Prof. Dr. Bedia Berker (January 2003)
With Ahmet Selim Berker, Mt. Chocorua (1987)
Ratip Emin Berker (June 2003)
My paternal grandmother Zeliha (standing in the middle and in upper left) with her five older brothers and two nieces, in year 1895, at Yenişehir (now Larissa)
Istanbul Technical University Mechanical Engineering Faculty Professor’s Committee (1955). From left to right: Prof. Dr. Fahri Terzioğlu (Aeronautics), Prof. Dr. Fikret Narter (Mech. Eng.), Prof. Dr. Kamur Görgün (Mech. Eng.), Prof. Dr. Ratip Berker (Founding Dean), Prof. Dr. Hilmi İleri (Mech. Eng.), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mesut Savcı (Naval Eng.), Prof. Dr. Hikmet Binark (Dean), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selim Palavan (Mech. Eng.), Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Sağışman (Mech. Eng.), Prof. Dr. Ata Nutku (Naval Eng.), Prof. Dr. Bekir Dizioğlu (Mech. Eng.), Prof. Dr. François Ducio (Mech. Eng.). This portait hangs at the Dean’s Offices at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Istanbul Technical University and at the Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty of Kadir Has University.
Ord. Prof. Dr. Ratip Berker
Click for Foreword to his "Mechanics Lessons" book
Leyla Ceylan (Berker) Yaybulak (1921 - 2014)
Click for First Place in Istanbul University Faculty of Law.
Leyla Ceylan (Berker) Yaybulak with Nihat Berker (1949), Ahmet Selim Berker (1976), Ratip Emin Berker (1999)
With my friend Nafiz Girginok, Mühürdar Bağı Street, Caferağa Neighborhood, Kadıköy (1959)
Front row: Abdullah, Şükrü, Afif, Coşkun.
Back row: Nihat, Nafiz, Ahmet, Demir.
Mühürdar Avenue, Caferağa Neighborhood, Kadıköy (1959)
Lycée Saint Joseph, section 6B, 1960-61
Lycée Saint Joseph, section 7A, 1961-62
Under the protection of physics laws: On top, air pressure against the paper prevents the spilling of the water in the glass.
In the middle, the water does not spill on his head. At bottom, eventually, the water is drunk (1975).
Assoc. Prof. A. Nihat Berker, MIT (October 1983)
New lattices invented
TÜBITAK Science Prize 1988, presented by Prime Minister Turgut Özal.
Basketball (Nihat Berker has the ball), during Summer 1989 visit to Bilkent University
With two of his doctorate students in his MIT office, practicing the King Tut walk (1994).
From left: Alexis Falicov (currently M.D.Ph.D. Surgeon, Seattle), Daniel P. Aalberts (currently Prof., Physics Dept. Head, Williams College), and N. Berker.
On back wall, from left, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificient signature (edge seen), Takiüddin miniature, Feza Gürsey poster, on blackboard bimodal distribution.
ITU GAP trip (1998)
At ITU GAP trip, with Doç. Dr. Cem Güçlü and Prof. Dr. Bedia Erim Berker (1998)
29 July 1998
New Year's Eve 31 December 1998
As ITU-MIT Freshman Scholars 2003, Kezban Yağcı (Industrial Engineering Dept.)
and Sertaç Karaman (Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Depts.) at MIT (April 2004)
With his students from the Mechanical Engineering Dept.:
Ali Emre Aydın, Ömer Oral, N. Berker, Özkan Çelik (April 2004)
With his research group at ITU. From left: Ozan Sarıyer, Aykut Erbaş, Aslı Tuncer, Sayad Baronyan, Nadir Kaplan,
Gülşen Akın Evingür (from Prof.Dr. Önder Pekcan’s research group), Burcu Yücesoy, Andım Doldurucu.
Research group students not present in photograph: Neşe Aral, Michael Hinczewski, Başak Renklioğlu.
