Complexity Sciences Center
Researching Complex Systems: The Center currently is home to over 30 researchers from graduate students to faculty who are developing theory and applications of complex systems. Research themes include: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks, Physics of Information and Novel Computation, Evolutionary Innovation and Biological Computation, and Individual Learning and Collective Cognition.
Welcome
Patterns in Complex Systems:
Simple rules lead to unpredictable behavior; multi-component systems spontaneously organize into macroscopic structures. The emergence of chaos and order are the hallmarks of natural and designed systems. The Complexity Sciences Center seeks to discover the common principles of emergence and use them to understand the physical, biological, and social worlds.
Teaching Complex Systems: The Center orchestrates a multidisciplinary teaching program for students in physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, and engineering. We are assembling a graduate specialization in the Physics of Complex Systems, currently including courses in the Physics of Information, Structure and Dynamics of Networks, Novel Computation, Computational Science Methods, Modeling Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, and Critical Phenomena and Scaling. Planned course topics include Cellular Automata, Pattern Formation and Self-Organization, Causal Inference, and Quantum Computational Mechanics.
Teach Depth, Research Breadth: The Complexity Sciences Center is creating a new kind of scientific research community within a university teaching environment. We emphasize transdisciplinary innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration in pursuit of common principles that arise in natural, built, and social systems.
Complexity Sciences Center
1118 Mathematical Sciences Building
University of California at Davis
530-752-0600