Research Interests
Björn Birnir is a Professor of Mathematics at the University
of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). He served as the UCSB coordinator
for nonlinear science from 1985-1990. He is currently the director
of the Center for Nonlinear Science at UCSB and the PI on a three-year
award from NS to analyze and control the instabilites in the flow
of air through a jet engine, and a three-year award from the NSF
to study the erosion and scaling of fluvial landforms. His current
research interest are: the qualitative analysis of nonlinear partial
differential equations (PDEs); dynamical systems theory; the qualitative
theory of nonlinear geographic systems;nonlinear phenomena in quantum
mechanical systems; and applications of the above. He is the author
of over 50 publications. |