(March 2005, photograph: Garbis Özatay)
Lectures on Phase Transitions and Renormalization-Group Theory – we love chalk (March 2005, photograph: Garbis Özatay)
(March 2005, photograph: Garbis Özatay)
With ITU-MIT Freshman Scholars 2004 at MIT. From left: Zekiye Esra Alpaslan (Management), Murat Yüksek (Electrical-Electronic Eng.),
Pınar Kişioğlu (Sciences and Letters), N. Berker, Olgu Şengül (Mechanical Eng.), Elif Eroğlu (Sciences and Letters),
Selvi Önkoyun (Electrical-Electronic Eng.), Gizem Özpınar (Sciences and Letters), Cihan Metiner (Textile Eng.) (April 2005)
ITU top students, after receiving their ITU-MIT Freshman Scholar 2004 certificates:
From left to right, E. Alpaslan, M. Yüksek, P. Kişioğlu, E. Eroğlu, S. Önkoyun, G. Özpınar, C. Metiner, O. Şengül (April 2005).
On back wall, MIT Physics Department Faculty who in recent years were awarded the Nobel Prize, receiving their certificates from the King of Sweden:
From left to right, S. Ting, H. Kendall, J. Friedman, C. Shull, W. Ketterle, F. Wilczek.
KU top students, after receiving their KU-MIT Freshman Scholar 2005 certificates:
From left to right, C. Özdemir, M. Yılmaz, A. Ozansoy, MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education Prof. Dr. D. E. Hastings,
Prof. Dr. N. Berker, K. Türker, P. Tözün (April 2006).
On back wall, MIT Physics Department Faculty who in recent years were awarded the Nobel Prize, receiving their certificates from the King of Sweden:
From left to right, S. Ting, H. Kendall, J. Friedman, C. Shull; more to the left (not seen on this photo), W. Ketterle, F. Wilczek.
Wyoming 2006
Surprise birthday party at one of the regular Sunday morning group meetings:
Can Güven (KU), Nadir Kaplan (KU), Seçil Lafçı (Inanç High School), Burcu Yücesoy (ITU), N. Berker, Neşe Aral (KU)
Cakified spin Hamiltonian
Not-no-knife, without pity
30 September 2006
Fast Turks in Tokyo (October 2006)
Fast Turks Fast Train Tokyo October 2006
KU top students, KU-MIT Freshman Scholars 2006 Ferhat Özduran and Ece Öztürk, at
N. Berker's MIT office (12-135) in front of Piri Reis, Siyah Kalem and Osman Hamdi (April 2007)
Traditional Kuruçeşme brunch of the students who have been at MIT with the KU-ITU-MIT Freshman Scholars program, May 2007
Tinos Island, Greece, June 2007
The future is in the skies (2007)
Montana 2007
The Grinnell Glacier is melting (2007)
Ahmet Selim Berker, Carol Berker, Ratip Emin Berker, and Bedia Erim Berker (August 2007)
"Ratip Berker and His Principles" seminar, ITU School of Mechanical Engineering (November 2007)
Nihat Berker and Michael Hinczewski (December 2007)
KU-ITU Statistical Physics Research Group at MIT: Nadir Kaplan, Ozan Sarıyer, N. Berker,
Aykut Erbaş, and Can Güven (December 2007)
Global BEG
KU-MIT Freshman Scholars 2007 at MIT (April 2008). From left, Gökçe Yazğan, Baran Gözcü, Efe Can Yıldırır,
Meral Yasmin Aşçı, Ayşegül Coşkunlar, Kıvanç Muşlu. With them, Nihat Berker and
ITU-MIT Freshman Scholar 2004 (see photos 24 and 25 above) Esra Alpaslan, Visiting Scientist 2008 at MIT
Traditional Kuruçeşme brunch of the students who have been at MIT with the KU-ITU-MIT Freshman Scholars program, May 2008
The joy of the electrical train (May 2008):
Prof. Dr. Robert H. Swendsen, Prof. Dr. Nihat Berker, Prof. Dr. Anastasios Malakis
German Television (Opera Palace, Berlin, 24 June 2008)
Returning from the 100. Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, at the Bookplace Restaurant: Doç. Dr. Alkan Kabakçıoğlu,
N. Berker, C. Nadir Kaplan, Doç. Dr. Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz, and V. Ongun Özçelik (December 2008)
On the way to the Pittsburgh APS Conference, in New York City:
Seda Avşaroğlu, Barış Avşaroğlu, Gül Gülpınar, Burcu Yücesoy, Neşe Aral,
Can Güven, Ongun Özçelik, Michael Hinczewski, and Nadir Kaplan
(March 2009)
In one jump, Vronsky reached, from the table seen on the right, the top of the door.
