I spent two weeks in University of California, Santa Barbara, for the Summer School on Materials in 3D. Everything was great except for the duration of the lectures, 90 minutes. All the people in the picture below survived, though. For me, Allosphere demonstration was the most exiting part of the summer school. Allosphere offers a unique platform to combine […]

Here are some the HDR images that I took in UCSB. Posted 31st August 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I took some pictures on the road to Santa Barbara. Here are pseudo-HDR versions of those pictures. Posted 31st August 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I will be attending a two-week (August 18 to 30) summer school about Materials in 3D: Modeling and Imaging at Multiple Length Scales organized by Dr. Tresa Pollock and Dr. Ram Seshadri. Posted 14th August 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I do try to update everything in this space. Here is a small one for my public education page. Figure showing an imaginary museum education situation with emotional responses (skin conductivity) of six students (blue circle) and a teacher (red circle). Positions can also be gathered to generate a point cloud for further correlation. Warhol […]

Here are some of the pictures I took at Millenium park. Posted 7th July 2013 by Ozgur Keles

Here are some of the pictures I took in Chicago on July 4th. I use Photomatix Pro to generate HDR images. For firework pictures, I just rotated the tripod head except the last one. Posted 7th July 2013 by Ozgur Keles

Here is a small lecture series on fracture in Turkish-still developing-please check the Kopma link in the main tab. Henüz hazırlamakta (düzeltilmemiş) olduğum kopma ders notlarının bir kısmına yukarıdaki menüden ulaşabilirsiniz. Her kesik çizgi arasında kalan alan bir konuyu temsil edecek şekildedir ve kendi içinde numaralandırılmıştır. Denklemler ‘D’ olarak gösterilmiştir. Malzeme bilimi üzerine Türkçe kaynak […]

I attended my second next generation scholars fair at Purdue University. The science fair provides an opportunity for graduate students to interact with junior level high school students and share their research. Below you can find some pictures from the organization and the survey results.   Posted 23rd April 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I was searching for another education class after I learned that the course I registered–Models and Modeling Perspective in Engineering Education–has cancelled due to lack of enrollment. Luckily, MIT Media Lab offers a much better course for my interest–Learning Creative Learning (there must be high enrollment). I signed up for the course and I am looking forward to […]

Our science for everyone talk group at Purdue University has been gathering for the last six months to discuss cutting-edge research and technology. We decided to expand the scope of our audience. Accordingly, you are encouraged to follow these thought provoking talks at Purdue Science website. Anyone can join our “Science for everyone talk group.” […]

I took these picture this afternoon. Birds are free. We are in the cage–mind, home, planet… Posted 25th December 2012 by Ozgur Keles

I presented my poster on mechanical behavior of pharmaceutical materials to 7th and 8th grade students at the Next Generation Scholars Research Fair. It was an interesting experience to interact with enthusiastic young people and talk about the science behind the tablets and pills we take. Each student made a business card onto which we, […]

One of my self-learning modules, Weibull Fit to Computer Generated Fracture Data, was recently published as a part of the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Fracture data can be generated in the module and fitted by the two-parameter Weibull distribution function. Method of moment estimators of Weibull modulus and characteristic strength; and P-values (based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling […]

Recently, I took an online class-“Writing in the Sciences” in Coursera lectured by Kristin Sainani at Stanford University; the class focuses on how to write a scientific paper effectively. In the first half of the eight-week class, Dr. Sainani encourages good writing by giving tips on grammar, explaining how to cut the clutter, reviewing examples, and using an active […]