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Week | Date | #(#) | Topic | Outline | Slides | Video | ||||
10 | 4 Apr | 1(21) | Overview—What's Wrong with Information Theory? | HTML |
PDF
HTML |
POCI Channel | CMR articles RURO (Introduction), CAO, & ROIC. | HW 10 assigned | Properties of Joint Distributions | |
6 Apr | 2(22) | The Learning Channel | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles BOAC & CMPPSS (first sections). | ||||
11 | 11 Apr | 3(23) | ε-Machine Reconstruction | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | HW 11 assigned, HW 10 due | Parse Trees and Future Morphs | |
13 Apr | 4(24) | ε-Machine Optimalities | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article CMPPSS. | ||||
12 | 18 Apr | 5(25) | Measures of Structural Complexity | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles CMPPSS and RURO. | HW 12 assigned, HW 11 due | Parse Trees and Future Morphs | |
20 Apr | 6(26) | Information Diagrams for Processes | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles TBA, PRATISP, IACP. | ||||
13 | 25 Apr | 7(27) | States of States of Knowledge I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles TBA and Yeung. | HW 13 Assigned | Mixed State Presentations | |
27 Apr | 8(28) | States of States of Knowledge II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles TBA, PRATISP, IACP. | ||||
14 | 2 May | 9(29) | Directional Computational Mechanics I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles TBA and Yeung. | HW 14 Assigned | Bidirectional Processes & Machines | |
4 May | 10(30) | Directional Computational Mechanics II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles TBA, PRATISP, IACP. | ||||
15 | 9 May | 11(31) | Length Scales in Complex Time Series: Markov & Cryptic Orders | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles MRS and SAC. | HW 15 Assigned
Last one! |
Markov Cryptic Information | Ryan James |
11 May | 12(32) | Role of the Future in Analyzing Chaotic Dynamical Systems | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles Anatomy and CFR. | Ryan James | |||
16 | 16 May | 13(33) | Bayesian Inference for Known Model Structures | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles IMC and OIMNC. | Project! | Lab 1: Bayesian Inference for Epsilon-machines | Chris Strelioff |
18 May | 14(34) | Bayesian Structural Inference | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article BSI. | Project! | Lab 2: Bayesian Inference for Epsilon-machines | Chris Strelioff | |
17 | 23 May | 1A(41) | Spectral Decomposition of Intrinsic Computation I | HTML | PDF (2015) | POCI Channel | CMR article EC. | Project! | Lab 1: Canonical Matrix Forms and Process Architecture, Lab 2: Spectral Decompositions of Complexity | Paul Riechers |
25 May | 1B(42) | Spectral Decomposition of Intrinsic Computation II | HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article EC. | Project! | Lab 3: Spectral Decomposition of Intrinsic Computation | Paul Riechers | ||
18 | 30 May | 37a | Information Thermodynamics, Part I | HTML | PDF (2020) | POCI Channel | CMR article IRatchet. | Project! | Alec Boyd | |
1 June | 37b | Information Thermodynamics, Part II | HTML | PDF (2018) | POCI Channel | CMR article IRatchet. | Project! | Alec Boyd | ||
19 | 6 June | Project Presentations I | Schedule | Students | ||||||
8 June | Project Presentations II | Schedule | Students | |||||||
20 | 15 June | Project Reports Due: End of Day | Email to chaos@ucdavis.edu | |||||||
At Your Leisure | Afterword | What We Didn't Cover: The Present and Future | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | |||||
At Your Leisure | 2A(50) | Quantum Complexity I | HTML | PDF HTML 2016 | Stream Download | CMR articles OQS and EQC. | John Mahoney | |||
At Your Leisure | 2B(51) | Quantum Complexity II | HTML | PDF HTML 2016 | Stream Download | CMR articles OQS and EQC. | John Mahoney | |||
At Your Leisure | 35 | Power Spectra and ε-Machine Spectral Reconstruction | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles BTFM1 and BTFM2. | Dowman Varn | |||
At Your Leisure | 36 | Intrinsic Computation in Complex Materials | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles BTFM1 and BTFM2. | Dowman Varn |
Classes | Lectures | Readings | Homeworks | Labs | Comments | |||||
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Week | Date | # | Topic | Outline | Slides | Video | ||||
0 | 10 Jan | 1 | Overview | HTML | PDF HTML (2022) | POCI Channel | Chaos, Scientific American, and Odds, Stanislaw Lem. | HW 0 Assigned | HW Guidelines, Typesetting Math | |
12 Jan | 2 | The Big Picture | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Chaps. 1 & 2; reference materials here and Python tutorials. | ||||
1 | 17 Jan | 3 | Example Dynamical Systems | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Secs. 5.0-5.2, 6.0-6.4, 7.0-7.3, and 9.0-9.4. |
HW 0 due, HW 1 Assigned | Prep Lab 1, Linear Algebra and ODEs, Favorite Flows | |
19 Jan | 4 | The Big, Big Picture I | HTML |
PDF
HTML
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POCI Channel | NDAC Chapter 3. | ||||
2 | 24 Jan | 5 | The Big, Big Picture II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Chapter 8 and Sec. 10.0-10.4. |
HW 1 due, HW 2 Assigned | Prep Lab 2, Cellular Automata | |
26 Jan | 6 | Mechanisms of Chaos—Stable Instability | HTML |
PDF
HTML
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POCI Channel | NDAC Secs. 12.0-12.3, 9.3, and 10.5. | ||||
3 | 31 Jan | 7 | Example Chaotic Maps (that you can analyze) | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Sections 10.5-10.7. | HW 2 due, HW 3 Assigned |
Prep Lab 3 | |
2 Feb | 8 | Pattern Formation I: Deterministic
(Part I, Cellular Automata) |
HTML |
PDF
HTML
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POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | ||||
4 | 7 Feb | 9 | Pattern Formation I: Deterministic
(Part II, Map Lattices) |
See above. | See above. | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | HW 3 due, HW 4 Assigned |
Prep Lab 4, 1D Map Evolution of Distributions, One- and Two-Dimensional Maps | |
9 Feb | 10 | Probability Theory of Dynamical Systems | HTML |
PDF
HTML
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POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | ||||
5 | 14 Feb | 11 | Stochastic Processes | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | HW 4 due, Take-home Midterm Exam on CMPy Cloud |
Symbolic Dynamics and Partitions Lab | |
16 Feb | 12 | Measurement Theory I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides and CMR Alice (Gilmore/Lefranc Chap. 2). | ||||
6 | 21 Feb | 13 | Measurement Theory II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides and CMR Alice (Gilmore/Lefranc Chap. 2). | Midterm due, HW 6 Assigned |
Processes, Word Distributions, and Models; Information Theory and Communication Channels | |
23 Feb | 14 | Entropies | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | EIT Chapters 1 and 2. | ||||
7 | 28 Feb | 15 | Information in Processes I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | EIT Sections 5.1-5.4 and 7.1-7.7. | HW 6 due, HW 7 Assigned |
Multivariate Information Lab and Information in Processes Lab I | |
2 Mar | 16 | Information in Processes II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | EIT Chapter 4 and CMR MET. | ||||
8 | 7 Mar | 17 | Memory in Processes I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article RURO. | HW 7 due, HW 8 Assigned |
Information in Processes Lab 2 | |
9 Mar | 18 | Memory in Processes II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article RURO. | ||||
9 | 14 Mar | 19 | Information Measures and Information Diagrams | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article Yeung. | HW 8 due, Final Exam (HW 9) Assigned |
Information Diagrams Lab | |
16 Mar | 20 | Anatomy of a Bit | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article Anatomy. |