Times: MWF 10-11am. March 6 – May 3 (no meetings April 3-7)

Room: 445 Altgeld Hall

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Office hours (starting March 15): Wednesday 11am-noon in 259 Altgeld Hall. Or else talk to me after class, or drop by my office 259 Altgeld Hall whenever my door is open, or make an appointment by email or phone (217-333-1329).

Course announcement and philosophy

Daily schedule Spring 2017 (Fall 2011), including texts on reserve
Final project presentations

Lecture notes in pdf format (updated June 2021).

Also available: the TeX source file and 37 figures (pdf and jpg) and the Mathematica file used to make the figures.

Journal of Spectral Theory
Java applets for vibrating membranes (and other vibrating systems)
PDE Toolbox in Matlab (computes eigenvalues, plots eigenfunctions)