Department of Mathematics
Fall 2001
APMA 900 - Advanced Mathematical Methods
- Lectures:
- MW 3:30-5:30pm
- E-Mail:
- send to class e-mail
Text: Introduction to Perturbation Methods, M.H. Holmes (suggested)
12 December
photos courtesy of Jim Verner
 fluid dynamics
 ben ong
 tatiana marquez lago
 colin macdonald
 david alexander
 jeff gilmore
 week 0: organizational stuff
 week 1: perturbations & asymptotics
 week 2: integral asymptotics
 week 3: fourier integrals & stationary phase
 week 4: bessel functions & steepest descent
 week 5: introduction to perturbation theory
 week 6: ODE perturbation theory I
 week 7: ODE perturbation theory II
 week 8: Sturm-Liouville theory I
 week 9: Sturm-Liouville theory II
 week 10: boundary-layer theory I
 week 11: boundary-layer theory II
 week 12: relaxation oscillation
 week 13: a turning point problem