Course Schedule 

                           

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Date   Day  Chapter

Topics

Jan   9 T 1 Introduction
  11 R 1 1D Discrete Maps - Fixed Points, Cobwebs, Stability
  15 M   Holiday
  16 T 1 Periodic Orbits/Bifurcations
  18 R 1 Itineraries/MATLAB-Python
  23 T 2 2D discrete Maps/Stability
  25 R 2 Linear Maps
  30 T 2 Eigenvalue Problems/Diagonlization
Feb   1 R 2 Nonlinear Maps/Matrix Times Circle
    6 T 3 Lyapunov Exponents
    8 R 3 Symbolic Dynamics/Conjugacy
  13 T 3 Chaos in Logistic Map
  15 R   Exam I (Ch 1-3)
  20 T 4 Fractals/Mandelbrot and Julia Sets
  22 R 4 Cantor Set/Iterated Function Systems
  27 T 4 Fractal Dimensions
Mar   1 R 5 2D Maps/Chaos

       Spring Vacation - Mar 3-11

  13 T 5 Horseshoe Map
  15 R 13 Analysis of Data/Embedding
  20 T 7 1D ODEs and Bifurcations
22 R 7 2D Linear Systems of ODEs
  27 T 7 Nonlinear Systems of ODEs
  29 R   Holiday
  30 F   Holiday
Apr   3 T 7 Applications/Potential Fields
    5 R   Exam II (4-7)
  10 R 8 Periodic Orbits and Limit Sets
 

12

T 9 Chaos in ODEs
  17 T 10 Stable Manifold Theorem
  19 R 11 Bifurcations
  24 T 12 Cascades in Bifurcations
May   3 R   Presentations, 3:00-6:00 PM

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E-Mail: Dr. Russell Herman Last Updated: April 13, 2018