You can find the First Day Writing Assignment using the navigation bar above or by clicking here.

Please complete our Student Survey by 6pm Friday September 21 so we can read your responses before our first class meeting. You can find the survey by clicking here.

Note: You can’t save your responses in the on-line survey form, so read the questions first, compose your responses in a separate file when needed, then copy and paste into the appropriate space on the form; please use simple formatting. We encourage you to keep a copy of your responses.

Our mandatory first class meeting begins promptly at 10:00 am Monday September 24 in Lab 2 room 1223A (the first floor of the Lab 2 building), which is the Computer Applications Lab (CAL). Registered students who will miss this meeting must contact faculty in advance.

We will have a somewhat non-standard first week of the program. We ask that all students, regardless of which part(s) of the program they’re taking, attend class both in the morning and the afternoon on the Monday and Tuesday of week 1: Monday, 9/24, 10-12 and 1-3, and Tuesday, 9/25, 10-12 and 1:30-3:30.

We are eager to meet those of you we don’t know, welcome back those we have worked with before, and to begin our work together!

-Krishna and Brian

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• updated 8/27/18
• the class schedule available online via your my.evergreen.edu may not be completely up-to-date. Please use the above as our official schedule.

Used version of textbooks are fine, and we encourage you to seek out the most economical versions you can appropriately obtain (in particular, you should be able to find copies of Boas that are much reduced from the cover price). We expect that you will bring copies of the texts with you to class regularly. Electronic versions are fine as long as you can access them on devices that won’t distract you or your classmates. The books should also be available via the Evergreen Bookstore.

• Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, 3rd Edition. Mary L. Boas. ISBN 9780471198260.
• Introduction to Linear Algebra, Fifth Edition. Gilbert Strang. ISBN 9780980232776.
• Div, Grad, Curl, and All That (An Informal Text of Vector Calculus), Fourth Edition. H.M. Schey. ISBN 9780393925166.

Brian Walter will join Krishna Chowdary to form the PSAM teaching team for fall quarter. Brian will primarily be responsible for differential equations and linear algebra, and Krishna will primarily be responsible for multivariable & vector calculus and math lab.

You can find the Entrance Application, Diagnostic Exam, and detailed information here.

All students who meet the prerequisites as demonstrated on the Entrance Application and Diagnostic Exam will be given signature permission to register for the program. The signature will not automatically register you for the program – you will still need to register for the program. Students who receive a signature will be notified by email and expected to register within a week of the email being sent.

Physical Systems and Applied Mathematics (PSAM) is one of the key advanced programs in the Integrated Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences (ICMaPS) path of study at Evergreen. You can read our catalog description here. You can find information about applying for the program here.

Fall quarter of PSAM is an intensive study of applied mathematics: differential equations, linear algebra, and multi-variable & vector calculus, supported by a math lab; each component is 4 credits. All students must take math lab, but partial credit options are available: students may choose to take any combination of differential equations, linear algebra, or multi-variable & vector calculus. For example, math lab + 1 subject (8 credits) or math lab + 2 subjects (12 credits) or math lab + 3 subjects (16 credits, the full program).

Winter and spring quarters will build on the mathematical foundation from fall quarter as we take on central subjects in physics: classical mechanics (4 credits winter + 4 credits spring), electricity & magnetism (4 credits winter + 4 credits spring), and quantum mechanics (4 credits winter + 4 credits spring), along with a lab/project component (4 credits winter + 4 credits spring).

Please read the other posts for more information. You may also email faculty Krishna Chowdary at chowdark@evergreen.edu or meet Krishna at All-Campus Mentoring Day or the Academic Fair on Wed. May 16.