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COVID-19 cartogram prepared by Mark Newman Size of contiguous 48 states are drawn in proportion to the number of reported cases of COVID-19 on April 4, 2020.

I enjoyed the material so much I switched my career plans to continue my study of complex systems. I declared a Complex Systems minor as a sophomore to compliment my major in Mathematics. I wanted to supplement my pure methodological work with applications and interdisciplinarity. -- Daniel Kaiser, Class of 2019

Dillon Patel, Mech-Eng, CSCS Minor, Class of 2018 "The CSCS curriculum allowed me to explore topics outside of my core engineering coursework, work with graduate students from multiple disciplines, and has already had a direct effect on my career... I feel I had unique perspective on how to apply modeling to real-world situations."

Irina Mondescu - Class of 2016 "Beyond college, my time at CSCS helped me stand out in interviews. I noticed that many companies were looking for people who could bring new perspectives and ideas to the team. My complex systems minor helped me stand out from students solely from business or finance backgrounds."

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.

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.

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Prof Scott Page prepares educational videos, website, teaching tools around COVID-19

Complex Systems Professor Scott Page has prepared a series of videos ‘Understanding Epidemics’ to help explain key concepts on COVID-19 reporting and analysis, also a website and related teaching materials.

Marisa Eisenberg modelling COVID-19 scenarios for State Health Department

Complex Systems faculty member Marisa Eisenberg and her team have developed a dashboard and are modelling COVID-19 scenarios for Michigan Department of Health

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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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This video was created for Complex Systems Professor Fernanda Valdovinos and Valdovinos Lab.

Valdovinos Lab studies the structure and dynamics of ecological networks at ecological and evolutionary scales, including their resilience to biodiversity loss, biological invasions, climate change, and exploitation by humans.

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