Systems Core Courses

Networks: Insights into Complex Systems and Social Structures - Mark Newman

Explore how network analysis reveals community leaders, predicts voting patterns, and improves transportation efficiency. Discover insights from network science across various domains.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Intelligent Systems, Music, and Social Engineering - InterPlanetary Festival Day 2

Explore intelligent systems, social engineering, and visualization with expert panels, plus a unique theremin concert. Dive into cutting-edge topics with leading thinkers and innovators.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Evolution and Development of the Earliest Land Plant Rooting Systems

Explore the evolution of plant rooting systems, from ancient unicellular rhizoids to complex multicellular structures, and their impact on Earth's climate and ecosystems over 400 million years.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tokens and Complex Systems - Part 2

Explore the intersection of complex systems and blockchain technology, including AI DAOs, token design, and agent-based simulations for innovative ecosystem development.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Complex Adaptive Systems and the Depopulation of Mesa Verde

Explore how complex adaptive systems reveal factors behind Mesa Verde's depopulation, including resource overuse, high population density, and environmental vulnerabilities in the face of prolonged droughts.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Complexity of Economics - Exploring Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems

Explore the intersection of complexity science and economics with experts discussing agent-based modeling, behavioral economics, and machine learning to gain insights into real-world economic systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Diverse Intelligence - From Human Minds to Complex Systems

Exploring diverse forms of intelligence: from human evolution to complex systems and future discoveries. Experts discuss biological, artificial, and collective intelligence across species and technologies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Statue in the Stone: How Dynamical Systems Discover Environmental Patterns

Explores how complex systems adapt to environmental patterns, favoring stable configurations that match external forces. Illustrates with toy models and swarm-robotics experiment.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reverse Engineering Complexity - Dynamics, Architecture, and Robustness in Complex Systems

Explore robustness, tradeoffs, and feedback in complex systems through computational models. Discover applications in earthquakes, wildfires, biomaterials, infectious diseases, and more, emphasizing dynamics, architecture, and adaptation.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Engineering Crypto-Economies Through the Lens of Complex Systems

Explore cryptoeconomics through complex systems, covering agent-based modeling, game theory, and optimization. Includes live demo of DAO simulation based on Ising model in statistical mechanics.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Intelligent Systems

Explore diverse perspectives on intelligence, from individual to collective, natural to artificial. Delve into cultural transmission, machine learning, empathy for AI, and the ethical implications of evolving technological systems.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tokens and Complex Systems - Part 1

Explore complex systems, tokenized ecosystems, and AI DAOs. Learn how blockchains function as life forms and democratize AI access. Discover evolutionary algorithms in token design and agent-based systems for simulation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems

Explore cultural evolution in music and writing systems, examining how material constraints and cognitive factors shape the development of rhythms and letter forms across societies and time.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Thermodynamics of Far From Equilibrium Systems, Biochemistry, and Life in a Warming World

Explores new thermodynamic approaches to biological temperature responses, challenging traditional enzyme stability theories and offering insights into optimum temperatures for biochemical reactions and ecological impacts.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Framework for Machine Learning of Model Error in Dynamical Systems

Explore a framework for machine learning to model error in dynamical systems, focusing on linear oscillators, partial information, and hybrid modeling techniques.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video