Short course "Numerical Continuation with AUTO" held by J. Rademacher

Deadline for registration was October 31st.
Registration is free and handled by Nada Mitrovic (Nada.Mitrovic@cwi.nl).

Prerequisite: Auto07p installed and running on a laptop with wireless internet capabilities that is brought to the course.
Installation tips.

CWI supports the wireless network system eduroam. Accounts for the CWI network can be provided upon request to Nada Mitrovic.

The course is aimed at new users of AUTO with a basic background in differential equations.
This course is a concise version of last year's.

Useful links/material

• AUTO constanst: QuickRef, clickable explanations.
• Explanation of solution file structure.
• Simplest demo: fold
• circle demo: circle
• newton demo: newton
• hopf demo: hopf
• extended hopf demo: hopf
• A matlab wrap-around: Matlab AUTO

Tentative Schedule

7.11.

9-10h Registration, installation support.

10-10.45h lesson 1 (set-up, first look at auto files, test cases, plotting)

10.45-11.15h coffee

11.15-12h lesson 2 (stationary states: fold, pitchfork, cusp)

12-13h lunch

13-13.45h lesson 3 (Hopf bifurcation and boundary value problems)

13.45h-14h break

14-14.45h lesson 4 (reaction-diffusion systems and travelling waves).

14.45-15h break

15-16h lesson 5 (review, outlook, AUTO alternative: continuation in 2D with pde2path)