March 1/2: I prepared for ¡­

March 1/2: I prepared for the Mountain Pass Theorem (MPT) by proving a deformation result. Next week is devoted to the proof of the MPT and an application to the existence of solutions to semilinear elliptic PDEs.

March 2 & 9: No Lecture (self-study).

Week 13 & 14: I will be out traveling; Siddhartha Mishra (CMA) will fill in for me; He will spend most of the time solving the exercises from Chapter 8.

Week 15: No lecture because of Easter.