Center for the Study of Complex Systems | U-M LSA Center for the Study of Complex Systems

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.

Read the Fall 2018 LSA magazine story "Digital Dollars" by Elizabeth Wason - feat. Lynette Shaw. The author tapped in to the knowledge of Complex Systems' resident cryptocurrency expert - Dr. Lynette Shaw - to write on the status of bitcoin, blockchain and other cryptocurrency. Image artist: Julia Lubas, LSA

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.

Dr. Fernanda Valdovinos and the Early Career Network Scientists Complex Systems and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Fernanda Valdovinos establishes early career scientist evolutionary networks Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute. UM-SFI brings these "Reckless Ideas in Ecological Networks" to Ann Arbor in May for annual UM-SFI Symposium.

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Recent News

CSCS Core Faculty member Daniel Romero Receives Young Investigator Research Program Award

Assistant Professor Romero will be able to further his work on the topic of understanding how social systems react to unexpected events or shocks, with military award grant.

Complex Systems Faculty and Fellows are Cubing

But that should not come as a surprise, they are a multi-disciplinary bunch by nature (and requirement!) So it makes sense that one quarter of the group are recipients of M-Cubed grants.

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WELCOME TO THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

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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