- Introduction to PDEs (Reading)
Instructor: Rukmini Dey
Venue: S N Bose Meeting Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Meeting Time: Monday and Friday: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
First Class: Monday, 15th January 2018
Course contents: First 5 chapters of Ian Sneddon's book: Elements of PDEs.
Syllabus: Ordinary Differential Equations in more than 2 variables; Partial Differential Equations of the first order; Partial Differential Equations of the Second Order; Laplace Equation; Wave Equation. If time permits we will go through some chapters of "Fourier Series" by Georgi P. Tolstov.
- Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Reading)
Instructor: Vishal Vasan
Venue: ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Meeting Time: Friday: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
First Class: Friday, 19th January 2018
Course contents: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by S Strogatz. Selected reading from Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems by L Perko and other suitable texts.
Syllabus: The course will cover the entire content of Strogatz' book supplemented with more detailed mathematical treatments of selected theorems from other sources.