presentations

Plenary Talks

• Searches for Additional Scalar Bosons with the CMS Experiment, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the Higgs Hunting 2024 Workshop, 23-25 September, 2025, Orsay and Paris, France
• ATLAS and CMS Top Quark Rare Searches (Flavor Changing Neutral Currents), E. Yazgan for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, at the Standard Model at the LHC 2024 Workshop, 7 - 10 May, 2024, Rome, Italy.
• CMS Highlight talk: Search for extra Higgs bosons through same-sign top-quark production in association with an extra jet , E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the LHC TOP Working Group Meeting, 29 Nov - 1 Dec, 2023, remote meeting.
• Top Quark Properties, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS, and CMS Collaborations, at the 8th Edition of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP2020), 25-30 May 2020, fully online conferece.
• News from CMS,E. Yazgan, at the PDF4LHC meeting, 13 December 2018, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• CMS Needs and Concerns, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the Physics Event Generator Computing Workshop, 26-28 November 2018, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Overview of underlying event measurements for DY in CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the LHC EW Precision sub-group meeting, 22-25 May 2018, LAL-Orsay, France
• Top Quark Modelling and Tuning (CMS), E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at TOP2017 - 10th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, 11-22 September 2017, Braga, Portugal.
• PDF Order and Pythia8 Tunes in CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the PDF4LHC meeting, 6 September 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Underlying event and Multi-Parton Interactions Tuning in CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators Workshop, 2-5 May 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Recent results on top quark physics with the CMS detector, E. Yazgan, CERN LPCC EP-LHC Seminar Series, 31 May 2016, CERN, Switzerland.
• Study of Top Properties with the CMS Detector, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, in La Thuile 2016: Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste, 6-12 March 2016 La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy.
• Top Quark Measurements in CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, in QCD 14: 17th International Conference in Quantum Choromodynamics (QCD), 1 July 2014, Montpellier, France.
• Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Top Production and Decay, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS, CDF, CMS, and D0 Collaborations, in TOP 2013: 6th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, 18 September 2013, Durbach, Germany.
• Measurements of Top Quark Properties at the LHC, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, in Rencontres de Moriond (QCD and High Energy Interactions), 9-16 March 2013, La Thuile, Italy.
• Production of W/Z bosons and of W/Z+jets at CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at Standard Model Benchmarks at High-Energy Hadron Colliders, 15-17 June 2011, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany.
• Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in \(Z\rightarrow\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\) Events in CMS at 7 TeV, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, in SPIN 2010: 19th International Spin Physics Symposium, September 27 - October 2, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany.
• The CMS barrel calorimeter response to particle beams from 2 GeV/c to 350 GeV/c, E. Yazgan for the CMS ECAL and HCAL Collaborations, at the XIII International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (CALOR 2008) in Pavia, 26-30 May 2008, Italy.

Invited Talks, Lectures and Posters

• Event engineering techniques for small systems in CMS, E. Yazgan in EMMI Workshop: QCD Challenges from pp to AA collisions, 6-10 July 2026 Torino, Italy.
• Event Generators in CMS, E. Yazgan, in CMS Heavy Flavor Tagging Workshop 2018, 11-13 April 2018, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
• Top Quark Modelling in CMS, E. Yazgan, in LHC Days in Split, 19-24 September 2016, Split, Crotia.
• Highlights of Top Physics Results from CMS at LHC Run I, E. Yazgan, in Fundamental Interactions - be and IAP Meeting, 19 June 2015, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• Asymmetries at Colliders at Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), E. Yazgan at Institut de recherche en mathematique et physique (IRMP), Center for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), March 11, 2015, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
• Top Physics, E. Yazgan, Lectures in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2017, 16-21 July 2017, Gottingen, Germany.
• Top Quark Physics “, E. Yazgan, Lectures in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2016, 17-22 July 2016, Gottingen, Germany.
• Top Quark Physics (Production and Mass), E. Yazgan, Lectures in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2015, 19-24 July 2015, Gottingen, Germany.
• Top Quark Physics (Properties), E. Yazgan, Lectures in Hadron Collider School - HASCO 2014, 20 July - 1 August 2014, Gottingen, Germany.
• Top Quark Physics at Colliders, Invited Lecture at ERASMUS ISSCSMB-12, International Summer School and Conference on High Energy Physics: Standard Model and Beyond, 28 August - 8 September 2012, Belek, Antalya, Turkey.
• Cosmic Muons and the First LHC Beams, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, Invited talk at ISSCSMB-09, International Summer School and Conference on High Energy Physics: Standard Model and Beyond, 27 August-4 September 2009, Akyaka, Mugla, Turkey.
• Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in CMS via Vector Boson Fusion in the H → WW → ℓνℓν Channel, E. Yazgan, et al., Invited poster presentation at the XXIII International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energy (LP07) Aug 13-18, 2007 in Daegu, Korea.

