Taner Ture

Experience

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  ChessNYC

  Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

  Coach, Computer Tournament Director

  - Taught chess in 2-hour after-school programs approximately 3 days a week in various schools- Directed five-hour tournaments with an average of fifty players by creating pairings, adjudicating disputes, and recording results - Motivated and prepared students for competitive tournament play.

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  Virginia Dare Extract Co.

  Feb 2014 - Apr 2016

  Quality Control Intern

  - Responsible for characterizing products by running specific gravity, refractive index, flash point, UV-VIS, GC, moisture content and sieve tests.- Performed organoleptic testing on raw materials and finished products.- Organized control room containing more than 50,000 samples and maintained CoA library for incoming raw materials.- Trained in the use of the LIMS system, and the calibration and use of the following instruments: Shimadzu GC-2010, Perkin Elmer 12-561-43 Spectrometer, Bekman Coulter LS13320 Particle Size Analyzer, Karl Fischer Metrohm 870 Moisture Analyzer, Anton Parr DMA4500 DensityMeter, Metler-Toledo RE40 Refractometer, Reichert R2 i300 Refractometer, Mettler-Toledo pH meter, Grabner FLP Flash point analyzer, EndecottsM100 Auto Sieve Show less

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  Brooklyn College

  Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  College Assistant Tutor

  - Tutored Brooklyn College students in Computer Science and Calculus I for 9-12 hours a week.- Assisted students with homework problems and study questions- Prepared review sessions before midterms and finals

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  The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

  Sept 2015 - May 2024

  Ph.D. Candidate

  -Coded numerical and analytical solutions for partial differential equations in quantum mechanics and physics. -Generated algorithms for more efficient time-evolution based on the Magnus Expansion. -Quantitatively analyzed widely-used approximations in spectroscopy, and studied open quantum systems. -Responsible for giving tutorials/presentations on quantum dynamics, machine learning, and quantum computing as an Initiative for Theoretical Sciences (ITS) Simons Fellow (2023-2024).-2017 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention Show less