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Course Description:

This is an introductory ungraduate course in Partial Differential Equations. Prerequisites for the course are the basic calculus 50 sequence with linear algebra and differential equations (math 53).

Instructor:


Name Office Phone Office Hours email
George Papanicolaou 383V 723-2081 Tuesday and Thursday 3:00pm-4:30pm, or by appointment. Please email me before coming. papanico@math.stanford.edu

TA:


Name Office Phone Office Hours email
David Lecomte 380H No phone Tuesday: 7-10pm and Wednesday: 4-7pm. David. Lecomte@crans.org

Textbook

The textbook for the course is "Partial Differential Equations An Introduction ", by Walter A. Strauss (Wiley 1992) and it is in the bookstore.

We will follow the textbook rather closely, covering the first five chapters at the rate of roughly one section per class period.

Grading Policy

There will be homeworks assigned every Thursday, collected one week later, graded and returned one week after that. Homeworks will be 20% of the grade. There will be a midterm, in class, on Tuesday February 4. It will count for 30%. The final will be, according to the Winter Quarter Time Schedule, on Wednesday March 19, 12:15-3:15pm (NOTE THE TIME) (in 380F), and will count for 50%. The grader is Ian Fernandes , ian80@Stanford.EDU.