Complex Systems Summer School 2013-Tutorials

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CSSS participants come from a wide range of disciplines. Participants are encouraged to share their knowledge by organizing their own tutorials.

Also, please post requests for tutorials here.

This is not a Tutorial! I Pablo_Galindo had nowhere else to post it! Its an article pointing out 15 mistakes that could sink your academic careers! http://chronicle.com/article/Self-Sabotage-in-the-Academic/138875/

Bayesian Modeling I'd love to attend tutorials on Bayesian Modeling. I will be happy if someone can give a series of tutorials on this topic. Ren

• I might be able to help with this, though likely in more of a discussion format, perhaps with some slides stolen from a colleague :) Nix

Dynamics in Networks

I am very interested in learning about network dynamics. Anyone else interested in having a tutorial on that? Regina

• I'm very experienced with hidden Markov models, which are a generalization of Markov chains. These are networks with a (potentially stochastic) dynamic. Maybe this would help! Nix

Cross impact balances and Markov chains

As part of brainstorming for a possible project, three of us have decided to do a tutorial on cross-impact balances (CIB) (delivered by Vanessa) and Markov chains (delivered by Alastair and Matteo). We think these methods could be leveraged to research some interesting questions. All are invited to this tutorial regardless of their interest in contributing to a project using these methods. This tutorial will be Wed. June 5th at 4:00 PM in the large lecture hall. -- Vanessa
PS -- For those interested in examples of studies that have used CIB analysis, see this one on century-long socioeconomic scenarios or this abstract on a qualitative model regarding obesity development and prevention.

Python (and MASON)

If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to organize and run/co-run a Python programming tutorial. If anyone needs agent-based models beyond what NetLogo can handle, I'd be happy to run a tutorial on the MASON framework. -- David_Masad

Genetic Algorithms and Multi-Objective Optimization

I have seen many people interested in implementing GAs to evolve networks, which is something I have done for some of my research. I also worked with Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO), which is perfectly possible with GAs and has been around for a while; but it has not become so mainstream. I propose to make a brief tutorial of classic Genetic Algorithm vs. Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm. Enough people interested? If we are a few of us, we could just meet up and I'll tell you the basics! -- Luíño I would be very interested! -- Molly

Nix's Bag O' Mathematical Tools

I'm planning on giving a number of tutorials to supplement Jim Crutchfield and I's lectures. The purpose of these should be to help you with your projects ( and encourage usage of our methods ;) ). I think it'd be cool for people to use this area to suggest topics to focus on. I started an empty bulleted list below. This will become more clear after we've given our lectures, but feel free to throw ideas out there when they come up. General topics might be: Information theory, time series analysis/modeling/prediction, symbolic dynamics (coarse-graining dynamical systems, i.e. what Liz Bradley discussed briefly), hidden Markov models, signal processing, bayesian inference, complexity measures, etc. Nix

• Intro to information theory. There seems to be some interest in this. I'd be happy to give a tutorial, but I should note that it will be covered (at a rapid pace) in Jim Crutchfield's lecture. Nix