Complex Systems Modeling Courses and Certifications

Maximum Entropy Methods

10 ratings

In this tutorial, Simon DeDeo introduces MaxEnt through a series of examples, taking students from the basics of the subject up to its applications in science and engineering

• Complexity Explorer
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Global Systemic Risk

466 ratings at Coursera

Analyze globalization with systems thinking, network theory, and risk analysis, applying them to trade, finance, COVID-19 governance, and scenarios of systemic collapse.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Systems Science and Obesity

205 ratings at Coursera

Apply systems science to the obesity epidemic: build stock-and-flow system dynamics models, examine social networks and neighborhoods, and run agent-based food acquisition models in NetLogo.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Emergent Phenomena in Science and Everyday Life

170 ratings at Coursera

Ordinary parts can collectively yield surprising behavior: explore emergence through complex fluids, chaotic dynamics, pattern formation in nature, quantum coherence, and the origins of consciousness.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Simulation and modeling of natural processes

413 ratings at Coursera

Model natural phenomena from scratch in Python: Monte Carlo methods, numerical integration of dynamical systems, cellular automata, lattice Boltzmann fluid flow, N-body, discrete events and agent-based models.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems: the Nexus between Water, Energy and Food

110 ratings at Coursera

Numbers aren't always right: analyze a community's water-energy-food nexus with metabolic accounting, grammars, MuSIASEM applications, and quantitative story-telling for policy.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Digitalisation in Aeronautics

215 ratings at Coursera

Explore digitalisation across aeronautics: collaborative aircraft design with the ADEBO toolbox, avionics bus systems like ARINC429 and AFDX, Modelica multi-domain simulation, and reduced-order structural models.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling and Simulation

56 ratings at Coursera

Model and simulate cyber-physical systems: discrete-time and continuous-time processes, finite state machines, cyber-physical converters, digital networks, and trajectories over hybrid time domains.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of Lausanne Career Certificate

HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS

Explore urban health through multidisciplinary frameworks, observations and measures, modeling tools, scenario design, and place-based policies and governance for cities.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

University of Lausanne

Healthy Urban systems Part 2 : Theories, models and tools

Apply theoretical frameworks for urban health systems and build a model of your own urban health question in Holistic System Analysis & Modelling software.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of Lausanne

HEALTHY URBAN SYSTEMS - PART 2 : Theories, models and tools

Build models of urban health systems: apply theoretical frameworks and use Holistic System Analysis & Modelling software to model your own urban health question.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Systems modelling

10 ratings at OpenLearn

Explore the power of systems modelling to improve understanding, identify problems, and support decision-making through various types of models and practical applications.

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Stanford Seminar - Lenia- Biology of Artificial Life, Bert Wang-Chak Chan

Explore Lenia, a continuous cellular automaton whose self-organizing patterns resemble microscopic life and can be studied through evolution, ecology, and morphology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Smart Grids: The Basics

Understand the basics of smart grids. Learn about their heterogeneity, dynamics, control, and about security and assessment strategies.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Smart Grids: Modeling

Learn to build a model of a smart power grid, and to diagnose the effects of disturbances from variable renewable energy resources and intelligent demand on the grid.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate