550.391 Dynamical Systems

Autumn 2011

Instructor: Greg Eyink

Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Phone: (410) 516-7201

Office: Whitehead 202-D

Office Hours: Mon, Wed - 12:30-1:20pm

Teaching Assistant: Yikang Shi

Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Phone: (410) 516-8515

Office: Whitehead 201A

Office Hours: Wed, Thu 5-6pm

Watch this space for important announcements, course information, and supplemental materials.
The guidelines for the course termpaper are posted here .
A interesting paper on cusp catastrophes in stock market crashes is posted here here .
A sample midterm from a previous year is posted here and an answer key here .
A second sample is here with its key here . Lastly, there is a third sample here (but no key).
An answer key to our midterm is posted here .
The original 1963 paper of Lorenz is available here . It may be worth taking a look at this classic!

lorenz.m - Lorenz model vector field for use in matlab ODE integrators, like ode45
ode45demo.m - a demonstration code to illustrate the use of ode45 in plotting phase portraits

pplane8.m is an interactive tool run in Matlab for studying planar autonomous
systems of differential equations.

Chaos and Fractals A nice webpage by a physics grad student at JHU on chaos and fractals in solutions of ODE's