Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

CSSS 2023

Lead instructor: Dave Feldman

This course is no longer in session.

8.1 Preparation » Melanie Mitchell's Introduction to Complexity

We strongly recommend that you look at Melanie Mitchell's online course, Introduction to Complexity, prior to the start of Summer School.

It is free to enroll, which will allow you to submit assignments. The assignments tend to be computation-based. Alternatively, you may chose to watch selected topics on YouTube without enrolling.

The course will introduce you to many of the topics covered in Summer School, in addition to many of the faculty. This will allow you to ask more informed questions to the faculty this summer, and enrich your overall experience.

We hope that by the start of Summer School, you will be familiar with all of these topics:

  • properties of complex sytems
  • agent-based models
  • nonlinear dynamics & chaos
  • information theory
  • evolution & genetic algorithms
  • networks
  • power laws & scaling