Instructor:

Gene Wayne
Math Department
111 Cummington Street
Room 242
Phone: 353-1495
e-mail: cew@math.bu.edu

Office Hours:

Monday: 2:30-3:30 pm
Wednesday: 10:00-11:00 am
Friday: 10:00-11:00 am

I encourage you to come to my office hours if you have any questions about the course. If you want to speak with me, but are unable to come to see me at any of my regular office hours, please let me know and we can schedule a mutually convenient time.

Text Book:

Elementary Applied Partial Differential Equations, by R. Haberman

We'll begin the semester by discussing numerical techniques for solving PDE's, following Chapter 6 of the text. From there we will move onto a discussion of Fourier and Laplace transforms as covered in Chapters 10 and 13. After that I want to at least briefly discuss the use of wavelets - they may be viewed in some ways as an alternative to Fourier transform methods. After that I will discuss Green's function methods (Chapter 11), before finishing the semester with a discussion of nonlinear PDE's with a focus on dispersive waves. This material will be drawn mostly from Chapter 14 of the textbook.

Grading: There will two in-class midterm exams, on March 1, and April 19. There will be no final exam. Instead, I will expect each of you to prepare a paper, to be presented at the end of the class, on some topic related to the course. In addition to the examinations above, I will assign homework due about every 10 days. This homework will be graded. Your final grade will be determined by the following procedure:

Homework: 40 %
Each Midterm: 20  %
Final Paper: 20 %