COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT.

Fall 2015. MATH5333. Section 001. (CRN:28024)

Partial Differential Equations II

Instructor: Luan Thach Hoang
Office: MA 208. Phone: (806) 834-3060. Fax: (806) 742-1112
Email address: luan.hoang@ttu.edu
Homepage: http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lhoang/
Office hours: TBA

Classroom and Time: MA 111, TR 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm.

Course website: http://www.math.ttu.edu/~lhoang/2015Fall-M5333/

Text: Partial Differential Equations, 2nd edition, by Lawrence C. Evans, published by American Mathematical Society.

Course Description: An introduction to modern theory of partial differential equations (PDE).

• Basic theories of Sobolev spaces which are essential to understanding PDEs.
• Second-order elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations: Weak solutions, Existence, Regularity.
• Various techniques are used to analyze these equations and properties of their solutions.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 5: Sobolev Spaces
• Chapter 6: Second-Order Elliptic Equations
• Chapter 7: Linear Evolution Equations
• Chapter 8: Calculus of Variations

Content: Sobolev spaces: weak derivatives, basic inequalities and embedding theorems. Second order elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations: weak solutions, existence, uniqueness and regularity. Calculus of variations: existence and regularity of minimizers. Many more on properties of the solutions.