List of Invited Lectures at Meetings

1989
Symposium Continuum Models and Discrete Systems 6 , June 1989, Dijon, France. Invited speaker.
International Conference on Stochastic Methods in Experimental Sciences, COSMEX-89, Szklarska Poreba, Poland, September 1989, Invited speaker.
1991
Summer School, Almeria, Spain, August 1991. Invited lecturer.
1992
Summer School "Ondas y Olas", Almeria, Spain, July 1992. Invited lecturer.
Meeting-Workshop on Mixing in Geophysical Flows, Barcelona, Spain, December 1992. Invited speaker and session chairman.
1993
ESA Interfacial Phenomena Symposium, Madrid, February 1993. Invited speaker and session chairman.
General Assembly of European Geophysical Society, Wiessbaden, April 1993. Invited speaker.
International Conference "New trends in Pattern Formation in Active Nonlinear Media", Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 1993. Invited speaker.
NATO Grand Final "Chaos, Order and Patterns", Como, Italy, September 1993, Invited speaker.
1994
European Physical Society - Condensed Matter Division, 14th General Conference, Madrid, March 1994, Invited Speaker and session chairman.
Third International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications O(h3), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 1994. Invited speaker.
Summer School "Caos y Turbulencia", Santander, Spain, September 1994. Invited lecturer.
1995
Summer School "Técnicas experimentales y metodos numéericos", Santander, Spain, September 1995. Invited lecturer.
1996
Summer School "Application of Mathematics'',Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 1996. Invited lecturer and session chairman.
Programme "Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics'', Newton Institute, Cambridge, Oct.-Dec. 1996. Invited participant.
1999
International Conference on Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics, Orlando, March 17-19, 1999.
International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Atlanta, May 26-29, 1999.
2000
Regional Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Mathematical Society, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 2000. Invited speaker and organizer of special session.
Second International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications, Kananaskis, Canada, May 2000. Invited speaker and session chairman.
2001
Minisymposium on Computational Mathematics, Thirtieth Spring Conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, Borovets, April 8-11, 2001. Invited Speaker.
Second International Conference on Acoustics, Noise and Vibration August 6-8, 2001 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. Key lecturer.
2004
Fourth World Congress on Nonlinear Analysis, Orlando, Florida, June 30 -July 07, 2004. Invited speaker and session organizer.
International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Science, Natchotches, October 06-08, 2004.
2005
Fourth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory. Athens, GA, April 11-14 , 2005
5th International Conference on "Large-Scale Scientific Computations'", June 6-10, 2005, Sozopol, Bulgaria.
31st Conference "Applications of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics", June 5-10, 2005, Sozopol, Bulgaria.
International Conference "FPU+50. Nonlinear wave 50 years after Fermi, Pasta and Ulam", Rouen, France, 21-15 June, 2005.
2006
Meeting of Louisiana Academy of Sciences, Lafayette, March 10, 2006
International Conference on Hybrid Systems and Applications, Lafayette, Louisiana, 22-26 May 2006. Organized special session "Discrete out of Continuous: Coherent Structures and Solitons".
IMACS8 on Iterative Methods, Texas A & M University, November 17, 2006
2007
Fifth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory. Athens, GA, April 16-19 , 2007, (invited speaker and session organizer).
33rd Conference Applications of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics, June 8-14, 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (invited speaker, special session organizer, member of the Program Committee).
4th Advanced Research Workshop "Gravity, Astrophysics, and Strings @ the Black Sea" GAS'07, 10-16 June 2007, Kiten, Bulgaria (invited speaker).
74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS, November 8-10, 2007. Nashville, Tennessee, Invited talk.
2008
7th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA, May 18 - 21, 2008, Speaker and special session organizer.
34rd Conference Applications of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics (AMEE'08), June 6 - 12, 2008 Sozopol, Bulgaria. Plenary speaker and special session organizer.
WCNA-2008, Orlando, July 2-9, 2008. Key speaker and special session organizer.
75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS October 30-November 1, 2008. Invited talk.
2009
Sizth International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory. Athens, GA, March 23-26, 2009, Invited talk and special session organizer.
8th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, June 1-4, 2009. Invited speaker.
4th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Chapter of SIAM, Sofia, December 21-22, 2009. Plenary lecturer.
2010
12th International Conference "Geometry, Integrability and Quantization", Varna, Bulgaria, June 4-9, 2010. Invited lecturer.
2nd Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 21-26, 2010. Plenary lecturer and co-organizer of the conference.
7th Symposium in Honour of Jean-Pierre Vigier, Imperial College, London, July 12-14, 2010. Plenary lecturer
SES10 Meeting of The American Physical Society, October 20th - 23rd, 2010, Baton Rouge, LA
Perambulation of Continuum Mechanics. Meeting in Celebration of the Sixtieth Birthday of K. R. Rajagopal, Nov. 11-13, 2010.
2011
7th IMACS'11 International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena, Athens, Georgia, USA, 3-7 April 2011. Invited talk.
3rd Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, June 20-25, 2011. Invited lecturer (via telebridge) and co-organizer of the conference.

