CSSS 2008 Beijing-Readings-Week-Two

CSSS 2008 Beijing Home Faculty Participants Highlights Photos Schedule Readings and Lecture Notes Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Projects T-Shirt Chinese Visa Information Travel Details and Logistics Final Papers

Aaron Clauset

• Power Laws
• Introduction to Networks I
• Introduction to Networks II

Background Reading

The following references cover background material for the three lectures.

• "The Structure and function of complex networks." M. E. J. Newman, SIAM Review 45, 167-256 (2003)
• "Power-law distributions in empirical data." A. Clauset, C. R. Shalizi and M. E. J. Newman. arXiv:0706.1062 (2007).

DI Zhengru

Introduction to Weighted Networks

Background Reading

• Ying Fan, Menghui Li, Peng Zhang, Jinshan Wub, Zengru Di. Accuracy and precision of methods for community identification in weighted networks. Physica A 377 (2007) 363­372.
• S. Boccaletti, , V. Latora, Y. Moreno, M. Chavef , D.-U. Hwang. Complex networks: Structure and dynamics. Physics Reports 424 (2006) 175 ­ 308.
• Menghui Li, Ying Fan, Dahui Wang, Daqing Li, Jinshan Wu, Zengru D. Small-world effect induced by weight randomization on regular networks. Physics Letters A 364 (2007) 488­493.
• Menghui Li, Dahui Wang, Ying Fan, Zengru Di, and Jinshan Wu1. Modelling weighted networks using connection count. New Journal of Physics 8 (2006) 72.

HAO Bai-lin

• Media:csss08b.ppt

Background Reading

Lecture 1：Symbolic Dynamics in Action or Applied Symbolic Dynamics

1. Bailin Hao, Elementary Symbolic Dyanmics and Chaos in Dissipative Systems,

  a monograph, World Scientific, 1989. Downloadable from Hao's webpage:
  http://www.itp.ac.cn/~hao/ESDCDS-hao.pdf
  Hao's apology: Since not all figures in this book were Postscript files and
  I have not made them into .eps yet, I have put an image of my personal copy
  in my website. It is a file of more than 20MB. That is why I did not put it
  in the SFI Wiki. I hope I will be able to do it in not-distant future. The
  symbolic dynamics chapters of this book are somehow outdated. For those who
  want to learn more about symbolic dynamics I suggest the following book.

2. Bailin Hao and Weimou Zheng, Applied Symbolic Dynamics and Chaos, WSPC, 1989,

  430pp. There is one copy at SFI's Library and in ITP-CAS Library.

Lecture 2: Visualization of real DNA data and a few nice math therefrom

1. Media:HaoXie_SFI.pdf

1. Media:jkps07.pdf

1. Media:ProkBranch_jse08.pdf

Dan Hruschka

• Models of Cultural Diversity
• Simple Models of Social Learning
• Neutral Models of Language Change

ZHAO Liping

• Top Down vs. Bottom Up: Gut Microbiota and Whole-body Systems Biology Four slides on each page.
• Top Down vs. Bottom Up: Gut Microbiota and Whole-body Systems Biology One slide on each page.

Background Reading

1. Pang et al., Inter-species transplantation of gut microbiota from human to pigs, The ISME J. 1(2007): 156-162)
2. Wei Jia, Houkai Li, Liping Zhao, and Jeremy K. Nicholson, Got microbiota: a potential new territory for drug targeting, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 7 (Feb 2008): 123-129.
3. Min Li et al., Symbiotic gut microbes modulate human metabolic phenotypes, Prod. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105(6) (Feb 2008): 2117-2122.