John A. Gemmer

Fall 2025

Instructor: John Gemmer
Office: Manchester #388
E-mail: gemmerj@wfu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 9-10, Wednesday 2:30-3:30, Thursday 1-3
Lecture: MWF: 9:00-9:50, Manchester 124
Textbooks: See syllabus.

Course Handouts:
1. Syllabus: (.pdf)

Mathematica Notebooks:

Matlab Scripts:
1. Constant slope on Tori (.m)
2. 2-d Kuramoto model (.m)

Lecture Notes:
1. Lecture #1: (Motion on Tori and Cylinders) (.pdf)

Homework Assignments:
1. Homework #1 (.pdf).

Potential Topics for Student Presentations:
1. Derivation of the Lorenz Model (.pdf).
2. Nonautonmmous Linear Systems and Floquet Theory (.pdf).
3. Gronwall's Inequality and Continuity of Solution Map for ODEs (.pdf).
4. Proof of Poincare Bendixon Theorem using Poincare Maps (.pdf).