-Information Technologies Non Thesis Program: This program creates an opportunity towards a career in the IT area for newly graduates and those professionals planning a major change in their career track. The curriculum has a rich enough spectrum that's suitable for IT professionals as well who would like to improve their skills and broaden their expertise in the area.

-Data Analytics Non Thesis Program: This program creates an opportunity towards a career in Data Analytics area for graduates of disciplines such as computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, statistics, economics and other fields with a quantitative focus and for professionals who have ample work experience in a data-analytics-related area and are seeking in-depth training in Big Data Analysis.

-Energy  Technologies and Management Non Thesis Program: This program creates an opportunity towards a career in Energy area for graduates of disciplines such as engineering, basic sciences, economics, management, politics and other fields with a quantitative focus and for professionals who have work experience in energy or other related areas .

The candidates who have completed a undergraduate program are eligible to apply to these programs. Newly graduate candidates should complete their undergraduate degree till
08th September, 2016.
 
Application Documents and Requirements:

1. Completed Online Submission Form & Specific Requirements Form

2. Official Transcript: Sealed and taken from Student Affairs of the applicant's university indicating the courses and grades taken.

3. Two Letters of Recommendation: These should be either submitted online or posted in a sealed envelope. For the sample letter please click here.

4. English Proficiency Exam Result: Any of the following test results baring the min.   Scores and which are within the validity period as indicated below. Photocopies are acceptable for application, but original copies should be submitted during admission.

TOEFL : Min. score 78 in Internet-based test, Min. score 210 in Computer-based test, Min. score 547 in Paper-based test.
IELTS : Min. score 5.5
KPDS : Min. score 65
ÜDS : Min. score 65
YDS: Min. score 65
e-YDS: Min. score 65

The validity periods for these scores are as follows: TOEFL and IELTS 2 years, KPDS ,ÜDS, YDS ve e-YDS 3 years.
Applicants who could not submit a valid English Proficiency Exam Result may be admitted the program on the condition to get a satisfactory grade from the Sabanci University English Language Exam Assessment (ELAE). Those candidates who fail to attend or get a satisfactory score in the exam are obliged to attend and successfully complete a full course of English Language Preparation in order to continue with graduate courses. Failure to complete this course successfully will result in termination of enrollment at Sabancı University.

Graduates of Sabanci University who are admitted to a MA program are exempt from submitting an English Proficiency Exam score provided that they apply within two years following their graduation.

5. Current Resume (CV).

6. Statement of Purpose

7. One recently taken photograph
 


For more Information:
Ece Kaya / Merve Sarı
Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences
Sabancı University
Orhanlı, Tuzla , 34956 İstanbul
Phone: (216) 483 9691 / 9962
Fax: (216) 483 9550
mail: ekaya@sabanciuniv.edu /mkirmizigul@sabanciuniv.edu
http://msit.sabanciuniv.edu/en
http://da.sabanciuniv.edu/en
http://energy.sabanciuniv.edu/en
 

Early Application and Interviews:
Last day of early applications is June, 03th 2016. After initial screening, interviews will be scheduled for potential candidates. Interviews will be done June, 06th-17th, 2016 (Interview schedule is subject to change).

Deadline and Interviews:
Applications must be submitted by August, 19th, 2016. After initial screening, interviews will be scheduled for potential candidates at Sabancı University during August,

22nd-26st,2016 (Interview schedule is subject to change).
 
Application Address:
Applicants either can submit their application packages in person or can send via mail to Department of Sabancı University Student Office. The date on which the documents are reached to SU will be taken into consideration. Applications sent by email could not be accepted.
 
Sabanci University

Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Cd. No:27,Student Resources Office
34956 Orhanlı/Tuzla
İSTANBUL

Phone: (216) 483 9093
Fax: (216) 483 9073
E-Mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu

Komatsu donated various species of the Sakura to Sabancı University between 2007 and 2009. The extremely delicate saplings required great effort to nurture, as a result of which 1440 trees developed healthily. Although the exact time may vary by year, the Sakuras on campus bloom sometime between the end of March and beginning of April, much like those in Kyoto, Japan. The Sabancı University campus has Turkey's largest Sakura collection. 

In the years that went by, the Sakuras on campus grew and some reached a height of 4 meters. In time, the trees will grow even taller and provide a pleasant setting for picnics, friendly chatter or studying in their shade.  

