Predrag Cvitanović Maribor lectures, 23 - 28 Jun 2014
ChaosBook.org webbook in various formats	icons explained:

Introduction to nonlinear dynamics

				how to follow this course?
				`teacher' link: the overheads, the other links are to the full text of the corresponing chapters

piece #1 : flows and maps

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					Chapter 2 - Go with the flow
					A recapitulation of basic notions of dynamics, with an eye on how to visualize it in very high dimensional states spaces.
					Chapter 3 - Discrete time dynamics
					Discrete time dynamics arises by considering sections of a continuous flow.

piece #2 : neighborhoods

				Chapter 4 - Local stability
				Local linear stability for flows and maps. Topological features of a dynamical system - singularities, periodic orbits, and the ways in which the orbits intertwine - are invariant under a general continuous change of coordinates.

piece #3 : symmetries, the good, the bad and the ugly

				Chapter 9 - World in a mirror
				Symmetries simplify the dynamics in a beautiful way: If dynamics is invariant under a set of discrete symmetries, it can be reduced to dynamics within the fundamental domain. Families of symmetry-related cycles are replaced by fewer and often much shorter "relative" cycles.
				Chapter 10 - Relativity for cyclists
				If the symmetry is continuous, the dynamics is reduced to a lower-dimensional desymmetrized system by symmetry reduction. We describe how to do this by `slicing' the group orbits.

piece #4 : knowing when to stop

				Chapter 28 - Noise
				About noise, and how it affects classical dynamics.
				Knowing when to stop: How noise frees us from determinism
				(with Domenico Lippolis, 2012)

piece #5 : dynamics in infinitely many dimensions

				Chapter 26A - dimension of turbulence?
				Flows described by PDEs are said to be `infinite dimensional' because if one writes them down as a set of ODEs, one needs infinitely many of them to represent the dynamics of one PDE. The long-time dynamics of many such systems of physical interest is finite-dimensional. Here we cure you of the fear of infinite-dimensional flows.

piece #6 : sinuous motions of fluids

				tutorial - Geometry of turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows:
				a stroll through 61,506 dimensions