Familiarity with nonlinear ordinary differential equations (for example, at the level of the Level 2 and 3 modules `Dynamical Systems' and `Applied Dynamical Systems') will be an advantage, though the first part of the course will provide a brief review of the necessary introductory material. NB: the name of the Level 2 course has now changed to `Nonlinear Differential Equations'. There is a new Level 3 course, `Dynamical Systems', which may be taken at the same time as this course.
The course is aimed at those interested in nonlinear dynamics and dynamical systems. It is also open to new and continuing graduate students in the mathematics and physics departments.
There will be 27 lectures and 6 examples classes. The assessment will be based on a 2 hour written examination (80%) and course work/computational project (20%).
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