Talks

• Charged Higgs boson searches at the LHC, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, 1 June 2026, Extended Scalar Sectors From All Angles 2026 workshop, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Top quark properties in CMS: tt spin density matrix, quantum entanglement, and quantum magic, E. Yazgan for CMS Collaboration, 7-11 July 2025, EPS-HEP Conference, Marseille, France.
• Harmony between ATLAS and CMS (in systematic uncertainty estimations), E. Yazgan (presenter), E. Palencia Cortezon, A. Knue, D. Hirschbul, at the LHC TOP WG Meeting, 1-3, December 2021, Online, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Modelling the data at the LHC, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, at PANIC2021 (22nd Particles and Nuclei International Conference (online), 5-10 September 2021, Lisbon, Portugal.
• QCD Monte Carlo model tuning studies with CMS data at 13 TeV, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at 27th Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects - DIS2019, 8-12 April, Torino, Italy
• Top Quark Event Modelling and Generators in CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at European Physical Society (EPS) Conference on High Energy Physics, 5-12 July 2017, Venice, Italy
• Other Follow-up points from LHC MC Workshop (intro followed by discussion), E. Yazgan, at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 6-7 June 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Discussion of top modeling systematics for Run 2 in ATLAS+CMS, A. H. Knue (presenter), E. Yazgan, at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 6-7 June 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Object Definitions for Top Quark Analyses at the Particle Level CMS-NOTE-2017-004, J. Goh, O. Hindrichs, A. O. M. Iorio, M. Komm, Y. Roh, M. Seidel (presenter), P. Silva, E. Yazgan, at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 6-7 June 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 6-7 June 2017, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Differential Distributions: comparison to MCs and interpretation, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 21-23 November 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Top Quark Event Modeling and Generators in CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the QCD@LHC2016 Workshop, 22-26 August 2016, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ATLAS and CMS pole mass measurements, E. Yazgan for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 17-18 November 2015, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• W/Z Results from CMS at 7 and 8 TeV, E. Yazgan for the CMS Top Physics Analysis Group, at The Working Group on Top Physics at the LHC (TOPLHCWG) meeting, 20-21 May 2015, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Measurement of Top Quark Properties in Single Top Production at CMS, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at ICHEP 2014: 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, 2-9 July 2014, Valencia, Spain.
• Towards a Measurement of Spin Correlations in ttbar Events at the LHC using Matrix Element Method, K. Beernaert, M. Grunewald, E. Yazgan (presenter), at Zurich Phenomenology Workshop (ZPW2014) Monte Carlo Simulation and 2nd Mini-Workshop on Advances in the Matrix Element Methods, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• Measurements of Top-Quark Properties, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at CMS at DIS 2013: XXI. International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 22-26 April 2013, Marseille, France.
• W/Z Results from CMS at 7 and 8 TeV, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at The Working Group on Electroweak Precision Measurements at the LHC, and PDF4LHC, 8-10 October 2012, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• HCAL response: HB performance, E. Yazgan for the CMS HCAL Collaboration, at the International CMS Workshop on Cosmic Ray Data Analysis, March 11-13 2009, Torino, Italy.
• CSA07(2007 Computing, Software, and Analysis Challenge) HCAL Calibration, E. Yazgan for the CMS HCAL Collaboration, at the Paris Workshop for Particle Flow and Tau ID at L’Observatoire de Paris, 19 Oct. 2007, Paris, France.
• Neutrino Emission During Stellar Collapse, E. Yazgan, at the Summer School on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Feza Gursey Institue, (2002), Istanbul, Turkey.
• Comparison of the Models to Explain Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma Repeaters, at the Summer School on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Feza Gursey Institue, (2002), Istanbul, Turkey.
• Electron Distribution in the Galaxy and Pulsar Distances, E. Yazgan , at the National Astronomy Meeting, Antalya, September 2002.
• Magnetar Phenomena at the National Astronomy Meeting, E. Yazgan, Antalya, September 2002.
• Do AXPs, SGRs and Radio Pulsars Accrete?, E. Yazgan, at the National Astronomy Meeting, Antalya, September 2002.
• Evolution of AXPs, SGRs and DRQNSs at the X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy, E. Yazgan, ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) Workshop, Middle East Technical University (METU) July (2002), Ankara, Turkey.
• Pulsar spin-down by a Fall-back Disk and the \(P-\dot{P}\) Diagram, E. Yazgan, at the High Energy Astrophysics Summer Research Program (2001), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Spin-up of the White Dwarf in the Intermediate Polar YY Draconis, E. Yazgan, at the High Energy Astrophysics Workshop (2000), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Posters

