DO NOT TAKE HER. AVOID IF POSSIBLE.
Her accent is so thick! its so hard to pay attention
Honestly, I liked the teacher but It was her accent that made it hard to understand but overall she was great but she is kinda confusing, however office hours worked!
She can be pretty dry at times and sometimes stumbles on the derivations of certain PDEs but you can ignore this for the most part since she doesn't really worry about you being able to derive such things. She makes it pretty clear what you'll have to be able to do in order to do well in her tests. Let's you take a note card and fill it up. Solid.
Reads from PowerPoints. No doubt she's intelligent, but that is useless when you don't know how to share what you know with your students. If you can't teach yourself, avoid this professor.
Panagiotou is a researcher, she cannot teach. She uses poerpoints to expain and almost never writes on the board unless shes just spent ten minutes verbalizing something to a student before she realizes its not working. Her teaching is a joke, she gets her own answers wrong, she curves everyone to a B even if they deserved an A- or D.
She does not teach. She will give homework before every lecture and practice exams but the midterms and final are nothing like anything you see from her. I learned from my TA and teaching myself. Iclickers count as a part of your grade otherwise I never would have gone to lecture because I learned nothing.
I took this class and I hated it. I learned more by reading the book than by coming to class. Her homeworks did not align with lectures and she does not have any form of preparation for final or midterms. She also makes a lot of mistakes and makes everyone confused. I would not recommend her.
This professor is by far the worst anyone can take at UCSB; the material is straight forward if math is your strong suit. She reads off slides and can not explain AT ALL. Going to office hours, she tends to get frustrated when students don't understand her, makes me laugh at how inconsiderate she is to those who struggle in math. avoid her!!
homework is the biggest time dump I've had for any class in UCSB so far. Get ready to have no time to study for your other classes. Attendance is mandatory with iclickers and if you miss one question all class you missed the attendance for the day and there's about 10 questions each class. I can't explain the inconvenience this class has caused.
DO NOT EVER TAKE THIS CLASS. One, she doesn't teach (not that she doesn't try) she just simply can't explain the material. Seems like she doesn't even know the material she's teaching. Not only does she not answer emails but, she doesn't answer questions at the end of class because she wants you to go to office hours which she cancels regularly.
She is by far the worst professor I have ever had at UC Santa Barbra. She is a disgrace to the university and teaching itself. She puts no effort in her job and just reads off of lecture slides. She is not very lenient with grading too. Avoid at all costs.