Intro to Complex Systems Models & Methods

2015 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods

Professor Daniel Martin Katz (Illinois Tech – Chi Kent)
Professor Michael J. Bommarito  (UMich CSCS)

(Please Note Slide Links are Live Starting After Class)

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KATZ  LECTURE + LAB  SLIDES FOR THE 2015 COURSE (Starts 7.20.15)

(0)  Syllabus for the Lecture (PDF)

WEEK 1

(1) Slides from Lab Session 1 – Introduction to Complex Systems (M 7.20.15)

(2)  Slides from Lecture 1 – Introduction to Complex Systems (Tu 7.21.15)

(3) Slides from Lab Session 2 – Introduction to Complex Systems (Tu 7.21.15)

(4)  Slides from Lecture 2 – Introduction to Complex Systems (W 7.22.15)

(5) Slides from Lab Session 3 – Introduction to Complex Systems (W 7.22.15)

(6)  Slides from Lecture 3 – Introduction to Complex Systems (Th 7.23.15)

(7a) Slides from Lab Session 4 – Introduction to Complex Systems (Th 7.23.15)

(7b) Mapping the Schelling Segregation Model (Download + Print)

(8)  Slides from Lecture 4 – Introduction to Complex Systems (F 7.24.15)

(9) Slides from Lab Session 5 – Introduction to Complex Systems (F 7.24.15)

(10) Evolution of Cooperation on a Social Network (By Greg Todd Jones)

Download Model
Download Paper

WEEK 2

(11) Slides from Lecture 5 – Introduction to Complex Systems (M 7.27.15)

(12) Bonus Talks for Your Consideration

Steve Strogatz on Sync

Benoît B. Mandelbrot on the Art of Roughness

The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations

How Complexity Leads to Simplicity

I Am My Connectome

(13) Assignment: Schelling Segregation Model in Camouflage                   (Entries Are Now Closed)

Goal = Try to Match This!

Winners
Michelle Phillips
UC-Davis
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Laila Wahedi
Georgetown University
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First Runners Up
Calla M Hummel
University of Texas
Hitomu Kotani
Kyoto University

(14) Slides from Lab Session 6 – Introduction to Complex Systems (M 7.27.15)

Fire Automation Part 1
Fire Automation Part 2

(15) Slides from Lecture 6 – Introduction to Complex Systems (Tu 7.28.15)

(16) Slides from Lab Sessions 7,8 – Introduction to Complex Systems
(Tu 7.28.15, W 7.29.15)

(17)  An Agent-Based Model of Indirect Minority Influence on Social Change
By Jiin Jung** and Aaron Bramson

http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch064
**Jiin is an alumni of this ICPSR Complex Systems Summer Course

 

(18) 1000+  Existing Netlogo Models (Modeling Commons)

(19) Slides from Lecture 7  – Intro to Complex Systems (W 7.29.15)

(20) Slides from Lab Session 9 – Introduction to Complex Systems
(Th 7.30.15)

(21) Slides from Lecture 8/9 – Introduction to Complex Systems
(Th 7.30.15)(F 7.31.15)

(22) Bonus : Computational Models of Infectious Disease Transmission

Download Netlogo SIR Timing Tutorial
Download SIR Example Netlogo Model
Python Code for SIR Model from Github

(23) Bonus: Modeling with Data – SIR and Pattern Oriented Modeling

(24) Web Scraping Module