To wind down the course, a couple of items
of business and a few reminders:
First, I want to encourage you to fill out
the course evaluation form.
The feedback that you give us is really
helpful for figuring out how to improve
the courses and the Complexity Explorer
site in general. And please,
even if you aren't planning
on earning a certificate or completing the
course in its entirety, your feedback is
still really valuable to us.
So, a few minutes of filling out the form
and giving us some sense
of what worked and what could be better
would be much appreciated.
Second, I want to acknowledge the funding
sources for this course.
The primary funding is from a gift to the
Santa Fe Institute, a grant to SFI, from
the John Templeton Foundation.
And it's also supported by user
donations. Thanks to all of you who have
donated to help keep these courses going.
I also want to mention an upcoming
Complexity Explorer course that, in many
ways, is a continuation of this course.
Liz Bradley, professor at University of
Colorado, will be teaching an advanced
level course on dynamical systems starting
in mid-September of 2014.
Her course will assume a knowledge of
calculus as a prerequisite and perhaps
some introductory physics, but most
importantly, it will presume a basic
working knowledge of at least one
programming language. You'll be writing
programs to do explorations of dynamical
systems.
The language you use doesn't matter, and
as long as you have access to familiarity
with at least one programming language and
can plot graphs and so on, like I've done
in this course, you'll have the background
for that.
I think many of you have wanted a more
mathematical, advanced, in-depth, and
data-driven treatment of dynamical
systems. And I definitely encourage you
to check out Liz's course.
As with all Complexity Explorer courses,
we'll announce that on Facebook and
Twitter. Since you're on the Complexity
Explorer website, we'll send out an e-mail
announcement about that as well.
The topics we covered in this course, I
hope were fun, fascinating, and give you
lots to think about, but it's just the
beginning.
I hope you keep exploring these ideas.
I think they're a lot of fun. I think
they're important and have a lot of
implications as well.
I'd encourage you to check out Liz's
course, check out some of the additional
readings and resources listed on the
website, and, above all, keep exploring
on your own.
I hope you enjoyed this class. I
certainly enjoyed teaching it. It was
a lot of fun. Take care. We'll see you
around.