An excellent series presenting top lecturers from the best institute for complex systems. Topics covered include: stochastic processes; fluid flow; pattern formation; information-based complexity; motor system problems; and the nature of adaptive change. Computer science, economics and business, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and linguistics all enter into this diverse field. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Section 1: Courses
1. Modeling Complex Systems: Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Differential Equations, and Fokker-Planck Equations
2. Complexity in Fluids
3. Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems: Roles of Open Reactors
4. Experimental Analysis of Disordered Systems
5. Theory and Applications of Information-Based Complexity
6. Some Learning Tasks from a Control Perspective
7. Moving a Human or Robot Arm with Many Degrees of Freedom: Issues and Ideas
8. Control of Tongue Movement Dynamics
9. Models of Somatotopic Map Organization
10. Sex and Evolution Section 2: Seminars
11. Dynamics of Neural Excitability
12. Linking Structure and Function: Information Processing in the Brain
13. Physiological Studies in Silico
14. Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Delayed Feedback
15. Functional Self-Organization in Complex Systems
16. Random Grammers: A New Class of Models for Functional Integration and Transformation in the Biological, Neural, and Social Sciences
17. Forecasting Chaotic Computational Ecosystems
18. Singularities for Complex Hyperbolic Equations Section 3: Student Contributions
19. An Overview of the Minimum Description Length Principle
20. Equations of Motion from Data with Hidden Variables
21. Spectral Entropy and Self-Organization
22. Asynchronous Parallel Simulated Annealing
23. Dynamics of a Trapped Ion Driven by Stochastic Optical Processes
24. Undecidability in an Adaptive System
25. Bifurcations and Chaos in a Paradigm Equation for Delayed Mixed Feedback
26. Asymptotic Periodicity in One-Dimensional Maps
27. Theme and Variations: Spin Glasses, Neural Networks, and Prebiotic Evolution
Lynn Nadel is head of the Department of Psychology, professor of psychology, research cognitive scientist, and deputy director of the centre for the Study of Complex Systems, all at the University of Arizona. Dr. Nadel, with coeditor Dr. Stein, organized the 1993 Summer School on Complex Systems. Daniel L. Stein is head of the Department of Physics and professor of Physics at the University of Arizona and external associate professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Stein organized the 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 Summer Schools on Complex Systems, is a trustee for the Aspen centre for Physics, is on the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Lynn Nadel is head of the Department of Psychology, professor of psychology, research cognitive scientist, and deputy director of the centre for the Study of Complex Systems, all at the University of Arizona. Dr. Nadel, with coeditor Dr. Stein, organized the 1993 Summer School on Complex Systems. Daniel L. Stein is head of the Department of Physics and professor of Physics at the University of Arizona and external associate professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Stein organized the 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993 Summer Schools on Complex Systems, is a trustee for the Aspen centre for Physics, is on the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
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