Santa Fe Institute

Synergetics

  • Instructor(s): TBA
  • Institution: Florida Atlantic University
  • Category: General
  • Description: An introduction to Synergetics, the theory of self-organizing structures, will be given along examples from biology, chemistry and physics. Deterministic and stochastic models will be studied, e.g. Laser equations, Navier-Stokes model, Ginzburg-Landau systems, Fokker-Planck theory, master equation. Prerequisite: Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.