Coordinator:Panos Kevrekidis
Class Meetings:F 2:30-3:45, LGRT 1528
PK's Office Hours: TuTh: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., W: 10:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. or by appointment.
PK's Contact Info:
Office:LGRT 1524
Phone:413-577-1977
Fax:413-545-1801
E-mail: kevrekid@math.umass.edu
Mailbox:LGRT 1623D

Handouts:

General Information Handout


Some Talks on our Topics of Interest:

A Talk on BECs (on which the presentation of 10/03 will be based)

A Presentation by Prof. Chiara Daraio on Granular Crystals


Downloads / Matlab Computations / Presentation and Review Materials:

Two codes for the numerical solution of ODEs by

John Polking

of Rice University are:

pplane7.m for planar systems

odesolve.m for higher-order autonomous systems

A few introductory links for Matlab:

A basic tutorial for Matlab

A Matlab Tutorial by Peter Turner of Clarkson University

An online tutorial by Mathworks

A Matlab Tutorial by Monica Nitsche of the University of New Mexico

Presentations on the material:

A presentation on the material of Bose-Einstein condensates

A presentation on the material of Granular Crystals

Additional Material:

A review paper on Bose-Einstein condensates and dark solitons in them

Chapter 9 Contains Material on Numerical Computations with NLS Equations

Section 5 contains a brief review paper on Granular Crystals and solitary waves in them

Some Codes:

An integrator of the 1d continuum NLS equation

A Newton solver identifying solutions and the spectral stability thereof for the 1d continuum NLS equation