Sema Salur

{{short description|Turkish-American mathematician}}

Sema Salur is a Turkish-American mathematician, currently serving as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rochester.{{cite web |title=Sema Salur |url=https://web.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/salur/Sema_Salur_Home_Page/General_Information.html |website=University of Rochester}} She was awarded the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize for 2014–2015,{{cite web |title=Ruth I. Michler Prize 2014-2015 |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/ruth-i-michler-prize/michler-prize-2014-2015/ |website=Association for Women in Mathematics}} a prize intended to give a recently promoted associate professor a year-long fellowship at Cornell University;{{cite web |title=The Ruth I Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM |url=https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Michler_Memorial_Prize.html |website=St Andrews University}} and has been the recipient of a National Science Foundation Research Award beginning in 2017.{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #1711178: Manifolds with Special Holonomy and Applications |url=https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1711178 |website=National Science Foundation}} She specialises in the "geometry and topology of the moduli spaces of calibrated submanifolds inside Calabi–Yau, G₂ and Spin(7) manifolds",{{cite web |title=Professor Sema Salur receives NSF Research Award |url=https://web.math.rochester.edu/news-events/news/2017/02/ |website=University of Rochester}} which are important to certain aspects of string theory and M-theory in physics, theories that attempt to unite gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces into one coherent Theory of Everything.