Announcements will be posted here throughout the semester. These are copies of emails sent to registered students posted on this Web site for your convenience.
08.21.2016
Dear student,
As I mentioned in my "Instructor's Welcome to Math 488" message, our normal means of communicating with one another will be by email or by phone. I also said that will send you a "Math 488 Week" message at the beginning of nth-week.
08.28.2016
Dear student,
I hope that you were able to make a good make a good start with Lectures 1, 2, 3 and the associated homework assigned for Week 1.
09.03.2016
Dear student,
I hope that you are enjoying the Labor Day weekend! Just in case you should have the urge to look ahead to the next week’s work in Math 488, I am sending you this weekly message on Saturday rather than the the usual Sunday time:
09.11.2016
Dear student,
I hope that your work this past week has allowed you to catch up after joining my class a bit late.
09.18.2016
Dear student,
Before I begin comment on the lectures and homework for Week 5, I would appreciate it if you could let me know whether you have completed the lectures and homework for Week 4 (Lectures 11 and 12).
09.25.2016
Dear student,
Our class schedule states that you should complete Lectures 15, 16, 17 and the associated homework problems on or before next Sunday, October 2.
10.09.2016
Dear student,
According to our class schedule, you should complete Lectures 18, 19, and Part 1 of Lecture 20 and the associated homework by Sunday, October 16.
10.16.2016
Dear student,
According to our class schedule, you should complete Lectures 22, 23 and 24 and the associated homework problems by Sunday, October 23. The content summary below should help you to understand this material.
10.19.2016
Dear Math 488 Student:
I will be out of the country and out of email and phone contact from Friday, Oct. 21, until Monday, Oct. 31. Consequently, I have prepared the Math 488 Week 10 message in advance and have asked Peg Pisel to distribute that message to you.
10.31.2016
Dear Math 488 Student:
Our class schedule specifies that you should complete Lectures 28 and 29 and the associated homework problems by Sunday, November 6. These two lectures begin our discussion of boundary value problems for partial differential equations.
11.07.2016
Dear Math 488 Student:
Our class schedule specifies that you should complete Lectures 30 and 31 and the associated homework problems by Sunday, November 13. These are the last lectures and homework that will be covered by Exam 2, which is to be given during the week of November 14 - 18.