Course

ME215B - Applied Dynamical Systems II

Units: 3

Instructor(s): Moehlis

Syllabus:

Local codimension two bifurcations, global bifurcations, chaos for vector fields and maps, Smale horseshoe, symbolic dynamics, strange attractors, universality, bifyrcation with symmetry, perturbation theory and averaging, Melnikov's methods, canards, applications from engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology.