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Dr. Fernanda Valdovinos and the Early Career Network Scientists 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.

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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Fernanda Valdovinos and the Early Career Scientists working on Ecological Networks

Professor Valdovinos establishes a Sante Fe Institute Working Group - gathering together a brain trust of early career scientists who share the same passion.

Congrats to Complex Systems Affiliated Faculty Member Pedro Lowenstein for being named AAAS Fellow

Dr. Lowenstein was one of 15 Faculty members at the University of Michigan just named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows.

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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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Complex Systems 270 Agent-Based Modeling Poster Competition

Judges Needed! Come, learn, eat pizza, vote.

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