MUSTAFA HALILSOY

Professor 'Mustafa Halilsoy' (born February 25, 1949, Agios Nikolaos, Paphos, Cyprus) is a prominent Turkish Cypriot theoretical physicist, and received his PhD degree in physics from Middle East Technical University specializing in gravitational physics. He is one of the
contributors to general relativity,in particular Exact solutions in general relativity.
He is best known on his contribution '"the Nutku-Halil Solution for Colliding Impulsive Gravitational Waves"' where this work is cited by many other researchers i.e. [1]. [2]. His works appeared in the the seminal book
by Professor Jerry Griffiths [3], as well as listed in the
Bibliography of Colliding Plane Waves [4].
Professor Halilsoy is still actively working on gravitational physics at Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, focusing on exact solutions in general relativity. His analytic descriptions of colliding gravitational waves and singularity problems appeared in astro-physical black-holes, nonlinear problems of Mathematical Physics as well as fields and particles in general.

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Notable Research Students

External links

★ Academic Webpage

★ Derivation of Nutku-Halil Solution by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

★ Original Halil-Nutku paper appeared on Physical Review Letters

★ Yavuz Nutku's Academic Web Page

★ Colliding Plane Waves in General Relativity, Griffiths, J. B., , , Clarendon Press, 1991, ISBN 0-19-853209-1 The definitive resource on colliding plane waves, but also useful to anyone interested in other exact solutions.available online by the author

Notable Research Students

★ Özay Gürtuğ

★ İzzet Sakallı