Differential Equations

Course Schedule and Assignments

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Week One
  • Class 1 Tuesday, January 7
    • Introduction to the course. Qualitative introduction to differential equations
  • Class 2 Wednesday, January 8
    • Another qualitative analysis example
    • Intro to python. Numerical operations, importing modules, assignment operator, lists, matplotlib.
  • Class 3 Friday, January 10
    • Read chapters 1 and 2 of Booth, et al.
    • More differential equations introduction
Week Two
  • Class 4 Tuesday, January 14
    • Euler's method
  • Class 5 Wednesday, January 15
    • Read Chapters 3 and 4 from Booth, et al.
  • Class 6 Friday, January 17
  • Assignment One Due Friday, January 17.
Week Three
  • Class 7 Tuesday, January 21
    • Systems of ODEs. Runge-Kutta methods and adaptive step size. odeint.
  • Class 8 Wednesday, January 22
    • odeint, programming practice.
  • Class 9 Friday, January 24
    • Rescaling the SIR model, R0, coding a time-dependent parameter.
Week Four
  • Class 10 Tuesday, January 28
  • Class 11 Wednesday, January 29
  • Class 12 Friday, January 31
  • Homework Two Due Friday, January 31
Week Five
  • Class 13 Tuesday, February 4
  • Class 14 Wednesday, February 5
  • Class 15 Friday, February 7
  • Week Five Homework Due Friday, February 7
Week Six
  • Class 16 Tuesday, February 11
  • Class 17 Wednesday, February 12
  • Class 18 Friday, February 14
  • Week Six Homework Due Friday, February 14
Week Seven
  • Class 19 Tuesday, February 18
  • Class 20 Wednesday, February 19
  • Class 21 Friday, February 21
  • Week Seven Homework Due Friday, February 21
Week Eight
  • Class 22 Tuesday, February 25
  • Class 23 Wednesday, February 26
  • Class 24 Friday, February 28
  • Week Eight Homework Due Friday, February 28
Week Nine
  • Class 25 Tuesday, March 3
  • Class 26 Wednesday, March 4
  • Class 27 Friday, March 6
  • Week Nine Homework Due Friday, March 6
Week Ten
  • Class 28 Tuesday, March 10
  • Class 29 Wednesday, March 11
  • Class 30 Friday, March 13
  • Week Ten Homework Due Friday, March 13
Cover Sheet for Homework