The stone comes from Gujyo, a city in the Gifu prefecture located in the center of Japan. More than 10,000 years have passed since the stone was made and the round shape of the stone was formed naturally by the torrent of the river.  Therefore, it represents that the stone can endure any hard struggle. 

There are 7 varieties of Sakura on the Sabancı University campus. These varieties are: Prunus x subirtella ‘Autumnalis’, Prunus lannesiana ‘Antiqua’, Prunus lannesiana ‘Hisakura’, Prunus lannesiana ‘Hanagasa’, Prunus lannesiana ‘Sekiyama’, Prunus  x yedoensis ‘Yedoensis’, Prunus lannesiana ‘Surugadai-odora’

What is Sakura? The significance of the Sakura in Japanese culture

Sakura, or Prunus Serrulata ("Japanese Ornamental Cherry") blooms annually, starting with the island of Okinawa in January. The trees in Tokyo and Kyoto bloom in late March to early April, and the season concludes with the blossoms in Hokkaido, in northern Japan. When the infinitely beautiful Sakuras blossom, Japanese people flock to parks, gardens and temples for blossom-watching parties, called "hanami." Hanami, or having picnics underneath Sakura blossoms is a centuries-old tradition in Japan.

In Japanese culture, Sakuras are likened to clouds because of their color and appearance from a distance. For many people, walking underneath a cascade of Sakura blossoms is akin to walking under snowfall. Festivals are held throughout the country to celebrate this act of nature. The significance of the blooms is not due to their exceptional beauty alone: for the Japanese, the blossoming of cherries symbolizes starting life anew. Being very short-lived, the blossoms also symbolize the temporality and brevity of life. Sakura inspires poems and songs. 

It is known that kamikaze pilots drew this blossom on their planes before taking off for the last time. The Sakura was also used as an analogy to keep spirits up during the war. It is also said that the first kamikaze battalion had a unit named "Yamazakura" or "wild cherry blossom." Common belief is that fallen warriors are reincarnated in cherry blossoms.

Sakura is also a woman's given name in Japanese, and the blooming season is called "Sakura zensen." Not only do the Japanese celebrate the blossoming of cherry trees, but they also arrange important life events, marriages, starting a new job and going on vacation according to Sakura zensen. The cherry blossom has a phenomenal presence in Japan. Thousands of tourists from all over the world arrive in Japan every year to take part in festivals held in 26 parks across 11 provinces. Celebrating the blossoming of cherry trees is not limited to Japan. Other countries that turn this glorious natural event into a festival include the United States, Canada, Germany and the Philippines.

Photo credit: Nesrin Balkan

The cooperation agreement signed between Sabancı University and the Insurance Information and Monitoring Center (SBM) includes the implementation of the "Big Data Analytics to Detect Insurance Fraud" Project. The signing ceremony for the cooperation, which will be implemented within the Sabancı University Big Data Behavioral Analysis and Visualization Laboratory, took place on Friday, March 4, 2016 at the Karaköy Minerva Palas with the attendance of Sabancı University President Professor A. Nihat Berker and Insurance Information and Monitoring Center CEO Aydın Satıcı.

Sabancı University and Insurance Information and Monitoring Center (SBM) signed a strategic cooperation agreement.  The signing ceremony for the "Big Data Analytics to Detect Insurance Fraud" Project to be implemented within the Sabancı University Big Data Behavioral Analysis and Visualization Lab took place on Friday, March 4, 2016 at the Karaköy Minerva Palas. 

The meeting began with introductory remarks by Sabancı University President Professor A. Nihat Berker. Professor A. Nihat Berker emphasized the importance Sabancı University places on university-industry partnerships, saying “The insurance industry in particular is the guarantee of sustainability for individuals and the society, and it deserves protection. Each case of insurance fraud makes the society and individuals suffer both morally and materially."

Sabancı University Big Data Behavioral Analysis and Visualization Laboratory Directors and Sabancı University faculty members Burçin Bozkaya and Selim Balcısoy also spoke at the ceremony. Burçin Bozkaya said, “Our expectations from the project include using data analytics on insurance data collected centrally to identify the profiles, factors and circumstances which facilitate insurance fraud, and leveraging this information to achieve better fraud prediction rates. The analytical and visual tools in the Lab will be actively used to reveal these relationships."

