Freshmen Discovery Course
Alfred W Hubler, 244-5892
office hour: Tuesdays 11am-noon, 4-125 ESB
course number: 40292
Complex Systems:
- life, reproduction, and evolution of simple organisms
- chaos and catastropes
- lightning
- earth quakes
- turbulence
- explosions
- the spread of infections, including the spread of the HIV virus in a population, the spread of cancer cells in a body, the spread of new technologies and ideas
- the rise and fall of social organizations
- mixed reality systems
Mathematical Concepts:
- deterministic chaos
- fractals
- neural nets
- cellular automata
- genetic algorithms
Computational Concepts:
Complex Systems Paradigms:
- adapation to the edge of chaos
- minimum resistance
- control of chaos
- leadership paradigm
Lecture Notes:
will be posted here (user name: guest, password: guest).
Grades:
- 60% of the grade is based on attendence
- 20% of the grade is based on weekly homework assignments, such as filling out a work sheet or writing a short computer program (most students complete the homework assignments in less than 30min)
- 20% of the grade is based so several 10min-quizzes in class
Student Directory
This courseware was created with support from NSF grant 0140179.