B.Sc. 1980 University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. 1986 Cornell University
Office hours: Mon/Fri 11-12, Wed 3-4. Or you can
make an
appointment by email.
Math 2410 Outlines
There is a weekly quiz on Monday, starting 1/26.
The first exam was on 3/4
(Wed). Refer to the Outline, the exam syllabus will be up to and
including section 2.4. The
second exam was on 4/22
(Wed). There are some sample exam underneath. The final exam will be on 5/8
(Friday), 3:30-5:30 pm, in MSB 319.
(It was a mistake when I
said the exam would be on 5/9; thanks for Dana and Stephanie who
emailed and reminded me.)
The review on Monday is cancelled due to snow storm. There will be a
review at 7 pm on 3/3 (Tues) in MSB 319.
(In case the room is occupied, we will move to a different room, likely
on the same floor).
Old exam, quizzes and homework are good sources to prepare for the exam.
Class grades will be based on the following distribution:
All the quizzes =
25% of the
overall grade.
2 exams
=
21% each
final =
33%
Old Exam: Exam
1 , Answer
to Old Exam 1
Note that there will be "second
order equation" in our Exam 1.
Old Exam: I have
found only some very old exam; but the material has not changed much. Exam
2a (ignore question 1) Answer
to Exam 2a Exam
2b (ignore question 5) Answer
to Exam 2b
Math 5410
Homework
Solutions to
homework: 1,
2,
There will be 5
questions in the final with one of them being an ODE theorem. You
need to answer 4 questions.
Most of the
questions are on the latter part of the class: Fredholm alternative,
distribution, compact operators etc.
C.N. Chen, L.F. Cheung, Y.S. Choi, and C.K. Law, On the blowup of
heat
flow for conformal 3-harmonic maps, Transactions of AMS, 354
(2002), no. 12, 5087-5110.
Y.S. Choi, Zhongdan Huan and Roger Lui, Global existence of
solutions of a strongly-coupled quasilinear parabolic system with
application to electrochemistry,
J. of Differential Equations, 194 (2003),
406-432.
Y.S. Choi, Juliet Lee and Roger Lui, Traveling wave
solutions for a one-dimensional crawling nematode sperm cell model,
to appear in J. of Mathematical Biology.
Y.S. Choi and P.J. McKenna, A singular Gierer-Meinhardt system of
elliptic equations: a classical case, to appear in Nonlinear
Analysis: TMA.
