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

Dillon Patel, Mechanical Engineering, Complex Systems 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.

Geographic divisions in online dating CSCS Professors Elizabeth Bruch and Mark Newman analyzed patterns of communication between millions of users of an online dating site and found distinct geographic regions of daters, including separate regions for North and South California, Texas, Florida, and Michigan.

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Recent News

An interview with HBES Lifetime Career Award Winner and retired CSCS affiliated Faculty member Bobbi Low.

From snake catching to the ‘leaky STEM pipeline’ The Human Behavior and Evolution Society talks to Bobbi Low after awarding her the ‘Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution’ for 2019.

MIDAS announces 2020 'Reproducibility Challenge'.

"Our goal is to highlight high-quality, reproducible work at the University of Michigan by collecting examples of best practices across diverse fields."

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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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CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO ANIMATION: PLANT-POLLINATOR SYSTEMS UNDER THREAT

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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