From this feat, a physics exam question was derived.
March 2009
Teaching high-school students, July 2009 (Newsweek Turkey)
Tosun Terzioğlu, Güler Sabancı, Nihat Berker at the Presidential Inauguration of Sabancı University
30 July 2009
Alaska Skagway Glacier, August 2009
Sabancı University 2009 Year-End Party: Prof. Dr. Cihan Saçlıoğlu, Prof. Dr. Bedia Erim Berker, N. Berker, and Prof. Dr. Tosun Terzioğlu
Sabancı University 2009 Year-End Party
N. Berker, SU Board of Trustees Chairperson Güler Sabancı,
SU Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) Director Dr. Volkan Özgüz
(5 January 2010, Anadolu Ajansı)
Giving the seminar "Earth's Currents and Clouds, Jupiter and Saturn's Ice Moons"
(Aghia Giorgi, Prince's Island, Istanbul, 15 May 2010)
Robert College High School graduation speech, June 2010
At SU Alumni Reunion, the President's yellow t-shirt goes as scholarship fund lottery prize to Metin Tabalu (SU 2003) (3 July 2010).
SU Information Center Film Night: The Social Network (12 October 2010)
Traditional Kuruçeşme brunch of the students who have been at MIT with the SU-KU-ITU-MIT Freshman Scholars program, May 2011
MIT-SU Freshman Scholars 2012 in the Courtyard of the Süleymaniye Mosque (27 March 2012):
Tolga Çağlar (SU), Priyanka Saha, Kevin Wong, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski , Daniel Mokhtari, Leo Zhou,
Mark Velednitsky, Amy Greene, Fangdi Sun, Emine Mandal (SU), Nihat Berker, Sami Yazıcılaroğlu (SU-MIT 2011).
MIT-SU Freshman Scholars 2012, on the terrace of SUMinerva Palas in Karaköy (29 March 2012).
Front row: Mark Velednitsky, Amy Greene, Fangdi Sun, Priyanka Saha, Reyhan Ayas (SU-MIT 2012).
Back row: Kevin Wong, Daniel Mokhtari, Leo Zhou, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski , Arın Can Ülkü (SU-MIT 2012).
In the background the Golden Horn, Topkapı Palace, Saint Sophia, the Blue Mosque.
MIT-SU Freshman Scholars 2012 spell it out in Beşiktaş (31 March 2012):
Priyanka Saha, Amy Greene, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski , Daniel Mokhtari.
MIT-SU Freshman Scholars 2012, in the courtyard of the Genovese-Byzantine-Ottoman fortress on top of the hill at Anadolu Kavağı (31 March 2012):
Mark Velednitsky, Ahmet Evcen (SU), Selin Evcen (SU), Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Kevin Wong, Leo Zhou, Priyanka Saha, Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz (SU),
Arın Can Ülkü (SU-MIT 2012), Amy Greene, Daniel Mokhtari, Fangdi Sun, Tolga Çağlar (SU), Emine Mandal (SU),
Sami Yazıcılaroğlu (SU-MIT 2011), Ege Gülcan (SU-MIT 2011), Ayşe Pamer (MÜ), Murat Kahraman (SU-MIT 2012), Efe İlker (SU).
In the background, the Bosphorus opens to the Black Sea.
SU-MIT Freshman Scholars 2012 in front of the MIT Stata Building (3 April 2012):
Eren Kahraman, Murat Kahraman, Onur Demir, Reyhan Ayas, Hazal Ayhan, Nihat Berker, Arın Can Ülkü.
MIT-SU ve SU-MIT Joint Certificate Ceremony, MIT (6 April 2012):
Murat Kahraman, Onur Demir, Eren Kahraman, Daniel Hastings (MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education),
Slyvia Ceyer (MIT Head of the Chemistry Department), Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz, Amy Greene, Nihat Berker,
Kevin Wong, Priyanka Saha, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Daniel Mokhtari, Leo Zhou, Arın Can Ülkü,
Hazal Ayhan, Mark Velednitsky, Sertaç Karaman (ITU-MIT Freshman Scholar 2004).
SU Alumni Reunion, May 2013
Bozcaada Island, July 2013
Russell Glacier, Greenland, 24 August 2013
Greenland Ice Cap, 26 August 2013
Sailing off from Kalamış with SU-Sail: Can Berk Sansoy, Elçin Kaya, Oya Tekbulut (September 2013)
The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, NYC, 18 October 2013. The Hudson River in the background.
