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Course Syllabus
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Complex Systems, Newman
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- Description
- This course will introduce and develop the mathematical theory of networks, particularly social and technological networks, with applications to network-driven phenomena in the Internet, search engines, network resilience, epidemiology, and many other areas.
Topics to be covered will include experimental studies of social networks, the world wide web, information and biological networks; methods and computer algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of network data; graph theory; models of networks including random graphs and preferential attachment models; spectral methods and random matrix theory; maximum likelihood methods; percolation theory; network search.
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- University of Michigan
- Author
- Mark Newman
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- Statistical Physics, Networks
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- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/courses/2015/cscs535/
