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The Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems Reading Group is for graduate students, post-docs, and interested researchers who are doing research or have an interest in complex systems. Complex Systems is an inherently multidisciplinary approach and so this group is open to interested parties in any discipline. This group will meet on a regular basis (typically every 2 weeks) to discuss research papers on a wide variety of topics related to complex systems including but not limited to: agent-based modeling, social networks, nonlinear dynamics, cellular automata, artificial life, global systems, robustness, scaling laws, social dynamics, markets, communication, human language, behavior, biological computation, cognitive neuroscience, and adaptive computation.

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, November 3, 5-7 PM
• Location: Chambers Hall (Lower level), 600 Foster Street, Evanston
• Topic: Foundational papers on complex systems -Information theory-
• Readings:
  • Shannon, C.E. 1948. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal 27:379-423 623-656. http://crypto.nknu.edu.tw/crypto/shannon1948.pdf
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  • Kolmogorov, A.N. 1965. Three Approaches to the Quantitative Definition of Information. Problems of Information and Transmission 1 (1):1-7. Scanned Copy

• Food and beverages sponsored by NICO

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Topics: Information Theory, Statistical Regression, Neural Networks, ABMs, Networks, Economics and Networks, Economic Self-Organization, Social Networks, Shannon's Information Theory