Betul Orcan-Ekmekci, PhD in Mathematics
Associate Teaching Professor of Mathematics
Rice University
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I am a dedicated mathematician and educator. I joinned the Mathematics department of Rice University in September 2011. Since 2023, I have been an associate teaching professor of Mathematics at Rice University.
I study nonlinear PDEs, especially free boundary value problems, fluid dynamics, and homogenization.
I received my PhD in mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Luis Caffarelli, in December 2010.
I received my B.Sci and M.Sci from Boğaziçi University in 2003 and 2005, respectively.
Honors & Awards:
Honors & Awards:
2025 The George R. Brown Prize for Superior in Teaching
2024 The George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching
2024 The Outstanding Teaching Award from the Wiess School of Natural Sciences
2023 The George R. Brown Prize for Superior in Teaching
2021 The George R. Brown Prize for Superior in Teaching
Research & Publications
Research & Publications
Orcan-Ekmekci, On the Geometry and Regularity of Largest Subsolutions for a Free Boundary Problem in R2 : Elliptic Case, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (2013), 1-26.
V. Hoang, B. Orcan-Ekmekci, M. Radosz, H. Yang, Blowup with vorticity control for a 2d model of the Boussinesq equations, Journal of Differential Equations 264 (12), 7328-7356
Thiago J Pinheiro dos Santos, Betul Orcan-Ekmekci, Walter G Chapman, Philip M Singer, Dilipkumar N Asthagiri, Theory and modeling of molecular modes in the NMR relaxation of fluids, 2024, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol: 160, Issue: 6
Orcan-Ekmekci, Homogenization results for a Free Boundary problem with Stationary Ergodic Free Boundary in R2 : In the Form of Layers, Submitted.
B. Orcan-Ekmekci, Homogenization results for a Free Boundary problem with Stationary Ergodic Free Boundary in R2: Elliptic Case, Preprint.
B. Orcan-Ekmekci, About Euler equations on the torus, Preprint.
B. Orcan-Ekmekci, On the highly oscillatory Plateau problem, Preprint.
B. Orcan-Ekmekci, Optimal Regularity Results for Parabolic Integro-Differential Equation with Obstacle, Preprint.
B. Orcan-Ekmekci, On the geometry of least supersolutions for a free boundary problem in the elliptic case, Preprint
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