We are going to study dynamics of many-dimensional systems and chaos! Applications of this topic are in all areas of physics and beyond. 50 years ago almost nobody thought that such phenomenon as chaos required any serious consideration, this is just randomness, right? In the last decades this conception drastically changed. Chaotic dynamics is present not only in our everyday life but in ALL areas of science and in fact can be and needs to be thouroughly analysed and systematised. We will consider examples of interesting dynamic behaviour (chaotic and not) in several classical mechanical systems and even one example from quantum mechanics. Lecture notes are available.
Prerequisites: no physics knowledge is required :), however, you need some mathematical background: differential equations and some basic linear algebra (matrices and operations with matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, basic knowledge of vector spaces).
The lecture can be given in German or English.
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