Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30-10:45am; BRB 121
Office Hours (on Zoom) : W 10-11a, Th 3-5p or by appointment. Zoom links for office hours will be posted on the Blackboard course page
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Course Information
Textbook:
There will be no textbook for this course. References will be provided as needed. Also see the syllabus for additional references which may be useful.Course Topics
Broadly, this course will focus on the mathematics of pattern formation and coherent structures. It will investigate how tools from dynamical systems and functional analysis can be used to rigorously characterize the formation, stability, and dynamics of such regular spatial structures in prototypical and historically important PDE models. Examples include traveling fronts, localized pulses, periodic lattices, and spiral waves, and arise in diverse areas of application, such as solitons and convective rolls in fluids, stripes and spots on animal coats and vegetation patches, waves in cardiac dynamics, and phase separation in bi-metallic alloys.Lectures
Access to the Zoom codes/links for upcoming lectures, as well as recordings of lectures will be posted on the course Blackboard page, accessible at learn.bu.edu . See the syllabus for more information regarding COVID-19 policies related to our course and more detail on Learn From Anywhere information.Grades
All students enrolled in the course are required to give at least two lectures (i.e. one week) on topics related to the course. Your grade will be based on these lectures. See the syllabus for more information. Here are important dates to follow:Last Modified The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
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