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CSCS moves to Weiser Hall Complex Systems Headquarters moves from West Hall to the 7th floor of the newly renovated Weiser Building. Southwest corner view from 7th floor looking down to 6th floor Commons

Centrality Measures Developed by T. Martin and M. Newman Illustration of a new centrality measure for finding the most important nodes in a network, overcoming some of the problems of previous measures.

What do we do at CSCS? Our Center studies systems like economies, the brain, ecosystems, political systems, social networks, and the Internet that consist of many interacting parts, which in turn produce collective behaviors that exceed the capabilities of the constituent parts.

Guess the Weight of the Cow Dr. Scott E Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics illustrates that it is mathematically true that "diversity creates better outcomes for everybody" as outlined in the Fall LSA magazine article entitled "The Case for Diversity".

2016 Election Results As he has for the past several national elections, Professor Mark E Newman uses cartograms to interpret 2016 election results.

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CSCS MOVES TO WEISER HALL

It’s happening all right! Complex Systems HQ is relocating about 100 yards to the North-East. The move from the third floor of West Hall to the 7th floor of the new Weiser Building is official as of August 7, 2017.

Jon Atwell finishing and heading to Northwestern University

**Date/Time/Location Change** Complex Systems IGERT fellow Jon Atwell defends his dissertation "The Role of Socially Propinquent Information in Self-Organization in Society" July 17, 1:30 pm, 4147 LSA Building, 500 S. State. Open to the public.

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The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary program in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Our mission is to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems.

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