Selim Balcısoy commented, “Our work with SBM will be one of the first studies in the world on the analysis of all insurance records in a given field nationwide. An effective analysis with massive quantities of complex data requires the presentation of this data with different visual and interactive methods. Data visualization methods and tools to be developed on SBM data will give us important clues to understanding such an extensive data network."

SBM CEO Aydın Satıcı provided details about SBM and the "Big Data Analytics to Detect Insurance Fraud" Project. Aydın Satıcı explained that SBM was the data center of the insurance sector where all policy and claims data is collected on a real-time basis, making SBM one of the few institutions in the world with this capability. Satıcı said that the analytics and analysis performed on this rich source of data provided value to the insurance sector and promoted growth. Satıcı also stated that they developed analytical models and performed social network analyses to prevent fraud, one of the greatest issues in the industry, and implemented the Fraud Prevention Bureau to identify cases of organized fraud.

Satıcı continued, "This cooperation with Sabancı University will improve our fraud prevention capabilities by developing a learning analytical model for Turkey based on observation of user behavior, while later stages of the project will include social media analyses, telematics studies, location-based analyses and fraud detection efforts in other lines of business to reduce fraud rates, mitigate the financial losses of insurance companies, and help to reduce insurance premiums for honest citizens."

The project will be implemented within Turkey's first and only Big Data Behavioral Analysis and Visualization Laboratory founded by Sabancı University in association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the strategic partnership of Akbank under sponsorship by SAS, a global leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent solution provider in business intelligence. The project aims to prevent or substantially reduce insurance fraud, one of the largest costs in the insurance sector, by using big data analytics. The claims data and insured profiles kept by SBM, the data center of the industry, will be examined by various data mining methods to identify possibly fraudulent cases or individuals with a higher probability of committing fraud in order to take precautions on a central level. Mitigating fraud will contribute to the profitability of insurance companies, which in turn is expected to translate to lower insurance premiums for honest citizens.

The Sabancı University Alumni Association requests the pleasure of your company at a conference on “Innovation at the Nanoscale: Opportunities and Challenges” by Prof. Dr. Sadık Esener, Co-Chairman of Sabancı University Board of Trustees and Founding Director of the Cancer Early Detection Research Institute and Wendt Chair at the Knight Cancer Center.

Date: Monday, 21 March 2016
Venue: Sakıp Sabancı Museum, the Seed
Registration: 17:30 Conference: 18.00

Shuttle will be avaliable at 16:00 from School of Management parking lot. After the event shuttles will come back to campus.

Please confirm your participation at +90 216 483 9497 or sumed@sumed.org.tr .
 

Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Murat Germen’s work is on exhibition at the Toronto Aga Khan Museum in Canada. The "A City Transformed: Images of Istanbul Then and Now" exhibition will be available for viewing until June 26, 2016. 

The experimental and documentary imagery of photographic questioning created by Murat Germen are displayed alongside photographs from the Ömer M. Koç collection in the Aga Khan Museum designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. Albums, panoramas, and individual photographs from the 1850s to the early 1900s borrowed from the Ömer M. Koç private collection are combined with 21st-century views of "New Istanbul" photographed by Murat Germen that seem almost futuristic in their rendering of scale and space, witnessing a succession of empires, the migration of peoples, and astounding urban growth. This is the first time Murat Germen's supersized moving image projections and panoramas of new Istanbul taken by drones are offered for public viewing.

The Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Forum celebrates International Women's Day with a number of events in March. Events include a trivia contest, film screenings and panel discussions.

The first of the celebratory events held by the Gender and Women's Studies Forum will be the Feminist Trivia Challenge, which will take place on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 12:40 hours in the Cafeteria. The contest will be in Turkish and English, and winners will get various prizes.

The first panel discussion to commemorate International Women's Day will be held on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at the Sabancı University campus. The keynote speaker of the event co-hosted by the Cultural Studies Program and the Gender and Women's Studies Forum will be Aslıgül Berktay with her lecture titled "The Black Atlantic: Recrafting History, Culture, Gender, and Religion”. The Cinema Club will co-host the screening of “Mustang” in the Cinemal Hall the same evening. Members of the Gender and Women's Studies Forum will have an interview with the audience after the film.

