Winter Session 2025 Dates Will Be Announced Soon

Gain new insights that reframe your thinking, specific tools to advance current projects, and perspectives to set new directions.

Dates: TBA

Registration Open: TBA

Early Bird Registration Prices Apply: TBA

Email programs@necsi.edu for questions about our course options

This January, discover the science that teaches us about collected patterns of behavior, helps us understand the fluctuations of global finance, and can help us meet societal, organizational and global challenges.

This course provides an introduction to essential concepts of complex systems and related mathematical methods and simulation strategies with application to physical, biological and social systems.

Concepts to be covered include: emergence, complexity, networks, self-organization, pattern formation, evolution, adaptation, fractals, chaos, cooperation, competition, attractors, interdependence, scaling, dynamic response, information and function.

Methods to be covered include: statistical methods, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, pattern recognition, system representation and informatics.

Demonstration of the application of complex systems methods will be made through studies of:

• Social systems: education system, health care system, military system

• Psychosocial systems: patterns of social behavior, mind, creativity

• Biological systems: physiology, brain, cellular systems, genetic networks

• Physical systems: meteorology

Registration grants access to a two-week long session including live virtual lectures with Yaneer Bar-Yam, a guest speaker and 12 hours of pre-recorded lectures
Early Bird prices are as follows:
Corporate - $978
Government/NGO - $808
Individual - $765
Student/Academic - $638*
*Must use college or university email address to receive this rate

To apply for a scholarship, click here.

Registration grants access to two-weeks of both virtual and pre-recorded content, including: 

• Live virtual sessions with Yaneer Bar-Yam and guest lecturers. 

• Access to hours of exclusive pre-recorded lectures for self-paced learning. 

• Opportunity to participate in a team project. 

• Ample networking opportunities. 

Register today to take advantage of Early Bird pricing which ends May 10th.

Titles and runtimes of the exclusive videos included in this course:

• Part 1: Introduction to Complex Systems (55:19)

• Part 2: Self-Organization of Patterns of Behavior (1:20:16)

• Part 3: Fractal Patterns, Scaling and Universality (1:10:08)

• Part 4: Patterns: Physical, Chemical, Biological and Social (1:11:24)

• Part 5: Modeling Demonstration (45:23)

• Part 6: Describing Complex Systems on Multiple Scales (1:07:16)

• Part 7: Complexity in the Real World (1:13:31)

• Part 8: Complexity and Organizations (50:00)

• Part 9: Patterns in Brain and Mind (46:31)

• Part 10: Modeling Change: Reaction, Feedback and Chaos (1:01:13)

• Part 11: Randomness and Noise (56:02)

• Part 12: Evolution and Biodiversity in Spatial Populations (1:31:15)

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