Math 220: Partial Differential Equations

World Wide Web: http://math.stanford.edu:/~ryzhik
TTh 9:30AM - 10:45PM Room 380C. There will be no class on September 29.

Instructor: Lenya Ryzhik

  • Office: 380-382U
  • Office Hours: Temporarily T 2:30-4:00PM and by appointment.
  • Office Phone: 650-721-2113
  • e-mail: ryzhik@math.stanford.edu

    • Course Assistant: Carlos Sing-Long

  • Office: ICME open space in Huang Building in the basement
  • Office Hours: MW 4-6 and by appointment
  • e-mail: casinglo"at"stanford.edu.

    • Course Structure:

  • Textbooks: L.C. Evans "Partial Differential equations", and Y. Pinchover and J. Rubinstein "An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations"
  • Lecture notes, to be more or less continuously updated
  • There will be one midterm, and a final. Homeworks will be due on some Thursdays.

    • Homeworks:

    Homework 1 (Due Thursday October 6)

  • Read the notes, Evans 2.1-2.2, and Pinchover-Rubinstein 2.1-2.4 for the method characteristics (but not in every detail, and only what is relevant for linear equations, we will come back to this later in the class), 7.1-7.2 for general education, and study 7.3-7.4. Section 7.5 has Green's identities, as does Appendix C.2 of Evans.
  • Homework 1 problems
  • Homework 1 solutions

  • Homework 2 problems (due October 18)
  • Homework 2 solutions
  • Homework 3 problems (due October 25)
  • Homework 3 solutions
  • Homework 4 problems (due November 10)
  • Homework 4 solutions
  • Homework 5 problems (due November 31)
  • Homework 5 solutions
  • Homework 6 problems (due December 8)
  • Homework 6 solutions
  • The final exam