Complex Systems Summer SChool 2013-Lecture Readings

Complex Systems Summer School 2013 Home Research Assistant Position Details Surveys/Evaluations Logistics Faculty Participants Schedule Lecture Slides Background Readings Software Projects & Working Groups CIB Markov Comedy and Tragedy in Shakespeare Global Emergent Risk NetAttac Cities Matrix Matters Synchrony on Networks Unfolding History Tutorials Blog Glue Session Forum Project Presentations Final Papers After Hours Hiking Photos TShirts Question Of the Week Page

Liz Bradley

Slides

Syllabus
Lecture 1 (Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics, Maps)
Lecture2 (Flows) Complete Slides

Notes

Time Series Analysis
Numerical Solution of Differential Equations

Jim Crutchfield

The Complexity lecture PDFs (2) are here:

Complexity Lecture Slides 1
Complexity Lecture Slides 2

Interactive HTML versions (with all animations) are here:

Complexity Lecture Slides 1
Complexity Lecture Slides 2

Jennifer Dunne

Ecological Network Structure & Dynamics Lecture Slides

Jessica Flack

[Media:jflacks.pdf |Papers and books of interest in the robustness literature]

John Harte

John Harte Slides

Melanie Mitchell

Slides

Lecture 1, Biologically Inspired Computing
Lecture 2, Simple models of self-organization and emergence
Video: What are Complex Systems?

NetLogo Files

Ants
Fireflies
Flocking
Preferential Attachment
Robby the Robot GA's

Mercedes Pascual

Slides

Lecture 1, Macroscopic patterns in pathogen diversity form an ecological perspective
Lecture 2, Anticipating critical transitions

Additional Reading

Canalization of the evolutionary trajectory of the human influenza virus- Trevor Bedford, Andrew Rambaut, and Mercedes Pascual
Quantifying limits to detection of early warning for critical transitions -Carl Boettiger and Alan Hastings
From patterns to predictions - Carl Boettiger and Alan Hastings
Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction - Sonia Kefi, Max Rietkerk, Manojit Roy, Alain Franc, Peter C. de Ruiter, and Mercedes Pascual
Forecasting a class of bifurcations: Theory and experiment - Joosup Lim and Bogdan I. Epureanu
ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATES IN EUTROPHIC, SHALLOW FRESHWATER SYSTEMS: A MINIMAL MODEL - M. SCHEFFER
Early-warning signals for critical transitions - Marten Scheffer et al.
Epochal Evolution Shapes the Phylodynamics of Interpandemic Influenza A (H3N2) in Humans - Katia Koelle et al.
Anticipating Critical Transitions - Marten Scheffer et al
Appendix: Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic Shift - E. H. van Nes and M. Scheffer
Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic Shift. - Egbert H. van Nes and Marten Scheffer
Understanding Shifts in Wildfire Regimes as Emergent Threshold Phenomena. - Richard D. Zinck, Mercedes Pascual, and Volker Grimm
The Roles of Competition and Mutation in Shaping Antigenic and Genetic Diversity in Influenza - Daniel Zinder, Trevor Bedford, Sunetra Gupta, Mercedes Pascual

Andreas Wagner

Lecture Slides, Evolution and genotype networks