CogS/CS 3150 - Nonlinear Systems and Chaos

Fall, 2011

This is the home page for CogS/CS 3150 - Nonlinear Systems and Chaos, Fall, 2011.
    Various things may be added here as the semester progresses, so be sure to check back . . .

     Syllabus

• I'm working on some "lecture notes" for this class . . . A snapshot is available here:
  
          Nonlinear-Systems.pdf (as of 2011-11-7)
  

• The midterm (review) . . .
  

• Here is a link to the "slinky" model in NetLogo:
  
          slinky

• Here is some software for exploring chaos, including bifurcation diagrams:
  
          Chaos explorer by Brian Davies

• Here is a link to Brian Davies' home page for this, and related material:
  
          Chaos page by Brian Davies

• Here is a link to an interview with Doyne Farmer (of the Santa Fe Institute)
  about a modeling / simulation project on the economy (focusing right now on the housing market),
  with some discussion of nonlinearity:
  
          Doyne Farmer interview
  

• The Lorenz Attractor Exists (2000 article from Nature by Ian Stewart)
  

• The Lorenz Attractor (a .gif)
  

• Computational Beauty of Nature homepage (follow links to java applets to explore . . .)
  

• This is a little Mandelbrot set applet::
  
          Mandelbrot Applet by Ed Karrels, March, 1998