| Date | Tentative class plan: |
| Tue, Jan 29 | Welcome! § 1.3: Elementary definitions. Demonstration of some other dynamical systems. |
| Thu, Jan 31 | § 1.2: Preliminaries from Calculus. Discusion of rotations of the circle (See the notes.) |
| Tue, Feb 5 | § 1.4: Hyperbolicity. Introduction to topological conjugacy. (Not introduced in the book until § 1.7). |
| Thu, Feb 7 | § 1.5: An example: the quadratic family. |
| Tue, Feb 12 | No class: College Closed (Lincoln's Birthday) |
| Thu, Feb 14 | § 1.5: An example: the quadratic family. |
| Tue, Feb 19 | § 1.6: Symbolic Dynamics. |
| Thu, Feb 21 | § 1.6: Symbolic Dynamics. |
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| Tue, Mar 12 | First Midterm. |
| Thu, Mar 14 | |
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| Tue, Mar 26 | No class: Spring Break |
| Thu, Mar 28 | No class: Spring Break |
| Tue, Apr 2 | No class: Spring Break |
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| Tue, May 7 | Second Midterm. |
| Thu, May 9 | |
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| Thu, May 16 |