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{{short description|Turkish American mathematician}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2022}}
'''Halil Mete Soner''' is a Turkish American [[mathematician]] born in [[Ankara]] and is the Norman John Sollenberger Professor at [[Princeton University]].
Soner's research interests are nonlinear partial differential equations; [[asymptotic analysis]] of [[Ginzburg–Landau theory|Ginzburg-Landau type systems]], viscosity solutions, and mathematical finance.
Currently he is working on [[mean field games]] and control and related nonlinear partial differential equations on Wasserstein spaces.

==Education==
After graduating from the [[Ankara Science High School]], he started his university education at the [[Middle East Technical University]] in Ankara, later transferred to [[Boğaziçi University]], [[Istanbul]] in 1977. He received a [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] in [[mathematics]] and another in [[electrical engineering]] simultaneously in 1981, both in first-rank. Soner then attended [[Brown University]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island|RI]], [[United States|U.S.]] on a research [[scholarship|fellowship]], where he obtained his [[Master's degree|M.Sc.]] (1983) and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] (1986) in [[applied mathematics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://soner.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf4216/files/documents/cv-soner.pdf|title=Mete Soner}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1985, Soner was [[research associate]] at the Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota|MN]] and, [[assistant professor]] and then [[professor]] between 1986-1998 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania|PA]]. During 1997-1998 he was Research Associate at the [[Feza Gursey Institute for Basic Sciences]] in Istanbul and [[visiting professor]] of Mathematics at the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and the [[University of Paris]], [[Paris]], [[France]]. From 1998 for two years, Soner was “Paul M. Whythes `55” Professor of Finance and Engineering in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at [[Princeton University]]. Then, he moved to [[Koç University]] where he served as the Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics until September 2007. From 2007 until 2009 he was the Isik Inselbag Professor of Finance in [[Sabancı University]]. From 2009 to 2019 he was a Professor of Financial Mathematics at [[ETH Zürich]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swissfinanceinstitute.ch/faculty_research/faculty/list_professors_local/local_professors_soner.htm|title=ETH|publisher=[[Swiss Banking Institute]]|access-date=November 12, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162919/http://www.swissfinanceinstitute.ch/faculty_research/faculty/list_professors_local/local_professors_soner.htm|archive-date=April 25, 2012}}</ref> Currently he is the chair of the department of [[Operations Research and Financial Engineering]] at Princeton. The meeting METE held in ETH Zurich in 2018 provides an account of his contributions. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://math.ethz.ch/fim/activities/conferences/past-conferences/2018/METE.html|title=Conference Mete at ETHZ}}</ref>

Soner co-authored a book, with [[Wendell Fleming]], on [[viscosity solutions]] and [[stochastic control]]; ''[[Markov process|Controlled Markov Processes]] and Viscosity Solutions'' (Springer-Verlag) in 1993, (second edition 2006). He authored or co-authored papers on [[nonlinear partial differential equations]], [[viscosity solutions]], stochastic optimal control, [[mathematical finance]], martingale [[optimal transport]] and [[mean field games]] and control.

==Awards==
He received the [[Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey|TÜBITAK]]-TWAS Science award in 2002, was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Investigators Grant<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&topicID=66 |title=ERC: European Research Council - ERC Advanced Investigators Grant |access-date=2010-10-01 |archive-date=2011-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903011549/http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&topicID=66 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in 2009 and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 2014 and was elected as a SIAM Fellow in 2015.

==Personal life==
He lives in Princeton with his wife Serpil and they have a son, Mehmet Ali.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://soner.princeton.edu/ His homepage]

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