MATH 251B
WINTER 2008

TOPICS IN PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS


Instructor: G.Eskin

MWF 12-1 pm Room:MS 5217

Office:MS 6917, Office hours: M,W 3:30 - 4:30

Course Outline

1. Pseudodifferentials operators.

2. The Cauchy problem for parabolic and hyperbolic equations.

3. Boundary value problems and parametrices for the elliptic equations.

4. Heat trace expansion.

5. Fourier Integral Operators and applications to the propagation of singularities of solutions of hyperbolic equation.

Homework Assignments