• Historical perspective - chaos, and what to do about it.
• Topology of flows - how to enumerate orbits, Smale horseshoes, entropy.
• Dynamics, quantitative - periodic orbits, local stability.
• Transfer operators - role of statistical distributions in dynamics.
• Thermodynamic formalism - computing measurable averages over chaotic flows.
• Spectroscopy of chaotic systems - evolution operators, zeta functions, cycle expansions.
• Quantum determinants - quantization with the Gutzwiller trace formula.

TEXT will be a baby subset of Classical and Quantum Chaos: A Cyclist Treatise lecture notes, available on http://www.nbi.dk/ChaosBook/ . Weekly homework sets require both analytic and numerical work.

START Tuesday, April 1, 1:30 in Tech L386, with detailed schedule available on http://ChaosBook.org/~predrag/NUcourses/D60-0-sched97.html . Lecture topics will be described weekly by e-mail. Please subscribe to the course e-mail distribution even if you are only interested in a subset of the topics - send e-mail with text (and no header):

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