Complex Systems: Principles of Complex Systms 2

Detailed exploration of distribution, transportation, small-world, scale-free, social, biological, organizational networks; generative mechanisms; measurement and statistics of network properties; network dynamics; contagion processes. Students from all disciplines welcomed. Pre/co-requisites: Calculus, statistics required. Cross-listed with: MATH 6713.

Pre/Coreqs: Calculus and Statistics; Crosslisted with MATH 6713 A and CSYS 6713 OL1; Total combined enrollment: 35; Open to Degree and PACE students.

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Please visit: https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/teaching/courses/pocsverse/ The second PoCS course explores special topics potentially including (but not limited to) language, stories, emotion, happiness, and meaning, through a variety of operationalized, computational lenses. A few major areas: Telegnomics: The distant measurement of knowledge. Hedonometrics: The distant measurement of happiness and sadness. Emotion: The distant measurement of emotional expression Ousiometrics: The measurement of essential meaning, and the compass of essential meaning. Archetypometrics: The space of fictional characters, and their connections to real characters. We will consider stories through measurements of narratives, plots, characters, language use, interaction networks, and more. Prerequisites for PoCS, Vol. 2: By design, PoCS Vol. 1 is not required. The books can be read out of order. and consequently with all the prerequisites entailed.

Being good people: In class there will be no unnecessary electronic gadgetry, no cell phones, no beeping, no text messaging, etc. You really just need your brain, some paper, and a writing implement. Those who beep in an annoying fashion will be fined one organic banana by the lecturer. We encourage you to use the course’s Teams site to ask questions, share ideas, comments, etc., about the class and assignments but request that you please do so in a respectful fashion. No laptops in class. Please take notes with paper or a flat tablet. All interactions with classmates during lectures and office hours or in any way related to being part of PoCS should be respectful. As in all UVM classes, Academic honesty will be expected and departures will be dealt with appropriately. We will follow UVM’s community standards and guidelines. See https://www.uvm.edu/cses/. Late policy: Unless in the case of an emergency (a real one) or if an absence has been predeclared and a make-up version sorted out, assignments that are not turned in on time or tests that are not attended will be given 0%.

1. Assignments (45%)—All assignments will be of equal weight and there will be around five or six of them. Aside from correctness, clarity in thinking, writing, and presentation will be taken into account in grading. In general, questions are worth 3 points according to the following scale: • 3 = correct or very nearly so. • 2 = acceptable but needs some revisions. • 1 = needs major revisions. • 0 = way off. 2. Projects/talks (45%)—Students will work on semester-long projects, continuing on from PoCS, Vol. 1. The grade breakdown will be 10% for the first talk, 15% for the final talk, and 20% for the written project. General attendance/Class participation (10%)—it is required that students attend class and office hours. If the course is online, then the equivalent will be taking in videos/slides and attending online office hours through Microsoft Teams. Class presence/involvement will be taken into account if a grade is borderline. Each student has two free passes to not show up (but will still be expected to take in the relevant recorded class). Missed class without qualifying written reason (illness, sports, etc.): 1 percentage point deducted.