Tuesday: Rainy October 14, 2014 10°C / 20°C Wednesday: Rainy Volume 21 10°C / 21°C Number 4 Thursday: Rainy 11°C / 19°C Friday: Rainy bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr İLKENT EWS 12°C / 19°C B Weekly Newspaper of Bilkent UniversityN IAED Instructor’s Project Takes First Prize in International Bilkent Loses Competition Serdal Elver ilkent Interior Architecture and Environmental Design ilkent University lost PhD student and part-time Serdal Elver, assistant instructor Zeynep Öktem manager in the Bhas won first prize in the Procurement Office, on “Rediscovering Traditional BOctober 4, 2014. Materials” category of the Mr. Elver InnoMatnet competition. served the InnoMatnet, open to Europe-based university architects, engineers and designers, from 1989 focuses on the use of materials in the until his building industry. untimely The winning project, “Bird's death. We Nest,” is a concept for a self- would like to sufficient, demountable living unit express our that can be articulated on the roof of profound a building. The project was designed condolences by ONZ Architects, founded by to his family, friends and the Ms. Öktem and Onat Öktem. The Bilkent community. award ceremony was held in the He will be sadly missed not Design Terminal in Budapest on only by his family, but also by his September 17. friends and colleagues at Bilkent. Bilkent Archaeology Bilkent Youth Symphony in Germany ast month, the Bilkent Youth Graduate Student to Symphony Orchestra traveled to Germany as the partner Be Invited Speaker orchestra in “Beethoven ile at Swiss Buluşma – Encounter with Beethoven,"L performing concerts in International Berlin and Bonn as part of the Orchestra Campus project sponsored jointly by Symposium BeethovenFest Bonn and Deustche Welle. elim Yıldız, a second-year The focus of "Beethoven ile Buluşma – student in the Department of Encounter with Beethoven," now in its Archaeology graduate third year, is on musical partnership with program, is one of this year’s Turkey. This year, the BYSO came At their BeethovenFest concert at the in Berlin, where the program included invited speakers for together with alumni and musicians from Beethoven Halle in Bonn on September Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. A new S music schools around Turkey to perform 23, the BYSO, conducted by Işın Metin work commissioned by BeethovenFest an international symposium on at BeethovenFest 2014. The youth and joined by a quartet of German and and composed for the occasion by “IAW Excavations orchestra also took part in street music Turkish soloists, performed Beethoven's FMPA Asst. Prof. Tolga Yayalar in Asia Minor” to events and hosted children from Ninth Symphony. premiered in Bonn and was repeated in be held at Bern elementary schools for a special concert. On September 25 the orchestra played Berlin. University in Switzerland at the beginning of UNAM Research Highlighted in Eight Journal Covers December. eflecting the dynamic research and optical logic gates, as well as a Selim will talk about the Hellenistic environment fostered in nanowire-based take on the ever- occupation of the Lower Town at Turkey’s first national research popular lab-on-a-chip microfluidics Sirkeli Höyük, a huge multiperiod site center, eight articles by applications; while a long-running settled over almost 5,000 years, located Rresearch groups at UNAM have been collaboration between the groups of in the Cilicia region about 40 km to selected as cover pages for eminent Dr. Necmi Bıyıklı and Dr. Ali Kemal the east of Adana. His work at the site, journals in nanoscience, materials Okyay resulted in the design of a which is also part of the work for his chemistry and optoelectronics. Ranging method for the low-temperature master’s thesis, has gained from composite photocatalysts that blast fabrication of III-nitride thin films, international recognition over the past away at organic dyes to surface-etched allowing their production on two years, now cumulating in the channels that allow lab-on-a-chip materials with low melting invitation to the symposium in Bern. applications on the edges of microwires, temperatures. In addition, Dr. Volkan Demir’s team, in their turn, “We are proud to have students in cutting-edge research at UNAM has Okyay’s group designed and synthesized published a manuscript on a system that our graduate program who are, been highlighted on the covers of the a novel structure to enhance efficiency substitutes the commonly used despite being in the very early stages journals Nanoscale, Advanced Functional in dye-sensitized solar cells, based on a polymers PEDOT and PSS for a layer of of their academic lives, already Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, composite nanowire of the photoactive wolfram oxide to enhance QLED recognized as excellent researchers by Nanophotonics, Small, Laser & materials ZnO and TiO2. performance, and contributed to two the international archaeology Photonics Reviews and the Journals of Dr. Tamer Uyar’s and Dr. Necmi reviews on the optical properties and