CSSS 2010 Santa Fe-Readings

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Please review readings before lectures. Supplemental material may be posted as well.

Liz Bradley

• Numerical Solution of Differential Equations
  
• Time Series Analysis

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Tom Carter

Here is a link to a page with various background readings -- I'll be talking about some of this material, watch the wiki for days/times

• Summer School readings.

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Iain Couzin

• Complexity. An Informative Itinerary
• Collective Cognition in Animal Groups
• Collective Motion and Cannibalism in Locust Migratory Bands
• Collective Minds
• Effective Leadership and Decision-Making in Animal Groups on the Move

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Doug Erwin

• Evolution
• Niche Construction & Diversity
• Modeling Biodiversity

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Duncan Foley

• Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy
• Economic Complexity and Dynamics in Interactive Systems
• Hyman Minsky and the Dilemmas of Contemporary Economic Method

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Laura Fortunato

• Complex Systems in Anthropology

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John Harte

• Maximum Entropy and the State-Variable Approach to Macroecology
• Biodiversity Scaling

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Jure Leskovec

1) -- models and link prediction in large social networks:

• Kronecker Graphs
• Microscopic Evolution of Social Networks
• Community Structure in Large Networks

2) -- tracking information diffusion, finding influencers and detecting disease outbreaks in networks

• Meme Tracking & News Cycle Dynamics
• Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network
• Outbreak Detection in Social Networks
• 2004 Election Political Blogger Networks

3) -- models of networks with positive and negative ties

• Trust & Distrust
• Signed Networks & Social Media:
• Predicting Postive & Negative Links in Online Social Networks
• Governance in Social Media

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Cosma Shalizi

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

• Quantifying Self-Organization with Optimal Predictors
  
• Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview
  

Artificial Intelligence

• Blind Construction of Optimal Nonlinear Recursive Predictors for Discrete Sequences
  

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases

• Automatic Filters for the Detection of Coherent Structure in Spatiotemporal Systems
  

Statistical/Computational Mechanics

• Statistical Mechanics/Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity
  

Neurons and Cognition

• The Computational Structure of Spike Trains
  
• Discovering Functional Communities in Dynamical Networks
  
• Measuring Shared Information and Coordinated Activity in Neuronal Networks
  

Probability

• Optimal Nonlinear Prediction of Random Fields on Networks

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Eric Smith

• Evolutionary Linguistics

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