Teaching

Overview MATH 303 is a required course for DKU students in the major Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and elective for students in other majors. Course Description Differential equations and dynamical systems are essential mathematical tools for modeling a large variety of phenomena. They are used in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, Finance, Sociology, and beyond, to describe various processes.

Overview This is a compulsory course for students in the University of Groningen programs BSc Chemistry and BSc Chemical Engineering. I taught this course from 2014 to 2019 in classes of 250-300 students. In 2017 I was elected Teacher of the Year in the BSc Chemical Engineering for this course 😄.

Overview This is a compulsory course for students in the University of Groningen programs BSc Mathematics, BSc Applied Mathematics, BSc Physics, and BSc Astronomy. I taught this course from 2014 to 2018 in classes of 90-120 students. Course Description Complex analysis treats complex valued functions defined in the complex plane which are analytic, i.

Overview This is a required course for University of Groningen students in the programs MSc Mathematics and MSc Applied Mathematics. I co-taught this course from 2017 to 2019. Course Description The course gives an overview of topics on Complexity and Networks. In the first part, consisting of four lectures, we discuss synchronization and the stability of synchronized solutions for systems connected in a network.

Overview This is a compulsory course for University of Groningen students in the programs BSc Mathematics and BSc Applied Mathematics. I taught this course from 2015 to 2017 in classes of approximately 60 students. Course Description Problems in physics are in general modeled in terms of PDEs such as the wave equation, the diffusion equation, and the Laplace equation.

Overview This is a compulsory course for XJTLU students in the program BSc Applied Mathematics. I taught the course in two successive years, with drastic changes in the course content and delivery from the first to the second year. Classical Mechanics (2013) Course Description Foundations of classical mechanics: Newton’s laws of motion, inertial and non-inertial reference frames, energy principles.

Overview This is an elective course for XJTLU students in the program BSc Applied Mathematics. Course Description Wave particle duality. Schrödinger’s equation for simple one dimensional systems. Finite-dimensional Hilbert space and matrix mechanics. Angular momentum and the hydrogen atom. Perturbation theory and the variational method. Collapse of the wave function, Schrödinger’s cat and the EPR paradox.

Overview This is a required course for University of Groningen students in the programs BSc Mathematics, BSc Applied Mathematics, BSc Physics & Mathematics and an elective course in the MSc Physics and Applied Physics. I taught this course from 2008 to 2012. Course Description In Euclidean spaces, continuity is defined using the familiar Euclidean distance between points.

Overview Geometry and Physics (Meetkunde en Natuurkunde) was an elective course for University of Groningen students in the programs BSc Mathematics, BSc Applied Mathematics, BSc Astronomy, BSc Physics & Mathematics, MSc Physics, and MSc Applied Physics. I taught this course from 2005 to 2007 in small classes. Course Description Gauss and Riemann, among others, studied the properties of manifolds: curved, non-Euclidean spaces.