Honoursmodule: Complexity: Can it be Simplified?
To address today’s urgent and most complex societal challenges such as global warming, social unrest, inequality, and polarization, we need to understand the concept of complexity. Complex systems consist of lots of components interacting in non-trivial ways, leading to sophisticated and sometimes surprising emergent behaviors: “the whole is more than the sum of the parts”. Some complex systems respond and adapt to changes in their environment.
In this course, you will learn the state-of-the-art thinking about complexity, guided by the world’s leading experts who will come to share their insights with you – on subjects such as ecosystems and evolution, the global climate, stock markets, epidemics, criminal, neural, and social networks. You will learn to apply common tools and methods to study complex systems, even creating some yourself, leading to a better understanding of how complexity thinking can address our world’s most pressing problems.
Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Johan Bollen
Timetable
All lectures will take place on-campus and we assume you can be physically present during the scheduled hours. You can find the timetable on Datanose.
Registration
Registration is possible for students participating in an Honours program. The registration period for the Honours courses will be from Friday, November 28, 10:00 am to Tuesday, December 2, 11:59 pm. You can register through the online registration form that will appear on Honoursmodules IIS. (registration is NOT through SIS)
Please note: Placement is not guaranteed if you register after December 2, so make sure you register on time. You will hear which course(s) you are registered for before December 31.
For questions about registration, please contact us at: Honours-iis@uva.nl
- Mode
- Honours programme
- Credits
- 6 ECTS,
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- February