Lecture Notes

Lecture notes for short courses (multi-lectures) and special talks (single lecture) can be downloaded here by clicking on the links. Notes will be posted as they become available.

• Compound Matrices and Differential Equations (Three Lectures)
(Lecture 1, Lecture 2,  Lecture 3, Notes)
Instructor:  Professor James Muldowney, University of Alberta
• A Taste of Dynamics (Two Lectures)
Instructor:  Professor Arno Berger, University of Alberta
• A tour from the binomial model to the Black-Scholes formula (Two Lectures)
(Lecture Notes)
Instructor:  Professor Christoph Frei, University of Alberta
• An Introduction to Wavelets and its Applications (Two Lectures)
(Preliminary Notes,   Lecture 1,   Lecture 2)
Instructor:  Professor Bin Han, University of Alberta
• An Introduction to Optimal Transport (Two Lectures)
(Lecture 1,   Lecture 2)
Instructor:  Professor Brendan Pass, University of Alberta
• Dynamics on Networks: from Epidemics to Flight of Drones (Three Lectures)
(Preliminaries, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Videos (zipped file))
Instructor:  Professor Michael Li, University of Alberta
• Statistical Machine Learning (Two lectures)
(Lecture 1,   Lecture 2)
Instructor:  Professor Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
• What is Geometric Analysis? (Three Lectures)
(Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3)
Instructor:  Professor Eric Woolgar, University of Alberta

• Conformal Field Theory (Title: 196883+1=196884)
Instructor:  Professor Terry Gannon, University of Alberta
• Algebraic Geometry
Instructor:  Professor Jochen Kuttler, University of Alberta
• Perturbation Method
(Lecture slides)
Instructor:  Christopher Heggerud, University of Alberta
• AI Today and Tomorrow
Lecturer:   Janathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta (Computer Science)
• AI and Computer Games
Lecturer:   Janathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta (Computer Science)
• Oscillations in Closed Chemical Reaction Systems
Instructor:  Professor Yingfei Yi, University of Alberta
• How to prepare for graduate applications
Speaker:  Professor Jochen Kuttler, Associate Chair (Graduate)
(followed by questions/answers and open floor discussions)
• Introducing a new MSc degree in Data Science at the UofA
Speaker:  Professor Michael Li
(followed by questions/answers and open floor discussions)

• Matlab Tutorial (Codes (zip), contains Matlab codes and exercises)
Instructors:  Weston Roda and Shuo Liu, PhD students, University of Alberta
• LaTex Tutorial (A LaTex Guide (pdf),   A Sample Paper (tex file)   Beamer 1 (zip file)  
  Beamer 2 (zip file)   Practice (pdf file)
  Instructor:  Professor Michael Li, University of Alberta