Short Curriculum Vitae: CAHIT ERKAL

      I.        PERSONAL INFORMATION

Cahit Erkal                                             

Associate Professor of Physics, Tenured

222E Joseph E. Johnson Engineering Physical Science Building

Geology, Geography and Physics Department, Martin, TN 38238

Office Phone: (731) 881-7432, Fax: (731) 881-7434, Home Phone: (731) 587-2760

cerkal@utm.edu, home page:  http://www.utm.edu/~cerkal/cahit.html

 

     II.       EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

 

                Ph.D.       University of Wisconsin, Madison (1986), High Energy Physics (Phenomenology)

                B.S.         Hacettepe University, Ankara-Turkey  (Fall 1980), Engineering Physics

 

    III.       EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

                1/2000 - Present                      Assistant/Associate Professor of Physics, Geology, Geography and Physics Department, University of Tennessee Martin , tenure&promotion 2003

                7/91 - 12/99                             Faculty at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics

Fall/98 - 2000                          Assistant to the associate editor for the NCSSSMST (National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science & Technology)

                8/1999 - 12/1999                     Adjunct Faculty, University of Central Oklahoma

                3/92 - 12/99                             Adjunct Faculty, University of Oklahoma, Physics Department

8/87 - 6/91                               Assistant Professor (temporary position), Central Michigan Univ., Mt. Pleasant, MI

9/86 - 8/87                               Visiting Professor/Scientist, University of Cincinnati

                9/86 - 8/87                               Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin

                79 - 80                                     Teaching Assistant, Hacettepe University, Ankara-Turkey

    1978                                        System Analyst(Neutron Spectrum Research), ECN (Netherlands Energy Center)- 

Netherlands

 

 

IV.           SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

 

     .          RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

                C.Erkal

The Life of a Lady Bug on a Hot Plate: An Example of a Two-Dimensional Curved Space

A preprint, To be submitted to European Journal of Physics, preprint, December 2004

 

1)         Simpson, R. M. and C. Erkal, “The Use of Teleconnections to Predict Temperatures in a   

            Climate Transition Zone”, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 27, pp. 131-140,2004.

               

   2)          Richard T. Baillie, A. Cecen, C. Erkal, Y.W. Han

                Measuring non-linearity, long memory and self-similarity in high-frequency European exchange rates

 “Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money”, Vol. 14, Issue 5 (2004), pp. 401-418

 

    3)          C. Erkal

              The Simple Pendulum: A Relativistic Revisit             

                European Journal of Physics, 21(2000) 377-384

 

 

   4)          A. Cecen and C. Erkal

Distinguishing Between Stochastic and Deterministic Behavior in High Frequency Foreign Exchange Rate Returns: Can Nonlinear Dynamics Help Forecasting?

International Journal of Forecasting, Vol.12, Issue 4. (1996) page 465

 

   5)          A. Cecen and C. Erkal

                Foreign Exchange Rate Returns: Stochasticity and Deterministic Behavior

Journal of Economic Letters. 51 (1996) 323-329