Nonlinear Physics: Modeling Chaos & Complexity

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@cse.ucdavis.edu; http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Spring 2010
WWW: http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/nlp/

Lecture 8: From determinism to stochasticity—Probability Theory of Dynamical Systems

Reading: Lecture Notes.
Topics:

  1. Review last lecture.
  2. Probability theory review
  3. Dynamical evolution of distributions
  4. Invariant measures
  5. Examples

Reading for next meeting: None.