Course Readings
- Introduction (1 week)
# - "What is a model?" A. Shiflet and G. Shiflet Introduction to Computational Science pp. 6-11. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2006).
- Mitchell preface, Ch1, Ch 14 (p 209-212 only)
- Hall and Day Revisiting the limits to growth
- P. J. Denning, "Computing is a natural science"
- MatlaB Tutorial. Download software from here.
- Student presentations of modeling examples
- The power of salt: Power generation from where river water and seawater meet (Justin Carmichael)
- How complexity science helped restore Bali's rice traditions (Jade Archuleta)
- Health Savings From Cutting Greenhouse Gases Will Pay for a Low-Carbon Economy (Sergio Gonzales)
- Corruption 'impoverishes and kills millions' (Burton Korten)
- Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals Brandon Contreras
- UNM professor's research could change the way doctors attack cancer Prashant Dogra
- The Ocean's Giant Garbage Patch: Who's to Blame? (Matthew Locklin)
- Cellular automata (2 weeks)
- Sept. 3: Mitchell, Ch. 2, 10
- Sept. 11 - 13: Wolfram A New Kind of Science Ch. 8 (available from here)
- Sept. 18 - 20: Axelrod Agent-bsaed modeling as a bridge between disciplines
- Recommended supplementary video introducing Cellular Automata and the Game of Life
- Data analysis and scaling laws (3 weeks)
- Oct. 2 - 4: Review: Mitchell Ch. 15-17
- Oct. 2 - 4: Newman Ch. 8
- Oct. 2 - 8: OPTIONAL "Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility"
- Oct. 9 - 16: OPTIONAL: Power Law Distributions in Empirical Data Clauset, et al. (with Matlab code)
- Oct. 9 - 16: Moses and Forrest Beyond Biology
- Simulation underpinnings (1 week)
- Sept. 24 - 27: NO ASSIGNED READING
- Predator/Prey Models and Nonlinear Dynamics (1 weeks)
- Oct. 30: Review Mitchell Ch. 2
- Oct. 30: G. Flake The Computational Beauty of Nature Ch. 12 # - Nov. 1: M. Nowak and R. May ”The basic model of virus dynamics” Ch. 3
- Oct. 30: Newman, Ch. 17 pp. 627 - 641
- Genetic Algorithms and Optimization methods (2 weeks)
- Nov. 6: Mitchell Ch. 5, 6, Review 9, 18
- Nov. 8: G. Flake The Computational Beauty of Nature Ch. 20
- Nov. 12: M. A. Nowak and K. Sigmund "Bacterial game dynamics"
- Nov. 12: Kerr et al. "Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors"
- Optional: Y. Sato et al. "Chaos in learning a simple two-person game"
- Nov. 19: W. Weimer et al."Automatic program repair with evolutionary computation"