The Santa Fe Institute has released the FAQ and syllabus for its “Introduction to Complexity” course in 2013.
The course starts January 28, 2013 and will last for eleven (11) weeks.
Lecture units:
- What is Complexity?
- Dynamics, Chaos, and Fractals
- Information, Order, and Randomness
- Cellular Automata
- Genetic Algorithms
- Self-Organization in Nature
- Modeling Social Systems
- Networks
- Scaling
- Cities as Complex Systems
- Course Field Trip; Final Exam
Funding permitting there may be a Complexity part II in the summer of 2013.
Your interest and participation in this course may help drive the appearance of the second course.
An earlier post on the course: Introduction to Complexity [Santa Fe Institute].