88-126 Freshman Seminar: Modeling Complex Systems

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Most of the major issues confronting humanitysuch as climate change, financial collapse, ecosystem survival, terrorism, and disease epidemicsare the result of complex systems where the interactions of the pieces of the system create a whole that is rather different than any of its parts. Unfortunately, traditional scientific methods that focus on reducing systems to their parts and then analyzing each part provide little insight into such systems. This seminar explores the behavior of complex systems as well as how to model and understand them using both traditional tools and computerbased approaches.

Prerequisites: none listed

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