List of recent invited seminars

Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, January 1978.
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, January 1978.
Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sci ences, Novosibirsk, Russia, March 1984.
Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, January 1986.
Computer Center of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, 1989.
Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1989.
Dept. of Physics, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, November 1990.
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique des Liquides, University Paris VI, January 1991.
Laboratoire D'Aerothrmique, CNRS, Meudon, France, February 1991.
Institute of Statistical Theory of Turbulence, University of Marseille, May 1991.
Centre for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Service de Chimie Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, September 1992.
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Universidad Complutense, March 1993.
Service de Chimie Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, March 1993.
Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, March 1993.
Dept. of Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Caen, March 1993.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Oslo, June 1993.
Seminar on Fluid Mechanics, School of Aeronautical Engineering, Madrid Polytechnics, June 1993.
Institute of Oceanography, Sidney, Canada, August 1993.
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, September 1993.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Reading, Oct. 1993.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Reading, January and February 1994.
UMIST, Dept. Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester, February 1994.
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, University of Surrey, UK, February 1994.
Dept. of Appl. Math. and Statistics, University of Sheffield, UK, February 1994.
DAMTP, University of Cambridge, February 1994.
Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands, Session 43 of the Seminar on fluid dynamics, transport phenomena and condensed matter physics, November 1994.
Dept. de Mécanique Fondamentale, Université de Sciences et Technologies de Lille, October 1995.
UMIST, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester, October 1995.
UMIST, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester, October 1996.
Dept. of Technomathematics, University of Bremen, Germany, December 1996.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Cork, Ireland, March 1997.
Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University, February 1998.
Dept. of Computer Science and Scientific Computations, Stanford University, March 1998.
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, April 1998.
Sandia National Laboratiry, Albuqurque, April 1998.
Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, College Station, May 1998.
Depatment of Mathematics, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, June 1998.
Laboratoire de Mécanique, Universite de Caen, France, January 2000.
Laboratoire de Modelisation en Mecanique, Université Paris VI, France, January 2000.
Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Sofia, April 12, 2001.
Numerical Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, February 11, 2002.
Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics, Chapman University, February 24, 2002.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Clarkson University, March, 28, 2002.
Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, October 11, 2002.
Department of Physics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, October, 2003.
Navy Research Lab, Stennis Research Center, October 2004.
Department of Physics , University of New Orleans, October 2004.
Department of Physics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March, 2005.
Navy Research Lab, Stennis Research Center, August 2005.
Universit\'e de Caen, France, 27 June 2005
Dept. of Mathematics, Middle Tennessee State University, November 2005.
Dept. of Applied math and Physics, Delaware State University, April 2006.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Sheffield, UK, April 2006.
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, April 2006.
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UMIST, UK, April 2006.
Naval Research Lab, Stennis, Mississipi, July 14th, 2006.
Seminar on Numerical Analysis, Dept. of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, October 11th, 2006.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Cyprus, December 2006.
Department of Physics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, January, 2007.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, April, 2007.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Cyprus, May 2007.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Sheffield, UK, July 2007.
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2007.
Dept. of Mathematics, Tulane University, April 2008.
Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, October 2008.
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, November 2008
Dept. Chemistry and Physics, Southeastern Louisina Univeristy, Hammond, February 2009.
Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, August 13, 2009
Applied Analysis Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, Louisiana State Univeristy Baton Rouge, October 2009
Seminar of Faculty of Mathematics, University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarskii," December 14, 2009, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Seminar of Department of Numerical Modeling, Institute of Mat.hematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sicneces, December 15, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Seminar of Department of Applied Physics, Technical University of Sofia, December 15, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Seminar of the Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, December 17, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Seminar of the Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, December 17, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Seminar of Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, December 18, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Seminar of the Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, July 03, 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria.
LONI/LASiGMA Seminar Series University of Louisiana at Lafayette, October 07, 2010
Seminar of Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UL Lafayette, March 21, 2011

List of recent (realized) invitations for conducting joint research
(apart from the long term visitorships)

Dept. of Mathematics, Higher Institute of Mining, Ostrava, Tchechoslovakia, 2 weeks, May 1989.
Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 2 weeks, October 1989.
Institute of Meteorology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 2 weeks, December 1989.
Dept. of Physics, UNED, Madrid, 1 month, November 1990.
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada, 1 month, August 1993.
Dept. of Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Caen, France, 2 months, May and June 1994.
Centre for Nonliear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique, 2 weeks, August 1996.
Centre for Nonliear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique, 2 weeks, May 1997.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, one week, June 2000.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa BArbara, 2 months, June and July, 2004
Laboratoire de Modelisacion en Mécanique, Université Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie, 1 week, June 2005.
Senior ASEE Summer Faculty with the Naval Research Lab, Stennis, Mississippi, 10 weeks, June-August 2006.
University of Cyprus December 2006 (1 week); May 2007 (une week)
Department of Mathematics, The University of Sheffield, 2 weeks, June 2007.
Distinguished ASEE Summer Faculty with the Naval Research Lab, Stennis, Mississippi, 10 weeks, June-August 2009.