• Midterm Report on Decadal Mission – 2026: Towards the New Physics Higgs/Flavor Era, E. Yazgan, K.-F. Chen et al., Academic Summit Project (ASP) Annual Interchange Meeting, March 2025, Taiwan.
• Midterm Report on Decadal Mission: Towards the New Physics Higgs/Flavor Era, E. Yazgan, K.-F. Chen et al., Academic Summit Project (ASP) Annual Interchange Meeting, March 2024, Taiwan.
• Search for Extra Higgs Bosons at the LHC, T.-H. Hsu, Z.-G. Chen, G. Kole, E. Yazgan, J. Thomas-Wilsker, L. Ceard, Y. Chao, K.-F. Chen, G.W.S. Hou, Y.-W. Kao, Academic Summit Project (ASP) Annual Interchange Meeting, 24-25 March 2023, Taiwan.
• Search for Extra Higgs Bosons at the LHC, E. Yazgan, L. Ceard, Y. Chao, K.-F. Chen, G.W.S. Hou, T.-H. Hsu, Y.-W. Kao, Academic Summit Project (ASP) Annual Interchange Meeting, 25-26 March 2022, Taiwan.
• Towards a Measurement of Spin Correlation of ttbar Events at CMS using a Matrix Element Method, K. Beernaert (presenter by), M. Grunewald, E. Yazgan, in LHC students poster session in 113th LHCC Meeting, 13 March 2013, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in \(Z\rightarrow\mu\mu\) Events in CMS at 7 TeV, E. Yazgan for the CMS Collaboration, at the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics - ICHEP 2010, July 22-28, 2010, Paris, France.
• CMS Achievement Award for the year 2007 for Crucial Constributions to the Analyses of Combined Calorimeter Beam Tests and Global Runs, E. Yazgan, in the CMS Achievement Awards Ceremony, 22 June 2009, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in CMS via Vector Boson Fusion in the \(H\rightarrow WW\rightarrow\ell\nu\ell\nu\) Channel, E. Yazgan (presenter), and J. Damgov, at the Fermilab Users Meeting, June 2007, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA.
• A study of \(H\rightarrow WW*\rightarrow\ell\nu jj\) at CMS, H. Kim (presenter), N. Akchurin, J. Damgov, S. Kunori, H. Pi, and E. Yazgan, at the American Physics Society, APS April Meeting (2006).
• Theoretical Investigation of Carbon Nanotoroid Structures, E. Yazgan, E. Tasci, O.B. Malcioglu, and S. Erkoc, in the Turkish Physics Association 22. Physics Congress (TFD22), September 14-17 2004, Bodrum, Turkey.
• Stability of Carbon Nanotoroids, E. Yazgan (presenter), E. Tasci, O.B. Malcioglu, and S. Erkoc, at the NATO-Advance Study Institute (ASI) Nanoengineered Nanofibrous Materials September 1-12, 2003, Belek-Antalya, Turkey.

