Ordinary Differential Equations 2920
Fall 2008
Tue/Th 4-5:15 PM
THACKERAY 524
Bard Ermentrout
Textbook
Theory of ODES by Chris Grant
Grading
Schedule
- Aug 25-37: ODEs,Existence,Uniqueness
- Sep 2-4: Picard Lindelof,Intervals of existence,Dependence on parameters
- Sep 9-11: Linear systems
- Sep 16-18 sections 2.4-2.5 and Fulmers method
- Sept 23 2.6-2.7
- Sept 30 -Oct 2: 2.8-2.10
- Oct 7-9: 2.10,2.11 3.1
- Homework 5 due Oct 16
No class Oct 23,Oct 30
Oct 14-16:
- Oct 9-30: Topological dynamics (Chapt 3)
- Nov 11-13: Second order BVPs /Sturm oscillation theorem
- Nov 18-20,25: Sturm-Liouville theory/Series