Chaos, Complexity, and Inference (36-462): Lecture Notes
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which includes the readings.
- Lecture 25 (April 22): Inference on networks
- slides
- Lecture 24 (April 15): Contagion on networks
- slides
- Lecture 23 (April 10): Collective phenomena and self-organization in
agent-based models
- slides
- Lecture 22 (April 8): Agents and Agent-Based Models
- slides
- Lecture 21 (April 3): Complex networks 2
- slides
- Lecture 20 (April 1): Complex networks 1
- slides
- Lecture 19 (March 25): Inference from simulations
- slides;
R
- Lecture 18 (March 20):
Special problem-solving session for homework 2
- partial solutions; R
- Lecture 17 (March 18):
Error Statistics and Severe Testing
- slides
- Lecture 16 (March 6):
Heavy tails 4, testing and evaluation
- slides and R
- Lecture 15 (March 4):
Heavy tails 3, estimation
- slides
- Lecture 14 (February 28):
Heavy tails 2, origins
- slides
- Lecture 13 (February 26):
Heavy tails 1, basics
- General R files for the next several lectures
- slides; R
- Lecture 12 (February 21): Self-organization 2
- slides
- Lecture 11 (February 19): Cellular automata 2/Excitable media
- slides
- Lecture 10 (February 14): Cellular automata 1
- slides
- Lecture 9 (February 12): Self-organization 1
- Philip and Phylis Morrison and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten
- slides
- see also: Pattern Formation in Cocktails
- Lecture 8 (February 7): Determinism and randomness
- Henri Poincaré, "Chance"
(from Science and Method, 1908)
- slides
- Lecture 7 (February 5): Information theory
- slides
- M.C. Hawking, "Entropy",
from Fear of a Black Hole
[lyrics; mp3 (radio-safe Brief History of
Rhyme version)]
- Ray and Charles
Eames, A
Communications Primer
- Lecture 6 (January 31): Inference for Markov chains and related processes
- slides
- Note: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Markov Chains
- Lecture 5 (January 29): Symbolic dynamics; stochastics from dynamics
- slides
- Note: More on the Topological Entropy Rate
- Lecture 4 (January 24): Attractor reconstruction and nonlinear prediction
- slides (see slides for R examples).
- Note: Nonlinear prediction, nearest-neighbors, kernel methods
- Lorenz time-series generator, written in Perl.
- the Lorenz time series used in the lecture
- Lecture 3 (January 22): Attractors
- slides; R
- Lecture 2 (January 17): More chaos
- slides;
R
- The Arnold Cat Map Movie (starring Marlowe the Cat, directed by Evelyn Sander)
- Lecture 1 (January 15): What is a dynamical system? What is chaos? What is a simulation?
- slides;
R
Corrupting the Young;
Complexity;
Enigmas of Chance;
Networks
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