SU Basketball 17 December 2013
SU Volleyball 12 February 2014
Ord.Prof.Dr. Ratip Berker, on screen at Koç University (May 2014)
On stage at the Süreyya Opera (May 2014)
Before Commencement, the diplomas are being signed at the President's House (14 June 2014).
Vice-President Prof. Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz, N. Berker, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences Prof. Ayşe Kadıoğlu (October 2014)
Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences Prof. Yusuf Menceloğlu, N. Berker (October 2015)
SU Handball 26 February 2015
Teacher Emine Durukanoğlu's Primary School Summer Enrichment Program, Kılavuz Village, Of, Black Sea Region, August 2015
Kara Kulak High Plain, Giresun, Black Sea Region, August 2015
Singapore (September 2015)
Boston Common (October 2015)
SU Alumni Ball, Moda Deniz Kulübü, 5 December 2015
SU Alumni Ball, Moda Deniz Kulübü, 5 December 2015
Ottoman Port excursion of SU ArtClub under the leadership of Tülay Artan (29 November 2015)
9. "Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics - Societal Responsability" International Conference, Sabancı University Karaköy. Conference dinner, Olympos Restaurant, Galata Bridge. Left front to back: Bedia Erim Berker (ITU), Anastassios Malakis (Athens U), Claire and Nikolas Fytas (Coventry U), Tolga Çağlar (Sabancı U), Aslı Tuncer (Işık U), Neşe Aral (Koç U). Right front to back: N. Berker, Hülya Adak (Sabancı U), Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz (Sabancı U), Zehra Akdeniz (Piri Reis U), Gül Gülpınar (Dokuz Eylül U), Burcu Yücesoy (Northeastern U), Ozan Sarıyer (Piri Reis U), Cihan Özen (Piri Reis U). 28 December 2015.
Marbling, Nihat Berker, purple rhinoceros (14 February 2016).
The marbling was done by Bedia Berker.
At Sabancı University 10-yearly Search Conference (19 March 2016)
At the SU-IGÜ Basketball Championship game: MIT-SU Freshman Scholar Lee Albright Bernick,
Tami Bolk from the MIT Global Education Office, Nihat Berker (23 March 2016)
After the Basketball Championship game, with SU team captain Barış Esen and other SU players (23 March 2016)
A reflection in Paris, 6 April 2016
International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism, Fethiye (April 2016)
Sabancı University Traditional Gallipoli Trip (30 April 2016).
A group from the 360 students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests who participated this year.
Towards Graduation (May 2016)
Secretary General Haluk Bal, Nihat Berker, Buket Bal, at President's House Barbecue (31 May 2016)
Barcelona (July 2016)
Nanomagnetism Workshop Invited Talk, Coma-Ruga, July 2016.
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Alhamra Palace, Granada (July 2016)
In Alhamra Palace Gardens (July 2016)
Dancing at the Certificate Ceremony of the Sabancı University Summer School for High School Students:
Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz, Nihat Berker, Gülseren Caşın (5 August 2016).
SULYO 2016 Video, Super Assistants Video.
SU Summer School for High School Students 2016 Certificate Ceromonies.
Nihat Berker in the middle, with red shirt above (1. Term), yellow shirt below (2. Term).
Administrators and assistants of the Sabancı University Summer School for High School Students, from left to right:
Gülseren Caşın, Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz, Nihat Berker, Elif Ulugöl,
Umur Kurtuluş, Selin Onat, Deniz Gökçin, Mehmet Tevfik Güven, İpek Köse, Cansu Karabağlı.
Front row: Bulut Kuşkonmaz, İrem Arık (5 August 2016).
SULYO 2016 Video, Super Assistants Video.
SU School of Management MBA and MFinance Programs at the Rector’s House (8 September 2016).
With our family in Çeşme during Holiday. Front left: Zafer Ergunt, Nihat Berker, Bedia Berker. Front right: Pınar Erdil, Onur Ergunt, Mert Erdil.
Back: Musa Erdil, Hanife Erdil, Latife Ergunt, İkbal Söyük (12 September 2016).
