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COGS 104: Complex Adaptive Systems

Units: 4

Introduction to the study of complex phenomena using dynamical computer simulations, which exhibit emergent properties, sensitivity to initial conditions, fractal structure, phase transitions in random graphs, and shifts from stability to meta-stability to chaos. Matlab projects include: probability games, neural networks, the Lorenz attractor, the logistic map, the Mandelbrot set.

Course Details
Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

Conjoined with: COGS 204
Discussion and Laboratory included
Normal Letter Grade only

GE Requirements
  • Upper Division: Crossroads
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Natural Science
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Social Science
  • Badge: Scientific Method
  • Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
  • Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge

Requisites and Restrictions
Prerequisite Courses: COGS 001
Instructor Permission Required: No


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