Here is a listof recent lectures of Bjorn Birnir, with titles and links  to conferences.

The following lectures are either colloquia or seminars that I have given in the past. Some are accompanied by a shortmovieof computer simulations and in others I have simulations on a laptop computer that I show during the lecture. If you are interested in hearing any of these lectures after viewing them, send me emailbirnir@math.ucsb.eduand I will try to come and give the lecture, within the constraint of teaching, family, etc. Please state whether you are interested in a movie or a computer simulation, and what kind of audience to expect.

The relevant papers for the jet engine flow are:A finite dimensional attractor of the Moore-Greitzer PDE model, to appear in SIAM Journal of Appl. Math. (1998) and The basic attractor of the viscous Moore-Greitzer equations.

Landscape Formation (html): [Abstract] This lecture uses a mathematical model to explain how mountains, valleys and ridges are formed. This is joint work with Terry Smith in the Departments of Geography and Computer Science at UCSB and George Merchant who is a graduate student. Here is a postcript file of the lecture Landscape.ps.Most of the work has been done by the UCSB supercomputerCrunch.

There is of course no need to invite me to give these lectures. For those who know how to use
the gunzip unix command here is a compressed version of the ps files of the lectures. Just copy
them and gunzip them. Then you can print the ps files on a color printer and get the lectures with
no hassels. Here is the nanotechnology lecture: Quantumdynamics.ps.gz  the jetengine lecture:Jetengine.ps.gzand here is the erosion lecture: Landscape.ps.gz.