Selected CMS Internal Presentations

• “Truth” information in CMS samples (for the physics generators group) in the NGT Workshop: what’s the truth?, 2-4 March 2026, CERN, Switzerland.
• News from Higgs Hunting 2024 (Orsay/Paris) in the Beyond 2 Generations General Meeting, 1 October 2024, CERN, Switzerland.
• Uncertainties from Parton Shower Codes, Deep Dive on Modeling Uncertainties, 15 September 2023, CERN, Switzerland.
• Event Generators in CMS, CMS Heavy Flavor Tagging Workshop 2018, 11-13 April 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
• Top Quark Event Modeling at ~100 fb$^{-1}$, E. Yazgan and J. Fernandez, Top@100 fb$^{-1} Workshop, 8-9 November 2016, CERN, Switzerland.
• Top Quark Pole Mass, $\alpha_s$, and PDFs, Beyond-2-Generations/Top Quark Run 2 Workshop, 20 October 2015, CERN, Switzerland.
• The top Quark at 13 TeV, Plenary talk at the CMS Week 4-8 May, 2015, CERN, Switzerland.
• The DY Forward Backward Decay Asymmetry, US CMS Weekly Meeting, November 18, 2011, CERN, Switzerland.
• HCAL, CASTOR and ZDC performance, 7 TeV Jamboree, April 8, 2010, CERN, Switzerland.
• The HCAL Anomalous Events, US CMS Weekly Meeting, February 19, 2010, CERN, Switzerland.
• HCAL Muon Response at the CRAFT Data Analysis Workshop, December 10, 2008, CERN, Switzerland.
• HB Muon Response as a function of tracker momentum from CRAFT and Cosmic Monte Carlo at ECAL+HCAL Simulation Task Force, November 14, 2008, CERN, Switzerland.
• CMS Calorimeter Response to Hadrons, E. Yazgan and J. Damgov, ALL USCMS Meeting, 19 January 2007, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA.
• Improvements to the energy resolution based on TB2006 studies, HCAL Agenda for December 2006 CMS Week, December 4, 2006, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA.
• Optimization of Energy Reconstruction, at the Fall USCMS HCAL Meeting at Fermilab, October 26, 2006, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA.

Department Seminars

• Asymmetries at (Hadron) Colliders at Université catholique de Louvain, March 11, 2015, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
• Top Quark and Asymmetries at Colliders at the Middle East Technical University (METU), December 26, 2014, Ankara, Turkey.
• Asymmetries at Colliders at the Ghent University (UGent), September 3, 2014, Gent, Belgium.
• Early Z Boson Measurements at CMS in pp Collisions at 7 TeV at the Le Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Ecole Polytechnique, February 21, 2011, Palaiseau, France.
• Early Z Boson Measurements at CMS in pp Collisions at 7 TeV at the Institut de Physique Nucl aire de Lyon (IPNL), January 19, 2011, Lyon, France.
• Electroweak Bosons at CMS in pp Collisions at 7 TeV at the Middle East Technical University (METU), September 13, 2010, Ankara, Turkey.
• First LHC Beam and Cosmic Muons in CMS at the Middle East Technical University (METU), March 30, 2009, Ankara, Turkey.
• Search for the Higgs Boson at the Middle East Technical University (METU), 1 July 2006, Ankara, Turkey.