Course Information

The course description can be found here.

• Peter HC Pang: Room 1124 Sentralbygg II (peter.pang@ntnu.no)

Lectures will be in English. Please use your institutional email for correspondence.

• Davide Murari (davide.murari@ntnu.no)

The first lecture is on Monday, 11th of January, 2021. It will be a Zoom lecture — login details are on Blackboard and emailed to registered students. The first in-person lecture is happening on the 8th of February, 2021.

Peter Pang: Mondays, 15.00 - 17.00, Room 1124 Sentralbygg II

You are welcome to request appointments outside of scheduled office hours in writing. I shall try my best to oblige.

Whilst work-from-home remains University policy, I will be reachable by email. Please use your institutional email accounts for correspondence.

The first exercise class is on Monday, 18th of January, 2021.

We shall be following the text (sometimes more loosely and sometimes more closely):

D.G. Schaeffer and J.W. Cain. Ordinary Differential Equations: Basics and Beyond. Springer Nature, 2016,

and

L. Perko. Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems. Springer, 2001, 3rd edition.

Both are fully accessible via NTNU at the links provided.

Recommended texts are references. Naturally, it is assumed that you attend lectures.

The date of examination is Friday, the 4th of June, 2021. For information on examination regulations and procedures, see here. Dear TMA4165,

This is a message to students intending to sit the re-take examination.

As you all know, it has been announced that this is an oral examination. Since no application was made by me to turn this into an oral examination, and the university administration was largely away over the summer, some time was needed to ascertain that this has indeed been registered as an oral examination, and to make other due preparations. I am writing to ask that candidates who signed up for the oral exam make the following preparations:

(1) The date of the examination is set for the 9th of August. It is not possible to hold all the exams on this day — I intend to hold them all on the 9th and the 10th (Monday and Tuesday) if possible. If one of these days absolutely do not work for you, or some part of either of these days do not work (for medical appointments, other examinations, etc.), please write to inform me before noon on Friday the 30th. The examination schedule will be published one or two days after.

(2) You will be sent a Zoom link via your NTNU email for this examination, and the examination will be held virtually/digitally. It is important that you have ready a camera, pens, and a writing pad, or some like equipment, so that you can present some written deductions or calculations.

(3) If you want to test your equipment in advance, I am available in five-minute slots to do this. Please write to make an appointment before the 7th of August.

A guide to digital oral exams can be found here: https://innsida.ntnu.no/wiki/-/wiki/English/Digital+oral+exam+-+for+students.

The examination, like the written examination in June, will be in English. The scope of the examination remains unchanged. Each exam will be overseen by two examiners, for a duration of circa 35 minutes.