Ayşe Şahin, Ph.D appointed as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Ayşe Şahin received her BA in mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in ’88 and her MA (’92) and PhD (’94) in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park.   She was an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND from 1994-2000 and an Associate Professor from 2000-2001.  She moved to DePaul University in Chicago, IL in 2000 where she was promoted to full professor in 2010.  She joined the faculty at Wright state in July, 2015 as the Chair of Mathematics and Statistics. 

Şahin’s research area is in ergodic theory and dynamical systems.  Her focus is on actions