EPSRC Maths Course Wiki Page

This is a page for the participants of the EPSRC Course on Mathematics for the Science of Complex Systems (EP/D035120/1). The principal investigator is Prof. Jeffrey Johnson, The Open University. Co-investigator Robert MacKay, Warwick University.

Introductory Taught Course at University College London, 15 Oct - 26 Nov 2007

The course addresses the need for new postgraduate education in the mathematics of complex systems, accessible to students working in a wide variety of complex systems across the social, physical and engineering sciences. It teaches how mathematics works, and how mathematicians work, giving an overview of a wide range of mathematical concepts and results. It thus aims to enable students to apply mathematics in their own research, and work comfortably and creatively with mathematicians as part of a multidisciplinary team.

For more information and materials go to the course page.

Postgraduate School on Mathematics of Evolutionary Dynamics, Warwick, 11-13 Dec 2007

For more information go to the course information page

The lectures can be downloaded directly from here: evolutionary dynamics school lectures

References (books, articles and links to software)

Non-technical Philip Ball (2003) Critical mass: how one thing leads to another, London: Heinemann Albert-László Barabási (2002) Linked: the new science of networks, Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Steven Strogatz (2003) Sync: the emerging science of spontaneous order, New York: Hyperion Yaneer Bar-Yam (2005) Making Things Work: solving complex problems in a complex world, Necsi Knowledge Press

Middle Yaneer Bar-Yam (1997) Dynamics of Complex Systems, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Nino Boccara (2004) Modeling Complex Systems, New York ; London: Springer Claudius Gros (2008) Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A primer, New York ; London: Springer

Guido Galdarelli (2007) Scale-Free Netwroks: Complex web in nature and technology, Oxford University press

Steven Strogatz (1994) Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Reading, Mass.; Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Robert Hilborn (2000)Chaos and Nonlinear dynamics, Oxford University press

About mathematics and how mathematicians work Godfrey Harold Hardy (1940) A Mathematician's Apology, London: Cambridge University Press George Pólya (1990) How to solve it, Penguin Books

Other Kunihiko Kaneko (2006) Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology, Berlin: Springer

Software links TISEAN http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/TISEAN_2.1/index.html