Complexity Explorer Courses

Game Theory II- Dynamic Games

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This tutorial is the second part of of Dr. Justin Grana's tutorial on game theory

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• 1 hour
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Origins of Life

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Trace how life emerged from an abiotic world: early Earth chemistry and geology, prebiotic chemical space, essential features of modern life, evolution, and astrobiology.

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Introduction to Computation Theory

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Students will examine the formal mathematics for foundational computation proofs, as well as gain tools to analyze hard computational problems themselves.

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• 1 hour
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• Free Certificate

Lecture: Pandemics

Learn influenza mitigation strategies and pandemic forecasting, from the basic reproduction number to how the structure of contact networks shapes epidemic spread.

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Lecture: Artificial Intelligence

Survey where AI research actually stands: compare past and present predictions with reality, examine current machine learning approaches, and identify what is missing for genuine intelligence.

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Lecture: Crime and Punishment

Examine why US policing of violent crimes like robbery, assault, and murder is biased against people of color, and how stereotypes shape split-second, life-or-death decisions.

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Complexity-GAINs Curriculum

Explore curricular resources from a complex systems summer school, covering socio-behavioral systems, intelligent systems, and ecosystems, and modeling approaches drawn from physics, biology, and social sciences.

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• Free Certificate

Introduction to Open Science

Explore Open Science across the research cycle: reproducibility and replicability challenges, preregistration, open methods, materials and code, data sharing, preprints and open access publishing.

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Journal Club

Follow short summaries of recent complex systems papers, covering when social learners impair collective performance, basins of attraction, and music as a complex system.

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IN DEVELOPMENT: Multicellularity Modules

Explore how multicellular life arose: evolve "snowflake yeast" in the lab and track cluster size, programmed cell death, and the single-celled bottleneck's effect on selection.

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Lecture: What is Complexity?

Explore the question "What is complexity?" through the evolution of genetic, neural, linguistic, social, and cultural mechanisms that support memory and information processing.

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Agent-Based Models with Python: An Introduction to Mesa

Build the Sugarscape with Traders model step by step in Python with Mesa: agentize a landscape, code trader movement, trade rules, data collectors, and batch runs.

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Introduction to Complexity

Explore the tools scientists use to understand complex systems: dynamics and chaos, fractals, information theory, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, networks, and scaling in biology and society.

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Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos

Simple deterministic rules can behave randomly: study iterated functions, differential equations, bifurcations, the butterfly effect, universality, strange attractors, and pattern formation.

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Fractals and Scaling

Measure fractal dimension with self-similarity and box-counting, fit power-law exponents to empirical data, and examine fat tails, metabolic scaling, and urban scaling.

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