.Ozdes-Koca,…)

Design, performance, and calibration of cms hadron-barrel calorimeter

wedges, CERN-CMS-NOTE-2006, 138-

6. AS Ayan, N. Akchurin, U. Akgun, …, N. Ozdes-Koca, …

Results from the Beam Test of the CMS Forward Quartz Fiber

Calorimeter Pre-Production Prototype (PPP-I), CERN-CMS Note IN

21, 2002

7. N. Ozdes Koca CP Violation

Fizik Dergisi (Physics magazine, no: 6, Dec.1994 (in Turkish)

8. N. Ozdes and M.Koca

Grand Unified Theories

C.U.Fen ve Muhendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, Cilt 1, Sayi:1, sahife 47-59, 1987

(in Turkish)

C6.2 Conference organizing, attendance and presentation

C6.2.1 Conference attendance and oral presentations

1. The XXII nd International Colloquium on Integrable Systems (ISQS-22)

Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Technical University, 22-29 June 2014 *presented a talk: h-fold Symmetric Quasicrystallography from the Coxeter

groups

2. Symmetry Festival

Delft, The Netherlands, 2-7 August 2013

*presented a talk: Regular and semi-regular polyhedra obtained from

Coxeter groups and quaternions

3. International Conference on Theoretical Physics

Moscow State Open University, Moscow, Russia, 2-6 July, 2012

*presented a talk: Polyhedra and Catalan Solids with Quaternions and

Coxeter Diagrams

4. The 11th annual Arab astronomical forum and Exhibition

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SQU, Muscat, Oman, 5-8 Feb 2012

*participant and member of the local organizing committee

5. Statistics Physics Days

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 30 June-2 July 2011

*presented a talk: Chiral Polyhedra, Coxeter Diagrams and Quaternions

6. The “International Conference on applied analysis and algebra

(ICAAA2011)”

Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey,1-2 July 2011

*presented a talk: Chiral Polyhedra and Coxeter Diagrams

7. GROUP28/ International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in

Physics

North Humbria University, Newcastle, UK,26-30 July 2010

Presented a poster: Quasi regular polygons and their duals with Coxeter

symmetries Dn represented by complex numbers

8. The 10th annual Gulf astronomical forum and Exhibition

Oman Astronomical Society, SQU, Oman, 9-11 April, 2010

Presented a talk: Neutrinos

9. International Conference on Analysis and Applications

SQU, Muscat, Oman, 24-26 Jan.,2010

10. Workshop on Developing Leadership Capability in Teaching and Learning

SQU, Muscat, Oman, 24-25 Jan.,2009

11. Winter School on Mathematical Physics

Izzet Baysal Univ., Bolu, Turkey, 28 Jan -2 Feb, 1997

12. International workshop on electron-gamma Collider

Ankara Univ. Turkey, 27 April –1 May 1997

13. Summer School on Lie Algebras and Grand Unified Theories

Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, 19-25 Aug., 1997

14. Four Seas Conference in High Energy Physics

ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 1995

15. Workshop on Detectors in High Energy Physics

TATA Institute for fundamental research, Bombay, India, Feb., 1993

16. Erice Summer School on Subnuclear Physics

Erice, Palermo, Italy, July 1991

17. NATO Summer School on recent developments in high energy physics

Virgin Island, USA, July 1990

C6.2.2 Organizing conferences at international, regional and national level



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1. The 11th annual Arab astronomical forum and Exhibition, SQU, Muscat,

Oman, 5-8 Feb. 2012. Member of local organizing committee

2. 1st Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics held in Adana, Turkey

1984, Member of local organizing committee

3. 2nd Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics held in Adana, Turkey

1987. Member of local organizing committee

C6.2.3 Seminars

A seminar on Neutrino physics was given on 13th

December 2009 in Physics

Department of SQU.

I gave several lectures in the weekly meetings of the High Energy Physics &

Cosmology group.

