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the Omidyar selection process this year. 

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Announcing SFI's new free online courses in Complex Systems

Syllabus - Announcement - (SFI's video collection

See: 5,000 students - Where From?

Beginning in early 2013, SFI will offer a series of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in complex systems science.

The first course, "Introduction to Complexity," will be an accessible introduction to the field, with no pre-requisites and no course fees. It is free and open to anyone.

You don't need a science or math background to take this introductory course," says SFI External Professor Melanie Mitchell, the course's instructor." It simply requires an interest in the field and the willingness to participate in a hands-on approach to the subject."

In this eleven-week course, participants will learn about the tools used by complex systems scientists to understand, and sometimes to control, complex systems. "Topics include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks."

"You’ll also get a sense of how these topics fit together to help explain how complexity arises and evolves in nature, society, and technology," says Mitchell, an SFI External Professor, and author of the award-winning book Complexity: A Guided Tour

The course,"Introduction to Complexity," begins February 4, 2013.

For more information, please visit the course website. Quick Facts 

SFI MOOC "Introduction to Complexity" Video

Course Start Date: January 28, 2013

Course length: 11 weeks

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Instructor: Professor Melanie Mitchell

Syllabus: HERE


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Douglas R. White Acknowledgements to SFI and SFI colleagues

Santa Fe Institute citations

1997 Lilyan A. Brudner & Douglas R. White. Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories. Theory and Society 25(2):161-208.

2001 Douglas R. White & Frank Harary. The Cohesiveness of Blocks in Social Networks: Node Connectivity and Conditional Density. Sociological Methodology 2001 (31):305-359.

2001 Douglas R. White and Mark E. J. Newman. Fast Approximation Algorithms for Finding Node-Independent Paths in Networks. Social Science Research Network. Ideas. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 01-07-035

2003 James Moody, Douglas R. White. Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups. American Sociological Review 68(1):1-25.

2004 Douglas R. White, Walter W. Powell, J. Owen-Smith, James Moody. Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-dynamics, scale and cohesive embeddings. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 10(1):95-117.

2005 Douglas R. White & Ulla Johansen. Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan. Paperback’06. Boston: Lexington Press/AltaMira.

2006 Douglas R. White, Nataša Kejžar, Constantino Tsallis, Doyne Farmer, and Scott White. A Generative Model for Feedback Networks. Physical Review E, 016119 11pp.

2007 Jörg Reichardt, Douglas R. White. Role Models for Complex Networks European Physical Journal B 60: 217-224.

2008 Douglas R. White, Laurent Tambayong, and Nataša Kejžar. Oscillatory dynamics of city-size distributions in world historical systems. Chapter 9, In, G. Modelski, T. Devezas and W. Thompson, eds. Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change (Rethinking Globalizations). pp. 190-225. London: Routledge

2009 Douglas R. White. Dynamics of Human Behavior (Cohesion and Resistance). Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

2009 Douglas R. White. Innovation in the Context of Networks, Hierarchies, and Cohesion. Chapter 5 in, Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change, pp. 153-193. D.Lane, D.Pumain, S. van der Leeuw and G.West (eds). Berlin: Springer (Methodos series).

2009 Frank Schweitzer, Didier Sornette, A. Vespignani, G. Fagiolo, F. Vega-Redondo, D. R. White. Economic Networks: What do we know and what do we need to know? Advances in Complex Systems 12(4-5): 407–422.

2011 Douglas R. White. Kinship, Class, and Community. Chapter 10, pp. 129-147: In, John C. Scott and Peter Carrington, Eds., Sage Handbook of Social Networks.

2011 Douglas R. White. Social Networks, Cognition and Culture. Chapter 18, Pp. 331-354, Blackwell Companion to Handbook of Cognitive Anthropology, Eds. David Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor De Munch, and Michael Fischer

2011 Douglas R. White, Ren Feng, Giorgio Gosti, B. Tolga Oztan. Easy R scripts for Two-Stage Least Squares, Instruments, Inferential Statistics and Latent Variables. For submission to Sociological Methodology 2013.

2012 Douglas R. White. Networks and Globalization Policies. Chapter 11 pp. 189-218 In, Balázs Vedres, and Marco Scotti (editors). Networks in Social Policy Problems. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

2013 (in press) Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman. The reticular approach to kinship. Chapter 5, special issue: Penser la Parenté: Méthodes, modèles, debates, Cahier de l’Homme. Issue editors Klaus Hamberger, François Hèran, and Michael Houseman.

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Courses in complex systems

Free Online Courses in complex systems

SFI twittering

News: Cris Moore and External Professor Stephan Mertens have a new book that "provides a lucid, playful overview of computational complexity, starting with why the P vs. NP problem is so fundamental, and why it is so hard to resolve."

