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

A New Course in Complex Systems! Offered this fall. Applications of Entropy and Information in the Natural Sciences. The new course will count toward the Complex Systems Minor or the Complex Systems Certificate.

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.

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.

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

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

Seventh Floor Weiser - Working Toward Sustainability!

The combined forces on 7th floor Weiser (CS³BYC) have worked together to achieve 'Platinum' status in Office Sustainability! The work will continue (we hope to one day achieve 'Dirt' status).

"Reckless Ideas" Recordings now Available

Recordings from the UM-SFI Annual Symposium "Reckless Ideas in Ecological Networks" that took place May 9, 2019 - are now available for viewing on our website.

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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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