Faculty

Chris Adami, California Institute of Technology, USA
Albert-László Barabási, University of Notre Dame, USA
Skye Bender-deMoll, Bennington College, USA
John Casti, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Jim Crutchfield, Santa Fe Institute, USA
Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
*Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, USA
Dirk Helbing, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Tom Kepler, Santa Fe Institute, USA
Imre Kondor, Eötvös Loránd University
Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico, USA
Béla Novák, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Beáta Oborny, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
John Pepper, Santa Fe Institute, USA
Jonathan Shapiro, Manchester University, UK
Eörs Szathmáry, Collegium Budapest, Hungary
Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Gábor Vattay, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Tamas Vicsek, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Geoffrey West, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Andy Wuensche, Santa Fe Institute and Discrete Dynamics, Inc., USA
 

Course topics

Foundations of Complex Systems

• Introduction to Complex Systems - Kondor, Kepler
• Stochastic processes and statistical inference - Kepler
• Dynamical systems- Wuensche, Crutchfield
• Statistical mechanics - Moore
• Measures of complexity - Moore
• Information theory - Crutchfield
• Theory of computation - Moore, Crutchfield
• Selection and adaptation - Pepper

• Dirk Helbing - Traffic jams, pedestrian flows, and escape panics
• Jean-Louis Deneubourg - Self-organization in social insects
• Wim van Saarloos - Nonequilibrium pattern formation
• Tamas Vicsek - Statistical physics of collective behaviour

• Chris Adami - Evolution in digital and biological organisms
• Jonathan Shapiro - Evolutionary computation
• Eörs Szathmáry - Origin of life, molecular evolution

• Albert-László Barabási - Self-organized networks
• Béla Novák - DNA regulatory networks
• Gábor Vattay - Complex traffic in communication networks

• Geoffrey West

Special guest lecturers

John Casti, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
*Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, USA
 

*Not yet confirmed