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

 

 

 

            RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

                C.Erkal

Geodesics  on a Hot Plate: An Example of a Two-Dimensional Curved Space

            Cahit Erkal 2006 European Journal of Physics. 27 891-897 

 

         Cahit Erkal, “Nonlinear Characteristics of Daily Temperature Data and Nonlinear Modeling”

 IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 2005 International Conference on Sytems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 10-12, 2005 Proceedings,Waikoloa, Hawaii, pp. 192-197

           

 

        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.

           

            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

 

             C. Erkal

              The Simple Pendulum: A Relativistic Revisit    

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

 

 

            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

 

            A. Cecen and C. Erkal

                Foreign Exchange Rate Returns: Stochasticity and Deterministic Behavior

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

 

 

            I. N. Tansel and C. Erkal

The Chaotic Characteristics of Three Dimensional Cutting,

 International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacturer. Vol.32,No.2,811(1992)

 

            I.N. Tansel, C. Erkal and T. Keramidas

"The Chaotic Characteristics of Three Dimensional Turning"

a conference paper, presented and published at 1991 Winter Annual meeting at ASME (December 1991).