SU Alumni Association Rhodes Excursion: In the fortress of the Knights (October 2016)
Painting by Dila Nil Kılıç
Reuniting with my students at Sabancı University: Naz and Dila Nil Kılıç (the artist of the painting in the previous photo)
Burgaz - Antigoni - Island (26 May 2019)
From Sabancı University Students (2016)
Kadir Has University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, June 2017: In front row, Assoc.Prof. Ahmet Yücekaya (EM Dept. Head), Prof. Volkan Ediger (ES Dept. Head), Prof. Önder Pekcan (BIG), Prof. Nihat Berker (EEE, Dean), Prof. Aldülkadir Özdeğer (IE), Assoc.Prof. Metin Şengül (EEE), Prof. Kemal Yelekçi (BIG Dept. Head). In middle row, Assist.Prof. Şebnem Eşsiz Gökhan (BIG), Assoc.Prof. Atilla Özmen (EEE), Assoc.Prof. Serhat Erküçük (EEE), Prof. Zeki Ayağ (IE), Assist.Prof. Taner Arsan (CE, Associate Dean). In back row, Assist.Prof. Esra Aktunç Ağca (IE), Assist.Prof. Burak Çavdaroğlu (IE), Assist.Prof. Gökhan Kirkil (IE), Assist.Prof. Emre Çelebi (IE), Prof. Feza Kerestecioğlu (CE Dept. Head), Assoc.Prof. Selçuk Öğrenci (EEE, Associate Dean), Assoc.Prof. Habip Şenol (CE), Assist.Prof. Tamer Dağ (CE), Assoc.Prof. Cafer Çalışkan (CE, Director of Institute of Natural Sciences), Assist.Prof. Eliya Büyükkaya (CE), Assist.Prof. Hatice Bahar Şahin (BIG). Not on photograph: Assoc.Prof. Ebru Demet Akten (BIG), Prof. Ayşe Hümeyra Bilge (IE), Assist.Prof. Ayşe Bahar Delibaş (EEE), Assist.Prof. Öznur Yaşar Diner (CE), Assoc.Prof. Cem Özen (BIG), Prof. Erdal Panayırcı (EEE Dept. Head), Assoc.Prof. Funda Samanlıoğlu (IE), Assist.Prof. Yalçın Şadi (EEE). CE: Computer Engineering Dept., BIG: Bioinformatics and Genetics Dept., EEE: Electric-Electronic Engineering Dept., IE: Industrial Engineering Dept., ES: Energy Systems Dept.
Kadir Has University Summer School for High School Students 2017.
252 high school students from 75 high schools have participated.
Overweight Augmented Mechanics (July 2017)
At my office, next to marbling done by Ahsen Albaş,
who took my Augmented Mechanics course at the Kadir Has University Summer School for High School Students 2017
Opening remarks, XI. Istanbul IT Conference, Kadir Has University, 6 December 2017
Nihat Berker describes MIT (MEV Basınköy Anatolian High School, 6 December 2017)
ITU Physics Engineering Department dinner, 29 December 2017
New Year 2018 Party cake, Kadir Has University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Council of Higher Education Basic Sciences High Performance Undergraduate Program 2017-18
Percussion Workshop, Kadir Has University (23 January 2018)
Must play drums!
Viet Nam shirt (10 April 2018)
In helicopter, with President Prof. Dr. Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz in Silicon Valley
Kadir Has University open house (August 2018)
Liver breakfast at 6:00 am at the Kazancılar Market, Adana (December 2018)
Snake Fortress, Adana (December 2018)
Seminar on Takiüddin, at Conference organized in honor of Prof. Mehran Kardar at Rutgers University, New Jersey (December 2018)
At the Serdar Ortaç Concert, 26 January 2019, multi-colored feet
My friend Nihayet Durukanoğlu and the Alcibiades Philoctetes battle formation (19 June 2019)
From zoom surprise birthday party for President Sondan Durukanoğlu Feyiz, 11 August 2020.
Masked Birthday Party with my friends Nur Başürün and Emre Özdoğan, 20 September 2020.
Photo I took during a romantic full-moon walk with Prof. Dr. Bedia Erim Berker at Çeşme (June 2021).
Tunceli Munzur Valley (May 2022).
Kadın Azmağı River, Akyaka, Muğla (September 2022)
Love and Roses (May 2024)