Meeting times: Tuesdays 8-10am in "Déli Tömb" 3-306 for lecture
+ recitation/office hours 10am-Noon in the same room
Note however, that this arrangement may change within the 8am-Noon time-slot, to be specified at the first meeting, Feb 13th. Also, note that 8am is actually 8:15am.
Instructor: Dr. Péter SIMON
Prerequisites: Differential equations
A short description of the course:
Topological equivalence, classification of linear systems.
Poincaré normal forms, classification of nonlinear systems.
Stable, unstable, centre manifolds theorems, Hartman - Grobman theorem.
Periodic solutions and their stability. Index of two-dimensional vector fields,
behaviour of trajectories at infinity. Applications to models in biology and chemistry.
Hamiltonian systems. Chaos in the Lorenz equation.
Textbook: Peter L Simon, Dynamical systems and differential equations, lecture notes.
Further reading:
L. Perko, Differential Equations and Dynamical systems, Springer