The “Gender and Peace: Women's Role in Peace Building” panel discussion will be held on Saturday, March 12 at 3 pm at the Karaköy Minerva Palas. Speakers will be Doğuş Derya and Mouna Ghanem.

The series will continue with concerts by all-women bands Zile Basıp Kaçanlar and Ritimkolektif in the Cinema Hall on Tuesday, March 15.

On Monday, March 21, at 2:40 pm, Anita Toutikian will give a lecture titled "The Story of An Art Career from a Woman Perspective” at the Sabancı University campus.

The series will conclude with the screening of the film “Çekmeceler” in the Cinema Hall on Tuesday, March 22 co-hosted by Civic Involvement Projects.

Program:

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
Feminist Trivia Challenge
Place: Cafeteria Time: 12.30
Language: Turkish and English

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
Speakers Series (Cultural Studies & Gender Forum)
Aslıgül Berktay "The Black Atlantic": Recrafting History, Culture, Gender, and Religion
Place: FASS GO52 Time: 15.30 - 16.45
Language: English

MUSTANG (co-hosted by the Cinema Club)
Film Screening
Yer: Cinema Hall Time: 18.30
Language: Turkish (English subtitles)

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016
PANEL DISCUSSION  
“Women’s Role in Peace Building”
Panelists: Doğuş Derya and Mouna Ghanem Moderator: Ayşe Betül Çelik
Place: Minerva Palas, Karaköy Time: 15.00 - 18.00

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016
CONCERT (Women's Bands)   
Zile Basıp Kaçanlar
Ritimkolektif
Place: Cinema Hall Time: 13.00

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2016
Anita Toutikian "The Story of An Art Career from a Woman Perspective"
Place: FASS GO49 Time: 15.30 - 16.45
Language: English

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016
ÇEKMECELER (co-hostede by CIP)
Film Screening
Place: Cinema Hall Time: To be announced
Language: Turkish (English subtitles)

Sabancı University and Akbank make a groundbreaking move in finance excellence: “Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF)”

Sabancı University established the "Center of Excellence in Finance" (CEF) with the founding sponsorship of Akbank for achieving excellence in finance. The center will bring significant value to Turkey in finance, and act as a bridge between the manufacturing industry and financial institutions, market regulators, academics and students.

Nihat Berker - Suzan Sabancı Dinçer - Özgür Demirtaş

Sabancı University established the "Center of Excellence in Finance" (CEF) with the founding sponsorship of Akbank for achieving excellence in finance. The launch event for the center was held on Tuesday, March 8 at the Sabancı Center. Attending the press conference were Akbank Board of Directors Chair Suzan Sabancı Dinçer, Sabancı University President Professor Nihat Berker and Sabancı University Finance Chair and CEF Founding President Professor Özgür Demirtaş.

Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) aims to bring academics, industry leaders, public bodies and investors together to transform fundamental knowledge into applications with real-life relevance. The advisory board of the Center is composed of globally-renowned individuals in each of the above sectors. Sabancı University CEF Advisory Board includes Akbank Board of Directors Chair Suzan Sabancı Dinçer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Economics Professor Daron Acemoğlu, Former Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann, Former Minister of State for UK Trade and Investment Lord Stephen Green, Harvard Business School Management Professor Dante Roscini, Former US Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, and Former US Secretary of the Treasury and former Harvard University President Larry Summers.

Akbank Board of Directors Chair Suzan Sabancı Dinçer pointed out that education, entrepreneurship and culture and arts were priorities in their social responsibility efforts to create a better future for Turkey, continuing “We believe that such sustainable projects will be our greatest legacy. Implemented with Sabancı University as Turkey's first finance center of excellence, the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) brings us much excitement already."

CEF will ensure an excellent finance workforce

“Our intention with CEF is to build bridges between the university, finance industry and manufacturing industry. This bridge will ensure an excellent finance workforce. CEF will bring academics, industry leaders, public bodies and investors together to transform fundamental knowledge into applications with real-life relevance. CEF will become an academic powerhouse that generates survey reports, articles and analyses needed by the finance sector and banks in particular. CEF will launch with a conference and certificate program this year, and evolve into an international platform that complements the knowledge of finance professionals in Turkey, raising more valuable individuals in 5 years.”

