This will be a course page for the Autumn 2024 Taught Centre Course
This course will be live streamed on Mondays and Wednesdays at 3pm on Twitch via https://www.twitch.tv/ptrinh
The videos can be found either on Twitch or on a separate YouTube playlist access here. Note that it can take time for videos to be uploaded on YouTube but feel free to email me if there's one you need right away.
There are many interesting situations where exponentially-small phenomena, beyond-all-orders of regular perturbative expansions, dictate crucially important features of a physical problem. For example, such exponential asymptotics may govern the appearance of surface ripples in water. Or they may dictate the non-existence of solutions to a differential equation. This course will introduce you to a fascinating array of such problems arising in the physical sciences. It will be accessible to a wide range of students from different mathematical backgrounds; familiarity with asymptotic analysis is useful but not strictly necessary.
All meetings are online and commence 7 October and run for 8 weeks.
Meeting times:
Please feel free to email me at p.trinh@bath.ac.uk for any enquiries.
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