The Faculty of Sciences, one of the oldest
faculties of our university, was established in 1933.
The faculty consists of the Departments of Astronomy
and Space Sciences, Biology, Physics, and Mathematics.
Four separate diplomas are bestowed and research
is undertaken on sciences in these departments.
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The Department of Astronomy and Space
Sciences trains its students through an eight-term
(four years) graduate programme that comprises
courses in mathematics, physics, and computer,
as well as astronomy and space sciences.
The department, which has facilities like astrographs,
Lyot filters, telescopes, photometers, micro-photometers,
and computer laboratories, researches into such fields
as small planets, the sun, triple colour photometry,
star astrophysics, the structure of the galaxy, and
cosmology, in coordination with various universities
in the United States of America. Information on
the universe and the sky is made available to the
public through a number of activities. The project
of a planetarium is in the process of completion.
The Department of Biology teaches, during a
three-year period, joint courses in biology, after
which, in their fourth year, the students select,
according to their fields of interest,
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one of the seven proposed package programmes and take
their first steps towards specialization. Research
on the subjects such as flora-fauna systematic,
morphology, ecology, cytology, histology, physiology,
microbiology, radiobiology, hydrobiology, molecular
biology, genetics, and biochemistry is undertaken
in well-equipped laboratories, with facilities like
the latest appliances and electron microscopes.
Some of the work is done through international
cooperation and some through projects sponsored
by national institutions. The department has a
Botanical Garden and a Herbarium, a Zoology
Museum and a Hydrobiology Museum used for
research purposes.
The Department of Physics the first of its kind
in Turkey. The undergraduate programme is
completed in four years. During the first seven
terms, students study joint courses after which
they have to choose between two groups of
courses. The department undertakes joint international
projects, experimental and theoretical work, and
aims to prepare its students as well-rounded
physicists on graduation.
The Department of Mathematics equips its students
with the basic knowledge of mathematics and
endows them with competence in thinking
mathematically and an ability to solve mathematics
problems. After a three-year period of joint
courses, students are asked to choose between
two
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programmes. A great number of internationally
acclaimed mathematicians, such as Prof. Cahit
Arf, have been educated at this department.
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