Sabancı University will provide world-class education with CEF

Speaking at the press conference, Sabancı University President Professor Nihat Berker said that they took another step in quality and difference with CEF, continuing, “Sabancı University has been at the forefront of education and public service since established. The Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) in our university will be an innovative initiative in finance thanks to our vision to create and disseminate groundbreaking original knowledge, and our confidence in creativity in research and education. Through this center, Sabancı University will provide world-class education and issue survey reports that will generate the knowledge needed in the finance sector, becoming an instrument of education in this area.”

Sabancı University Finance Chair and CEF Founding President Professor Özgür Demirtaş said, “Quality has been the top priority for all events designed by CEF right from the beginning. The names on the advisory board of CEF is proof that quality matters to us above all. We will seek quality in our international conference that will begin on June 3, and in our certificate programs that will begin in October, where we will host the most distinguished figures in finance. CEF will be a groundbreaking center in high-quality finance education, make great contributions to Turkey's aspiration to become a financial hub, and help the international recognition of the country and the region."

CEF Objectives:

• Educate manufacturing industry leaders, finance executives, university students and young professionals in certificate programs led by renowned instructors whose       teaching skills are recognized worldwide;
• Host series of seminars by well-known foreign academics and workshops with the leaders of the finance sector in Turkey to enable exchange of opinions and current survey findings;
• Conduct high-quality research in various areas of finance, including asset valuation, asset allocation, investments, corporate finance, corporate governance and company valuation;
• Contribute to financial literacy and access to capital and risk management instruments for individual investors.
  

CEF trainings are planned in the following categories:

• University students and young professionals will be eligible to attend 4-day Basics of Finance courses.
• Finance executives and manufacturing industry leaders will be able to attend 2- to 4-day courses on Corporate Finance, Company Valuation, Project Appraisal, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Asset Valuation, Investments, and Asset Allocation. Corporate investors will be offered seminars, workshops and quarterly survey reports.
• CEF’s official website and events will share survey data for small investors and other market followers. In addition, CEF will hold an annual international conference where the leaders of the world's finance sector will come together with academics, practitioners of finance, industry leaders and market regulators. CEF also intends to generate and disseminate high-quality research output in financial economics. The CEF website will publish this research data as well as research papers and articles published by faculty members in academic journals.

A film made by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design faculty member Yoong Wah Alex Wong and his students won the "Royal Reel" for Animated Films in the 2016 Canada International Film Festival.

The animated film titled “CTRL+S” was produced in 15 weeks by a team led by Yoong Wah Alex Wong and composed of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students Alicem Batmansuyu, Başak Erbakan, Duygu Güneşli, Eda Alfasa and Aljaz Tepina, Industrial Engineering student Doruk Erduran, and Computer Science and Engineering students Jonathan Stapf and Mustafa Hassan Malik. 

Last year, “CTRL+S” was featured in international film festivals in Brazil, Russia and the Philippines.

The crew of “CTRL+S”:

Supervisor: Yoong Wah Alex Wong

Script: Sabancı University 2015 Animation Team

Animators and Modelers: Alicem Batmansuyu, Başak Erbakan, Doruk Erduran, Duygu Güneşli, Jonathan Stapf, Mustafa Hassan Malik.

Motion Graphics: Eda Alfasa.

Rendering and Editing: Aljaz Tepina.

Sound Design: Alicem Batmansuyu. 

Synopsis: Sometimes we forget to save or backup our work when we work on the computer. Sudden computer system failures and virus attacks may cause us nightmare that requires us to be extra cautious to save and archive our work frequently.  Ctrl+S is a fictional short film depicting a young female character who falls asleep in front of the computer confronted with a strange dream.

As a modern society we spend irrational amounts of time in front of the computer, sometimes leading to an unusual attachment to a physical object when there is too much data and information to be digested. At the same time, computers are extremely complicated tools and we do not always fully understand their internal systems. As a human being and being human, we tend to be a little superstitious when something goes wrong with our machines, we sometimes blame the computer itself as if it has ill intentions towards us. These ill intentions are symbolized in this short film by the character of the Plug-girl, an evil digital spirit working in the control room of the computer, causing all kinds of mischief. Opposite of her, we find Electro, a humble and lowly worker, who takes care of the computer, always making sure it works like a well-oiled machine. One day, when it comes time to repair an error, these digital spirits clash into confrontation.

Please click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pThKDyhI54s