[UCI-Calit2] Statistical Methods for Complex Systems

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Statistical Methods for Complex Systems

with Cosma Shalizi, assistant professor, Carnegie Mellon University

 

A talk in the 4UC Complexity Video Conference Series

1:30 -3 p.m. Friday, May 16th 

 

UCI Anteater I&R, Room 3030
UCLA Powell Library, Room 285
UCSD Galbraith Hall, Room 260 

 

Abstract:

 

This talk is a summary of the tools people should use to study complex
systems, covering statistical learning and data-mining, time series
analysis, cellular automata, agent-based models, evaluation techniques
and simulation, information theory and complexity measures. 

 

Cosma Shalizi is assistant professor of statistics at Carnegie Mellon
University, and was previously a post-doc at Michigan's Center for Study
of the Complexity Sciences (CSCS) and at Santa Fe Institute. He is one
of the top young physicists in the complexity sciences. He co-authored,
with James Crutchfield, the CSSR "Algorithm for Building Markov Models
from Time Series," and is now on the external faculty at SFI. His
Notebooks are ranked as one of the nation's top 50 science blogs and are
full of information and reviews about the complexity sciences. There was
demand from our faculty this year for talks about methods in complexity
sciences. Many of these are reviewed in his chapter "Methods and
Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview," chapter 1 in Thomas
S. Deisboeck and J. Yasha Kresh (eds.), Complex Systems Science (NY:
Springer, 2006) (pp. 33-114). Version 4 of this chapter can be found at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0307015v4

 

Links to this pdf, the science blog, his home page, Wikipedia page and
PowerPoint slides in pdf will be posted to the site for downloading;
Beyond the eSeminar itself, wiki discussion links are provided at:

 

http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/University_of_California_Compl
exity_Events#HSC_Videoconference_Friday_May_16_2008_SHALIZI 

 

For background see: Development of roadmaps for research on complex
systems
<http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Selected_sections_of_the_road
map_for_complex_systems> 

 

For more information: Doug White, drwhite at orion.oac.uci.edu

 

 

 

 

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