2011

From: "Janet Rubenstein" <janet@santafe.edu> Date: Mon, January 31, 2011 1:29 pm To: drwhite@uci.edu Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file | View Message Details | View as HTML

Hi the address you are staying in is 1300 Calle Giraso Seeing as you will be working in the gate house I am assuming I can give you all alternate desks in the pods. Invitations on the way. best, janet Janet Rubenstein Santa Fe Institute Visitor/Housing Coordinator janet@santafe.edu

General

Wapedia:Santa Fe Institute

Wikipedia:Complex systems

Official SFI site

SFI blog: Simplicity and Complexity

References

SFI References for Douglas R. White

Updates

Doug's pages

[http://www.santafe.edu/search/results/?query=The+Cohesiveness+of+Blocks+in+Social+Networks%3A+Node+Connectivity+and+Conditional+Density&category=workingpapers

Social Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups Working Paper James Moody, Douglas White While questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, no clear definition of cohesion exists. We present a definition of structural cohesion based on network connectivity that ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/00-08-049.pdf

The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength, and Network Topology Working Paper Douglas White, Michael Houseman A searchable small world (SSW) is a (large) network in which ties are locally clustered, average interpoint distance is low, and a decentralized search algorithm assigned to pass messages from ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/02-10-055.pdf

Community Structure in Social and Biological Networks Working Paper Michelle Girvan, M. Newman A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the worldwide web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/01-12-077.pdf

Dynamics of Human Behavior Working Paper Douglas White I review network aspects of human dynamics that link macro-historical to micro-sociological and evolutionary processes. The ability to bond in communities of varying spatial scales is a special property of ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/08-09-042.pdf

The Visible Hand in a Production-Chain Market: A Market Equilibrium from Network Analytical Perspective Working Paper Tsutomu Nakano, Douglas White We analyze general price equilibrium mechanisms of production-chain markets, comparing the producer market model proposed by Harrison White with hypothesized network effects on pricing that emerge from empirical analysis of ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/06-05-015.pdf Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences Working Paper

Walter Powell, Douglas White, Kenneth Koput, Jason Owen-Smith We develop and test four alternative logics of attachment - - accumulative advantage, homophily, follow-the-trend, and multiconnectivity - - to account for the development of interorganizational collaboration in the field ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/03-02-004.pdf

Douglas + White working papers

Economic Networks: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know? Working Paper Frank Schweitzer, Giorgio Fagiolo, Didier Sornette, Fernando Vega-Redondo, Douglas White We examine the emergent field of economic networks and explore its ability to shed light on the global and volatile economy where credit, ownership, innovation, investment, and virtually every other ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/09-09-038.pdf

Role Models for Complex Networks Working Paper Jörg Reichardt, Douglas White We present a framework for automatically decomposing ("block-modeling) the functional classes of agents within a complex network. These classes are represented by the nodes of an image graph ("block model) ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/07-12-045.pdf

Dates and Rates: Temporal Resolution in the Deep Time Stratigraphic Record Working Paper Douglas Erwin The level of achievable stratigraphic resolution determines the nature of the ecological, evolutionary and geological questions for which a reasonable answer may be expected. Advances in correlation techniques and in ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/05-07-032.pdf

The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength, and Network Topology Working Paper Douglas White, Michael Houseman A searchable small world (SSW) is a (large) network in which ties are locally clustered, average interpoint distance is low, and a decentralized search algorithm assigned to pass messages from ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/02-10-055.pdf

The Visible Hand in a Production-Chain Market: A Market Equilibrium from Network Analytical Perspective Working Paper Tsutomu Nakano, Douglas White We analyze general price equilibrium mechanisms of production-chain markets, comparing the producer market model proposed by Harrison White with hypothesized network effects on pricing that emerge from empirical analysis of ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/06-05-015.pdf

A Single-Blind Controlled Competition Among Tests for Nonlinearity and Chaos Working Paper William Barnett, A. Gallant, Melvin Hinich, Jochen Jungeilges, Daniel Kaplan Interest has been growing in testing for nonlinearity or chaos in economic data, but much controversy has arisen about the available results. This paper explores the reasons for these empirical ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/97-02-011.pdf

Networks, Fields, and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings Working Paper Douglas White, Jason Owen-Smith, James Moody, Walter Powell Social action is situated in fields that are simultaneously composed of interpersonal ties and relations among organizations, which are both usefully characterized as social networks. We introduce a novel approach ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/04-03-009.pdf

Social Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups Working Paper James Moody, Douglas White While questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, no clear definition of cohesion exists. We present a definition of structural cohesion based on network connectivity that ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/00-08-049.pdf

Dynamics of Human Behavior Working Paper Douglas White I review network aspects of human dynamics that link macro-historical to micro-sociological and evolutionary processes. The ability to bond in communities of varying spatial scales is a special property of ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/08-09-042.pdf

A Generative Model for Feedback Networks Working Paper Douglas White, Natasa Kejzar, Constantino Tsallis, J. Farmer, Scott White We investigate a simple generative model for network formation. The model is designed to describe the growth of networks of kinship, trading, corporate alliances, or autocatalytic chemical reactions, where feedback ... http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/05-08-034.pdf

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