This will be a course page for the Autumn 2024 Taught Centre Course
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.
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Please feel free to email me at p.trinh@bath.ac.uk for any enquiries.