SPECIAL TOPICS: INTRO TO DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (3 credits)
Spring 2007

• Office : Padelford C-328
• Office Phone : (206) 685-1307
• E-mail : solomyak at math dot washington dot edu
• Office Hours : Thursdays 1:30-3:30 in C-328, or by appointment

Course Information

• Lecture : MWF 1:30-2:20, LOW 201
• Homeworks (60% of overall grade) Weekly homework will be assigned due on Fridays at the beginning of the class.
• Take-home test (40% of overall grade): given on M, May 21, due on W, May 30.
• Figure for #5
• Practice problems

• Syllabus

Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 (due Fri, March 30)

• Homework 2 (due Fri, April 6)

• Homework 3 (due Fri, April 13)

• Homework 4 (due Fri, April 20)

• Homework 5 (due Fri, April 27)

• Homework 6 (due Fri, May 4)

• Homework 7 (due Mon, May 14)

• Homework 8 (due Mon, May 21)

• Homework 9 (optional, due Fri, June 1)

Handouts

• Vocabulary: sets and functions

• Using Mathematica to view iteration

• Neutral fixed points

• Conjugacy

• Using Mathematica to draw the orbit diagram

• Topological exactness

• IFS (without figures) and pages 3-5 with figures