Math 527 B1: Intermediate PDE (Fall 2011)

Course Calendar




Instructor / Office / Phone #
Xinwei Yu / 527 CAB / (780)4925731
Email / Webpage
xinwei.yu@gmail.com / http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~xinweiyu
Location / Time / Office Hours
CAB 457 / WF 3pm - 4:20pm / W 9:30am - 11:30am; F 9:30am - 10:30am or by appointment


Course Information
Important dates.
  • Homeworks: Sep. 23, Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Nov. 4, Nov. 18 (in class). (Temporary)
  • Midterms: Sept. 30, Oct. 28, Nov. 25 (in class, 1h each) (Temporary)
  • Final: Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011; 2pm-4pm; CAB 457.
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Course Material

Lecture #
Notes and Supplemental Materials
1 (Sept. 7)
Lecture 1: Introduction ; Exercises and Problems
2 (Sept. 9)
Lecture 2: Conservation Laws I; Exercises and Problems
3 (Sept. 14)
Lecture 3: Conservation Laws II; Exercises and Problems
4 (Sept. 16)
Lecture 4: Conservation Laws III; Exercises and Problems
5 (Sept. 21)
Lecture 5: Fully Nonlinear 1st Order Equations; Exercises and Problems
6 (Sept. 23)
Lecture 6: Hopf-Lax Formula; Exercises and Problems
7 (Sept. 28)
Lecture 7: H-J Equation Weak Solution; Exercises and Problems
8 (Sept. 30)
Midterm 1 (Lec1-Lec6)
9 (Oct. 5)
Lecture 9: Poisson Equations: Explicit Formulas; Exercises and Problems
10 (Oct. 12)
Lecture 10: Harmonic Functions; Exercises and Problems
11 (Oct. 14)
Lecture 11: Regularity for Poisson Equation; Exercises and Problems
12 (Oct. 19)
Lecture 12: Weak Solution; Exercises and Problems
13 (Oct. 21)
Lecture 13: Sobolev Spaces; Exercises and Problems
14 (Oct. 26)
Lecture 14: Poisson Equation in Sobolev Spaces; Exercises and Problems
15 (Nov. 4)
Lecture 15: Heat Equations: Explicit Formulas; Exercises and Problems
16 (Nov. 9)
Lecture 16: Heat Equations: Maximum Principles; Exercises and Problems
17 (Nov. 18)
Lecture 17: Asymptotic Behavior and Energy Method; Exercises and Problems
18 (Nov. 23)
Lecture 18: Wave Equations: Explicit Formulas; Exercises and Problems
19 (Nov. 25)
Lecture 19: Wave Equations: Uniqueness and Asymptotics; Exercises and Problems
20 (Dec. 2)
Lecture 20: Wave Equations: Asymptotics (cont.)