{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:49:23","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><strong>Dr. Yildirim Aktas<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Associate Professor Department of Physics<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2012\/10\/aktas2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Areas of Specialization<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Theoretical\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uncc.edu\/PhysStaff\/Aktas\/personal\/research.html\">Plasma Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sbfel3.ucsb.edu\/www\/vl_fel.html\">Free Electron Lasers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uncc.edu\/PhysStaff\/Aktas\/personal\/education.html\">Physics Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uncc.edu\/\">Physics Dept.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncc.edu\/\">UNC Charlotte<\/a>\u00a0(1998-present)<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.uncc.edu\/\">Physics Dept.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncc.edu\/\">UNC Charlotte<\/a>\u00a0(1991-1998)<\/li>\n<li>Lecturer, Physics Dept.,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncc.edu\/\">UNC<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/\">Charlotte<\/a>\u00a0(1989-1991)<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Assistant Professor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksu.edu\/\">Kansas State University<\/a>\u00a0(1987-1989)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., Physics,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouri.edu\/\">University of Missouri<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouri.edu\/mu\/columbia.html\">Columbia<\/a>\u00a0(1987)<\/li>\n<li>B.S. with Honors,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metu.edu.tr\/\">Middle East Technical University<\/a>, Ankara-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turknet.com\/turkey\/index.html\">Turkey<\/a>\u00a0(1980)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p>. \u201cSelf-Fields Effects on Gain in a Free-electron Laser with Helical Wiggler and Ion-Channel Guiding\u201d J. E. Willett, Y. Aktas to Journal of Plasma Physics (2006).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBackaction of a detector on the field it measures\u201d, W. Guo and Y.\u00a0 Aktas, Opt.\u00a0 Commun.,\u00a0 282, 14 (2009).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime evolution of an excited atom\u2019s position-momentum uncertainty\u201d,\u00a0W. Guo, Y. Aktas. Optics Com, Vol. 283, Issue 21, Nov. 1, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReexamination of the Doppler effect through Maxwell\u2019s equations\u201d Guo, Wei; Aktas, Yildirim, JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 8, pp.1568-1570 (2012).<\/p>\n<h3>Honors, Awards, and Accomplishments<\/h3>\n<p>H. E. Hammond Award for excellence in teaching and research, University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>O. M. Stewart Scholarship for research UMC, Department of Physics, 1982-1986.<br \/>\nChancellor&#8217;s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UMC, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Graduate Achievement Award in Physics, UMC, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Scholarship for Graduate Study, Scientific and Technical Research Councel of Turkey, 1980-1984.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Advance Study Institute Summer Scholarship at France, 1979.<\/p>\n<h3>Professional Memberships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/\">American Physical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aapt.org\/\">American Association of Physics Teachers.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Councel on Undergraduate Research.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/education\/sps\/sigpisig.htm\">Sigma Pi Sigma.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaxi.org\/\">Sigma Xi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/\">Amarican Institute of Physics.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/\">The Society of Turkish Architects, Engineers and Scientists in America<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yildirim Aktas Associate Professor Department of Physics Areas of Specialization Theoretical\u00a0Plasma Physics Free Electron Lasers Physics Education Professional Experience Associate Professor,\u00a0Physics Dept.,\u00a0UNC Charlotte\u00a0(1998-present) Assistant Professor,\u00a0Physics Dept.,\u00a0UNC Charlotte\u00a0(1991-1998) Lecturer, Physics Dept.,\u00a0UNCCharlotte\u00a0(1989-1991) Visiting Assistant Professor,\u00a0Kansas State University\u00a0(1987-1989) Education Ph.D., Physics,\u00a0University of Missouri&#8211;Columbia\u00a0(1987) B.S. with Honors,Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey\u00a0(1980) Publications . \u201cSelf-Fields Effects on Gain in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":527,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2RnDV-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/yildirim-aktas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}