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 greg.chini@unh.edu,​ Kingsbury Hall W113 greg.chini@unh.edu,​ Kingsbury Hall W113
  
-**abstract** This course examines the theory of bifurcations,​ pattern ​+**abstract:** This course examines the theory of bifurcations,​ pattern ​
 formation, and spatiotemporal chaos in systems governed ​ formation, and spatiotemporal chaos in systems governed ​
 by time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations. ​ by time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations. ​
-The course begins ​with comparatively well-developed theories ​+We begin with comparatively well-developed theories ​
 and simple model systems (e.g. 1-dimensional nonlinear PDEs)  and simple model systems (e.g. 1-dimensional nonlinear PDEs) 
 and progresses by stages of increasing complexity to the  and progresses by stages of increasing complexity to the 
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 patterns in turbulent shear flows. ​ patterns in turbulent shear flows. ​
  
-[[gibson:​teaching:​spring-2012:​iam950:​syllabus | Detailed syllabus]], +====== News ====== 
 + 
 +**3 Feb 2012:** {{:​gibson:​teaching:​spring-2012:​ks_cnab2.m}} Matlab source code for time-integration of Kuramoto-Sivashinksy eqn. 
 + 
 +**26 Jan 2012:** Please read the Introduction of Cross and Greenside for  
 +Monday 30 Jan. I have placed a few xeroxed copies place on the bookshelf outside my  
 +Kingsbury N309E. Please borrow for a few hours or overnight and return a.s.a.p.  
 +so that others have a chance to read. But also please order and purchase the book 
 +for use throughout the semester. 
 + 
 +====== Homework ====== 
 + 
 +^ # ^ due ^ notes ^ 
 +| [[:​gibson:​teaching:​spring-2012:​iam95:​HW1]] |  |  | 
 + 
 + 
 +====== General info ====== 
 +**Syllabus:​**[[gibson:​teaching:​spring-2012:​iam950:​syllabus | detailed & updated ​]] {{:​gibson:​teaching:​spring-2012:​iam950syllabus.pdf|course announcement (PDF)}} 
 + 
 +**Primary text:** //Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium  
 +Systems//, Michael Cross and Henry Greenside, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 
 + 
 +**Supplementary texts:** 
 +  * //​Dissipative Structure & Weak Turbulence//,​ Paul Manneville, Academic Press, 1990. 
 +  * //​Instabilities,​ Chaos, and Turbulence//,​ Paul Manneville, Imperial College Press, 2010. 
 +  * //Pattern Formation: An Introduction to Methods//, Rebecca Hoyle, Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics,​ 2006. 
 +  * //Stability and Transition in Shear Flows//, Peter Schmid and Dan Henningson, Springer-Verlag,​ 2000. 
 +  * //​Turbulence,​ Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems, and Symmetry//, Philip Holmes, John Lumley, and Gal Berkooz, Cambridge University Press, 1996 
 +  * [[http://​www.chaosbook.org |Chaos: Classical and Quantum]], Predrag Cvitanovi\'​c et. al, www.chaosbook.org,​ 2011. 
 +  * //Linear and Nonlinear Waves//, Gerald Whitham, Wiley \& Sons1973 
 + 
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