Solitons
This is the web-page for the 2025-26 level III Solitons course in the
Michaelmas term. See also the
blackboard page for the course.
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Contact
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Lectures
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Office hour
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Problems classes
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Animations
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Problems
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Assignments
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Books
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Links
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Dramatis personae
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Lectures
Office hour
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Tuesday 10:00 in MCS2033
(If you have a question and can't make it then, please send me an
email
and we can fix up an alternative.)
Problems classes
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Wednesday 11:00 in MCS2068 in teaching weeks 4, 6, 8 and 10
Animations and computer programs
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Click here to see numerical
solutions of the "dispersing KdV" equation.
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Click here to see numerical
solutions of the dispersionless KdV, or Monge, equation.
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Click here to see numerical
solutions of the full KdV equation.
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Click here to see the other
animations, of solutions of
the full KdV equation, that will be discussed in the first lecture.
(Warning - these may slow down your computer while they load!)
Problems
Problems will be posted here, and also on blackboard.
Assignments
Assignments will be set every week, but only the even-numbered ones will be for handing in. Solutions to all will be
posted on blackboard as term goes by.
Recommended books
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P.G. Drazin and R.S. Johnson, Solitons: An Introduction, CUP
1989;
ISBN 0521336554
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N. Manton and P. Sutcliffe, Topological Solitons, CUP 2004;
ISBN 0521838363
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T. Dauxois and M. Peyrard, Physics of Solitons, CUP 2006;
ISBN 0521854210
Interesting links
Dramatis personae
Click on the mugshots to find out more...