| Math 656 |
| Partial Differential Equation II |
Tentative Course Plan
Week 1 09-13 January
01/10 ---Important inequalities & weak derivatives
01/12 --- Holder spaces & Sobolev spaces
Week 2 16-20 January
01/17 --- Approximations and Extensions
01/19 --- Traces & Morrey's inequalities
Week 3 23-27 January
01/24 ---Compactness --- Rellich-Kondrachor
01/26 -- Fourier Transform Methods & Poincare's inequality
Week 4 30 January -03 February
01/31 ---The space H^{-1} & Spaces involving time
02/02--- Second order elliptic equations & Lax-Milgram theorem
Week 5 06-10
February
02/07 --- Regularity, Maximum principle,
Eigenvalues & Eigen functions
02/09 --- Linear Parabolic equations--Road map for wellposedness
02/09 --- Week 6 13--17 February
02/14 --- Energy estimates, Regularity & Maximum principle
02/16 --- Linear Hyerpbolic equation & Finite propagation speed
Week 7 20--24 February
02/21 --- Symmetric Hyperbolic system--Vanishing Viscosity vs. Finite Difference
02/23 --- Midterm
Week 8 27 February -- 03 March (the first half
semester ends on March 03)
02/28 --- The Calculus of Variations & Euler-Lagrangian equation
03/02 --- Existence of minimizers
Week 9 06-10 March (second half semester begins)
03/07 ---Convexity and weakly lower semi-continuity
03/09 --- Weak solutions of Euler-Lagrange equation
*** Spring Break 13-17 March, classes recessed ***
Week 10 20--24 March
03/21 --- Regularity
03/23 --- Constrained minimization
Week 11 27-31 March
03/28 --- Harmonic map and incompressibility
03/30 --- Critical points and Mountain pass theorem
Week 12 03-- 07 April
04/04--- Fixed point methods
04/06 ---Non-existence--blow up
Week 13 10--14 April
04/11 --- Hamilton-Jacobi equations
04/13 --- Viscosity
Week 14 17--21 April
04/18 --- Uniqueness
04/20 --- System of Conservation laws
Week 15 24
-- 28 April
04/25 --- Traveling solutions
04/27 --- Entropy
Final Week 01-- 05 May TBA.