Dr. Umurhan’s research focuses on evolutionary processes both on planetary surfaces and in protoplanetary disks. He has published on a number of topics including astrophysical flows and turbulence, fundamentals of shear flow instabilities, geomorphology and landform evolution and its modeling. Dr. Umurhan joined the New Horizons Geology and Geophysics Investigation Team in June of 2013. His main role on this mission has been in providing mathematical modeling framework for the various geophysical scenarios of interest and appropriate to the Pluto system. Dr. Umurhan regularly writes blogposts for NASA about New Horizons and he is also a co-author on a graduate level textbook on fluid dynamics for physicists due to come out this spring.
Sessions in which Dr Orkan Umurhan participates
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- What Kind of Planet Do We Want? San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
- 14:30 - 16:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Human beings have been part the ecology for so long that a "world without us" would be utterly different than anything that existed in the past. Li...
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- Dwarf Planets San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 17:30 - 19:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- We made to Pluto AND to Ceres - what did our probes find, and what about all of the other dwarf planets? Does Triton count? What about Planet X? Wh...
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- Autograph Session: Umurhan and Fraknoi San Mateo Marriott - Convene Lobby
- 16:00 - 17:00 | 1 hour