community,” says Asst. Prof. Thomas Materials Chemistry A and C. Bıyıklı’s research groups took the same energy transfer dynamics of quantum Zimmermann, acting chair of the Six of the highlighted publications two metal oxides in a different direction, dots. Department of Archaeology. “They are detailed the fabrication of novel coating a nanowire core with a thin shell In addition to these highlights, the not only paving the way for a nanomaterial architectures: Dr. Mehmet layer to create an effective photocatalyst research output of UNAM to date has successful career in their field—they Bayındır’s group reported a method to that produces electron/hole pairs under included more than 450 journal articles are also serving as envoys who produce polymer-embedded, light, uses the electrons for and has received 52 awards and 24 represent Bilkent University as a chalcogenide-based optical cavities with photocatalysis and “dumps” the excess patents since the time of the center’s center of academic excellence.” potential applications in mid-IR sensors holes to the material core. Dr. Hilmi founding in 2008. Bilkent News 2 NEWS Orhan Uludağ Wins International BELS Students Attend Roboschool in Award Germany ecently, two Bilkent Erzurum Ahmet and Mustafa also examined Laboratory School students programs that are used to design participated in the robots in 3D. They programmed a Roboschool program held at robot, Nao, that can dance and speak ludağ Architecture, reinterprets the use of building ChemnitzR University of Technology by like ASIMO (an advanced humanoid founded by Orhan Uludağ materials, technology and art to the German Federal Ministry of robot designed by Honda). In order to of the Department of integrate modern principles into this Education and Research. The program see the use of robots in daily life, Architecture together with building type. It was inspired by the offered students an introduction to Roboschool students went to the UZeynep Uludağ, has won the movement of the whirling dervishes, existing robot technology, its current Volkswagen motor factory, where prestigious “World Architecture fulfilling all the requirements of a use and its future potential. robots are used to produce motors. Community 16th Cycle” award for mosque in an experimental, exciting BELS students Ahmet Sedat Kargın In addition to learning about their design for the new Konya way. It proves that religious values do and Mustafa Necati Ayaz traveled to robotics, the BELS students Selçuklu Mosque. not have to be foregone for the Germany to attend Roboschool. experienced another culture, made The design they submitted was modern to be embraced. There, they learned about the new friends and improved their one they had completed for the World It is also worth noting that the fundamental features and working German by conversing with native Mevlana Year (as declared by Uludağ firm was shortlisted for the principles of robots, and applied their speakers. They toured some of the UNESCO) in 2007. In honor of the “World Architecture Community 17th knowledge by soldering with hard facilities at TU Chemnitz and also 800th anniversary of Mevlana’s birth, Cycle” awards with their sports solder and connecting devices to a traveled by high-speed train to a mosque was to be built in Konya. complex design for the Mersin circuit that had the basic structure of a Dresden, where they saw both natural The Uludağ firm’s design Mediterranean Games. robot. and historic landmarks. Faces on Campus By İsmail Kerimov (CS/II) Name: Hasan Bayram (AMER/III) Name: Doğaçhan Dağı (IR/II) Name: Kamran Bayramov (MAN/III) What's your favorite triple? What's your favorite triple? What's your favorite triple? a) Movie: “3 Idiots” a) Movie: “Mandarinebi a) Movie: “Scent of a Woman” b) Book: “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol b) Book: ”Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor b) Book: “The Count of Monte Cristo” by c) Song: “Gangsta” by Kat Dahlia Dostoevsky Alexandre Dumas Can you describe yourself in three c) Song: “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” by Pink c) Song: “Ta Fete” by Stromae words? “Imaginative, determined, the boss” Floyd Can you describe yourself in three words? If you could be anyone from the past, Can you describe yourself in three words? “Creative, strategic, independent” who would that be? “Henry Ford” “Progressive, emotional, empathetic” If you could be anyone from the past, who If you could be anyone from the past, who Who is your favorite cartoon character? would that be? “Ernest Hemingway” would that be? “Otto von Bismarck” Who is your favorite cartoon character? “Bugs Bunny” Who is your favorite cartoon character? “Johnny Bravo” If you were a superhero, what super “Papa Smurf” If you were a superhero, what super power(s) would you have? If you were a superhero, what super power(s) would you have? “The ability to fly” “Mind reading” power(s) would you have? “Teleportation” The place on campus where I feel happiest The place on campus where I feel The place on campus where I feel happiest is..