Thomas Hillen

Professor, Faculty of Science - Mathematics & Statistical Sciences

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Professor, Faculty of Science - Mathematics & Statistical Sciences
Email
thillen@ualberta.ca

Overview

Research

Areas

Mathematical Biology & Partial Differential Equations

Courses

MATH 539 - Applied Functional Analysis

Linear part:structure of function spaces, Sobolev spaces, embeddings, topologies, linear operators, adjoint and inverse operators, spectra, distributions, semigroup theory, integral equations, well-posedness and the notion of a solution. Nonlinear part: inequalities, Frechet and Gateaux derivatives, fixed point theorems. Applications from mechanics, reaction-diffusion equations, the Navier-Stokes equations, nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Prerequisite: MATH 438 or equivalent.


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