Calculus of Variations
UBC Math 402 — Winter 2026
MWF 15:00–15:50, room MATH 225
Professor Philip D. Loewen

All the materials for this term's instance of MATH 402 are served through UBC's Canvas Learning Management System.

Our discussion page on Piazza can be accessed directly, or through a link on the course's Canvas page.

Resources

Documents and Links, in reverse chronological order
First Post Date	Description	Latest Update
2026-04-08	Assignment 11	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Hamilton-Jacobi Theory	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Assignment 10	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Fields of Extremals	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Assignment 9	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Assignment 8	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Transversality Conditions	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Assignment 7	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Local Sufficient Conditions	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Assignment 6	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	Strong Minima and the Weierstrass Condition	2026-04-08
2026-04-08	The Second Variation	2026-04-08
2026-02-13	Convexity and Sufficiency	2026-02-13
2026-02-11	Assignment 5	2026-02-11
2026-02-02	Lagrange Multipliers	2026-02-11
2026-01-30	Assignment 4	2026-01-30
2026-01-23	Assignment 3	2026-01-23
2026-01-16	Assignment 2	2026-01-16
2026-01-09	Assignment 1	2026-01-09
2026-01-09	Quadratic Integrands	2026-01-13
2026-01-07	First Variations	2026-01-23

Last update: 08 Apr 2026 (Wed), 16:37:45. (Click a graphic to recheck.)