We celebrated Ramadan Bayrami (Eid-ul-Fitr) at Warner Park Community Recreation Center. We had a bayram breakfast that is typical Turkish breakfast with tea. In addition to the breakfast as it is known without dessert you cannot celebrate the bayram. So we had a lot of delicious desserts including baklava.
Tuncer Edil, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, made a introductory speech. He spoke about old bayram celebrations in Turkey and in Madison. We remembered our childhood bayram celebrations.  He said children used to visit elder people …

The second Cultural Conversation was held at TACC-Madison on March 1, 2009. The speaker was Tuncer Berat Edil, a prominent Turkish professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Edil has received his BS and MS in civil engineering from Robert College in Turkey and his PhD in civil engineering from Northwestern University. He has been on the faculty at UW-Madison since 1973. He has founded the Geotechnical Engineering program at UW-Madison. He has received many awards during his academic career including the prestigious 2007 TUBITAK …