1990 Lectures In Complex Systems
, by Nadel,LynnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780201525755 | 0201525755
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/22/1991
Lynn Nadel is head of the Department of Psychology, professor of psychology, research cognitive scientist, and deputy director of the Center 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 Center 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 Center 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 Center for Physics, is on the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
Preface | |
Courses | p. 1 |
Modeling Complex Systems: Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Differential Equations, and Fokker-Planck Equations | p. 3 |
Complexity in Fluids | p. 53 |
Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems: Roles of Open Reactors | p. 99 |
Experimental Analysis of Disordered Systems | p. 125 |
Theory and Applications of Information-Based Complexity | p. 163 |
Some Learning Tasks from a Control Perspective | p. 195 |
Moving a Human or Robot Arm with Many Degrees of Freedom: Issues and Ideas | p. 225 |
Control of Tongue Movement Dynamics | p. 253 |
Models of Somatotopic Map Organization | p. 269 |
Sex and Evolution | p. 285 |
Seminars | p. 323 |
Dynamics of Neural Excitability | p. 325 |
Linking Structure and Function: Information Processing in the Brain | p. 343 |
Physiological Studies in Silico | p. 367 |
Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Delayed Feedback | p. 391 |
Functional Self-Organization in Complex Systems | p. 407 |
Random Grammers: A New Class of Models for Functional Integration and Transformation in the Biological, Neural, and Social Sciences | p. 427 |
Forecasting Chaotic Computational Ecosystems | p. 461 |
Singularities for Complex Hyperbolic Equations | p. 471 |
Student Contributions | p. 481 |
An Overview of the Minimum Description Length Principle | p. 483 |
Equations of Motion from Data with Hidden Variables | p. 487 |
Spectral Entropy and Self-Organization | p. 493 |
Asynchronous Parallel Simulated Annealing | p. 497 |
Dynamics of a Trapped Ion Driven by Stochastic Optical Processes | p. 509 |
Undecidability in an Adaptive System | p. 521 |
Bifurcations and Chaos in a Paradigm Equation for Delayed Mixed Feedback | p. 527 |
Asymptotic Periodicity in One-Dimensional Maps | p. 535 |
Theme and Variations: Spin Glasses, Neural Networks, and Prebiotic Evolution | p. 547 |
Index | p. 555 |
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