C6.3 Scholarly activities and membership of professional bodies 1. Member of the Turkish Physical Society

2. Reviewer: Discrete Mathematics: Elsevier Editorial System 3. Reviewed the paper “The golden section’s pivotal role in modern science”

by Scott A. Olsen (College of Central Florida, U.S.A) that was submitted to

the Symmetry Festival 2013.

C6.4 Research grants and collaboration Internal grants

Name Code Years Amount

(RO)

Research

collaboration

Principal/co-

investigator

1 Quasi

Crystallography

from the

projection of

Higher

Dimensional

Lattices

IG/SCI/

PHYS/

14/06

2014-

2015

3350 Nazife Koca,

Mehmet Koca,

Mudhahir Al

Ajmi, Saleh

Shidhani [SQU,

Oman], Ramazan

Koç [Gaziantep

Univ. Gaziantep,

Turkey]

Principal

investigator

2 Non-regular

Polyhedra with

Coxeter

Symmetries*

IG/SCI/

PHYS/

11/1

2011-

2012

1900

Mehmet Koca,

Nazife Koca,

Mudhahir Al

Ajmi, [Oman],

Ramazan Koç

[Turkey]

Co-investigator

Outcome of research grant (IG/SCI/PHYS/11/1) in terms of publications

1. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, and Mudhahir Al-Ajmi




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Branching of the W(H4) polytopes and their dual polytopes under the Coxeter

groups W(A4) and W(H3) represented by quaternions

Turk J Phys. 36 (2012) 309 - 333. TUBITAK. arXiv:1106.2957v1

2. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, and Mudhahir Al-Ajmi

4D-Polytopes and their Dual Polytopes of the Coxeter Group W(A4)

Represented by Quaternions

IJGMMP 9 (2012) 1250035

3. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, and Muataz Al-Barwani

Snub 24-Cell Derived from the Coxeter-Weyl Group W(D4)

IJGMMP 9 (2012) 8

C6.6 Postgraduate thesis supervision and examination

Sq.

no

St.Name St. ID Title of the M.Sc thesis Supervisor,

/Co-

supervisor,

/thesis

committee

Status

1 Aida Al-

Mukhaini

21300 Quasicrystallography

from 6D lattices

Co-

supervisor

Ongoing-

2014, SQU,

Oman

2 Amal Al-

Qanabi

08439 Quaternionic lattices

and

quasicrystallography

Co-

supervisor

Ongoing-

2014, SQU,

Oman

3 Muna Al-

Sawafi

29530 Projection of 4D lattices

and Quasicrystals

Co-

supervisor

Completed

June 2014,

SQU, Oman

4 Hashima

Ashoor

84289 Projection of the

Polyhedra onto the

Coxeter Plane

Thesis

Committee

Completed

2013, SQU,

Oman

5 Muna Al-

Shu’eili

54946 Regular and Semi-

Regular Polyhedra

Obtained from Coxeter

Groups

and Quaternions

Supervisor Completed

Jan. 2012,

SQU, Oman

6 Dogan

Ozarslan

Detector systems for

elementary particle

physics

Supervisor Completed

In 1996,

Cukurova

University,

Turkey

Outcome of postgraduate supervision

1. Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, and Muna Al-Shu'eili, Chiral Polyhedra Derived from Coxeter Diagrams and Quaternions,

SQU Journal for Science, 16 (2011) 63-82







http://arxiv.org/find/math-ph/1/au:+Al_Barwani_M/0/1/0/all/0/1

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2. Nazife O. Koca, Mehmet Koca, and Muna Al-Sawafi,

Quasicrystals from higher dimensional lattices,


3. Nazife Özdeş Koca, Mehmet Koca, and Muna Al-Sawafi,

FCC, BCC and SC Lattices Derived from the Coxeter-Weyl groups and

quaternions,

SQU Journal for Science, 19 (2014)

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