Student Tutorial Readings

Neville Sanjana

Computational Neuroscience: A Brief Introduction [html]

Martin Waszak

Benefits and Limitations of Feedback Control [pdf]

Pablo Villoslada

Dynamics of Bystander Cytotoxic T Cells Activation in a Model of Autoimmunity [pdf]

Main Program Readings

Lauren Ancel

Modeling Evolution: Integrating Computation, Experimentation, and Theory [HTML Slides]

Plasticity, Evolvability, and Modularity in RNA [pdf]

A Quantitative Model of the Simpson-Baldwin Effect [pdf]

Andrew Belmonte

Dynamic Patterns and Self-Knotting of a Driven Hanging Chain [pdf]

Sam Bowles

The Co-Evolution of Individual Behaviors and Social Institutions [pdf]

Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Punishment in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies [7 pages] [pdf]

'Economic Man' in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies [62 pages: long version of previous paper] [pdf]

Liz Bradley

Time Series Analysis [postscript] [pdf]

Ordinary Differential Equations [postscript] [pdf]

Tom Carter

Linear Algebra Notes [pdf]

C. E. Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf]

Jim Crutchfield

What Lies Between Order and Chaos? [pdf]

Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence [pdf]

Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity [pdf]

Rob De Boer

Small Variations in Multiple Parameters Account for Wide Variations in HIV-1 Set-Points: A Novel Modelling Approach [pdf]

Diversity in the Immune System [pdf]

Herbert Gintis

Costly Signaling and Cooperation [pdf]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Gene-Culture Coevolution, and the Internalization of Norms [pdf]

Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality [pdf]

David Krakauer

Redundancy, Antiredundancy, and the Robustness of Genomes [pdf]

Melanie Mitchell

CSSS Overview Lecture [powerpoint] (5.9 MB)

Evolving Cellular Automata with Genetic Algorithms: A Review of Recent Work [pdf]

A Comparison of Evolutionary and Coevolutionary Search [pdf]

Computation in Cellular Automata: A Selected Review [pdf]

Mark Newman

S. H. Strogatz, Exploring Complex Networks [pdf]

Mike North

J. Stites, SFI's Next Generation of Models Tackles the Real World [pdf]

Axtell, R., Why Agents? On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the Social Sciences

Alan Perelson

Immunology for Physicists [pdf]

Mathematical Analysis of HIV-1 Dynamics in Vivo [pdf]

Andreas Wagner

Robustness against mutations in genetic networks of yeast [pdf]

Duncan Watts

Identity and Search in Social Networks [pdf]

Identity and Search in Social Networks (Slides) [pdf]

Geoffrey West

Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals [pdf]

Allometric Scaling of Plant Energetics and Population Density [pdf]

The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms [pdf]

A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology [pdf]

A General Model for the Structure and Allometry of Plant Vascular Systems [pdf]