Umran Inan is a prominent Turkish scientist at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in the field of geophysics

Geophysics

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...

 and very low frequency

Very low frequency

225px|thumb|right|A VLF receiving antenna at [[Palmer Station]], Antarctica, operated by Stanford UniversityVery low frequency or VLF refers to radio frequencies in the range of 3 kHz to 30 kHz. Since there is not much bandwidth in this band of the radio spectrum, only the very simplest signals...

 radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

science. Since Fall 2009, Inan is the president of Koç University

Koç University

Koç University is a private, non-profit institution, founded in 1993 and located in Istanbul, Turkey. One of the top universities in Turkey, it is supported by the financial resources of the Vehbi Koç Foundation, set up by Vehbi Koç, a leading Turkish businessman, “to serve humanity by increasing...

 as successor of Atilla Askar. He received the Ph.D. degree from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell

Robert Helliwell

Robert A. Helliwell was an electrical engineer and professor at Stanford University. He was one of the pioneering scientists in the study of whistlers and related ionospheric phenomena.-Early life:...

, and is currently the head of the Very Low Frequency research group at Stanford.

With his brother, Aziz Inan, he has authored two textbooks on electromagnetics:

• Engineering Electromagnetics (Prentice Hall
  Prentice Hall
  Prentice Hall is a major educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher-education market. Prentice Hall distributes its technical titles through the Safari...
  
   1998)
• Electromagnetic Waves (Prentice Hall
  Prentice Hall
  Prentice Hall is a major educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher-education market. Prentice Hall distributes its technical titles through the Safari...
  
   1999)

Research at Stanford

Research activities at Stanford include

• Effects of lightning on the ionosphere and magnetosphere
• Precipitating electrons from the radiation belts caused by VLF waves, both natural (lightning) and manmade (VLF transmitters)
• Generation of ELF/VLF waves with the HAARP
  High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
  The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ....
  
  facility in Alaska
• Wave-particle interactions between ELF/VLF waves and energetic radiation belt particles
• VLF remote sensing of ionospheric disturbances from cosmic gamma-ray sources
• AWESOME ELF/VLF instrument distribution under the International Heliophysical Year
• Investigation of naturally generated chorus and hiss waves in the ELF/VLF band

External links

• Very Low Frequency Group webpage
• AWESOME global instrument program official website
• Personal Profile
• http://www.ku.edu.tr/news.php?cid=3199 Professor Umran Inan: Our New President (Koç University Web Page)