Having achieved the glorious state of tenure, I felt it was time to relegate my thesis to my School Days page.

Things I should or shouldn't have said in my thesis

This is my chance to clarify some things I said in my thesis. Last significant update 2 May 2006. (I stopped adding comments on Chapter 5, Sections 5.5 and beyond once I began my rewrite of those sections of Chapter 5, which appears below.)     Postscript, PDF  

Better version of final chapter on properties of the flow

This is a cleaner, simpler, and easier to understand version of most of the contents of Chapter 5 of my thesis. It demonstrates the merit of giving a talk on material before you put it into your thesis. Last updated 31 March 2010.  PDF

Published version of final chapter on properties of the flow

Builds on the better version above and adds a second part concerning an inverse problem associated with the flow map. Appears in Nonlinearity, 24, 2599-2637, 2011. PDF

The thesis itself

The single-spaced version of my thesis (recompiled on 18 March 2011 to include active links--in PDF version only).        Postscript, PDF