Monday, 27 February 2012

New Paper on the Chaotic Water Wheel

I didn't have time to look before lecture this morning, but a new paper was posted on the arXiv today about the chaotic waterwheel. It describes a new experimental implementation of it. This just goes to show you that we're discussing active research in this course!

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Solution Sheet 2 was posted last week

I forgot to announce it here, but I posted solution sheet 2 last week.

Thursday, 2 February 2012

Solution Sheet 1 Posted

I have posted solution sheet 1.

Update (2/04/12): I have posted an updated version of the solutions with some small typos corrected. Note, for example, that the Figure 6 caption is now present (which should make things clearer when it comes to the trapping region --- depicted in Figure 7 --- for that problem).

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Matlab Class

The Matlab Class will be Tuesday, Week 4, 5 - 6:30 pm in L1 in the MI. Bring a laptop with Matlab installed.

Update (2/3/12)> Download the file called "zygalakis.zip" from the course materials website. This is code collected (and, in some cases, also written) by Kostas Zygalakis, who was a class tutor for Math B8b when I have taught it in the past.

Sunday, 11 December 2011

Welcome to the HT 2012 version of Nonlinear Systems

The lectures for this course are Mondays at 4pm and Thursdays at 11am in room L1.

I have now posted the typed lecture notes and homework sheets for HT 2012. I corrected one typo in the 2nd document of the lecture notes, but otherwise everything is the same as last year.

There will be five sets of classes:

I will teach [class 1] one set of classes in odd weeks (weeks 3,5,7) Friday 2:00 - 3:30 pm in DHSR3. This class will also meet in week 1 of TT, but the time and place cannot be specified until just before TT starts. The TA for this class will be Sofia Piltz.

Wonjung Lee will teach [class 2] a set of classes in even weeks (2,4,6,8) Friday 2:00 - 3:30 pm in DHSR3. The TA for that class will be Andrey Melnik.

Ruth Baker will teach two sets of classes. One of them [class 3] will be DHSR3, Weeks 3,5,7,8, Mondays, 9:30 - 11 am. The other [class 4] will be DHSR3, Weeks 3,5,7,8, Fridays, 3:30 - 5 pm. The TA for class 3 is Marta Sarzynska and the TA for class 4 is Sofia Piltz.

Margarita Schlackow will teach [class 5] the final set of classes. It will meet in even weeks (2,4,6,8) Friday 10:00 - 11:30 am in DHSR2. The TA will be Marta Sarzynska.


Friday classes in week N will have homework due at 10:00 am on Wednesday of week N. The Monday class in week N will have homework due at 10:00 am on Friday of week N - 1. Boxes will magically appear in the basement of the Mathematical Institute.

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Solution Sheet 4 posted

Solution sheet 4 has now been posted.

Friday, 4 March 2011

Consultation Sessions

The following consultation sessions have been scheduled for Trinity Term:


Monday, week 2, 10 am - noon: L3 [Me; covers 2010 mock exam]

Wednesday, week 2, 11 am - noon: DHSR1 [Me; drop in]

Monday, week 3, 10 am - noon: L3 [Me; covers 2010 exam]


Chong Luo will be holding consultation sessions at 13:00-14:00 for the dates May 3, 17, 31 (i.e., Tuesday of weeks 1,3, and 5), and also June 1, 8 (i.e., Wednesday of weeks 5 and 6). These sessions will all take place in DHSR2.

Kostas Zygalakis will be holding consultation sessions on Mondays from 3 - 5 pm in weeks 4 and 5 and on Wednesday from 4 - 5 pm in week 4. These sessions will all take place in DHSR3.