Math 256A Homepage, Spring 2011-2012

Partial Differential Equations

Instructor: András Vasy

Office: 383M

Phone: 723-2226

E-mail: andras "at" math.stanford.edu

Tentative office hours: M 2-3:30, F 1-2:30. Exception: No office hour on Friday, April 13; instead extra office hour Monday, April 16, 3:30-5. No office hour on Friday, May 4; instead extra office hour Monday, May 7, 3:30-5.

Class location: TTh 9:30-10:45am, Room Gates100.

No class on Thursday, April 12 and Thursday, May 3. Makeup classes: Friday, April 20, 9-10:15am and Friday, April 27, 9:30-10:45am in 380-383N.

Textbook: Leon Simon's lecture notes. Available "lecture by lecture" here:

Each of these "lectures" amounts to roughly two lectures for our course when done in detail. However, I will try to do some topics in less detail to get through as much of the 16 lectures as possible; certainly getting through the first 11 "lectures" is a goal.

This is an advanced graduate PDE class, but no PDE background is required. However, a thorough knowledge of functional analysis as in 205A-B is a must. We rely on Leon Simon's lecture notes. This course should be appropriate for first year graduate students.

Grading policy: There are homeworks which must be handed in, but due to unavailability of graders, will not be graded carefully.

The homework will be due either in class or by 9pm in the instructor's mailbox on the designated day. You are allowed to discuss the homework with others in the class, but you must write up your homework solution by yourself. Thus, you should understand the solution, and be able to reproduce it yourself.

Problem Sets (Problem numbers are from the lecture notes):