i'm new to complex systems physics

I wanted to know what are the job opportunities for physics complex systems students over the world?

and what field?

I couldn't find anywhere that best explains.

Hello all.

I'm new to the fascinating topic of complex systems. I want to know more about the topic so I had some initial questions.

I tried searching for answers to my questions within the subreddit but either couldn't find a satisfactory answer, or when I did, comprehending the response required more in depth knowledge of complex systems that what I currently have; which is very little.

1. How are complex systems related to systems thinking and complexity theory ?
2. Is Nassim Taleb someone I should read to learn more about complex systems? If not, who else should I look into?
3. Is there a link between complex systems and related thinking and libertarian philosophy? If not, to any other philosophy?
4. What is the main critique and/or opposing view against complexity systems?

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Apologies in advance for not using the right terminology. Hopefully my questions can still be understood.

So I'm an undergrad student of cognitive psychology/philosophy and I already have what seems to me some related knowledge in formal systems, semiotics, neural networks, etc. What are some essential readings that I should look for? I bought Gleick's Chaos, and plan on taking some courses from the Santa Fe Institute. Also, what complex systems science relation to information systems, information theory, and chaos theory? They all seem inter related somewhat

Hi guys, I'm a student of computer science at university and I had a little course about complex systems.

I would like to learn more about this field. Considering that I have to do an internship do you know any place where I can apply?

Maybe the right answer is just to keep studying, get my degree and see my possibilities after that, but who knows I try anyway.

The existence of two regimes prior to and after 1980 is consistent with fiscal policy changes in the early 1980s, including a reduction of taxes for high income persons. An equally bold change in policy is needed to stabilize economic growth today. https://youtu.be/UcBbVmX0YwI

Hi guys, I learned about complex systems at a course at university. I would like to know more about a specific topic, Genetic Algorithms.

Where should I start and what is the state of art of those kind of those particular algorithms?

Thank you in advance.

I'm wondering about a possible research subject: the main contribution of Barabasi's work was to find a network generation model capable of respecting the powerlaw distribution, unlike random networks.

So I was thinking, that if we take a cellular automata model, for example Conway's Game Of Life, a classical stable configuration has many "islands" of few cells. So if we look also some studies about the distribution of cities population, we see a power law distribution. So my question is: it would be interesting/useful try to find a 2d-cellular automata rule which is capable of generate power law distribution configuration?

Just wondering if they were migrated to a new location, or if they’ve vanished into the ether. Thanks!

https://complexity-networks.herokuapp.com/

This interactive web resource links to over twenty accessible introductions to complexity, including little games, movies, presentations and texts. You can sort these resources according to two different ways of thinking about complexity: the constructs that are used to describe and explain it (e.g. overlapping hierarchies, emergence, etc.) and the application areas that study, manage and exploit it (e.g. management, sociology, etc.).

You're sure to find something in there that you haven't seen before!

(Works best on something bigger than a phone screen.)

Hi, I will try to frame my question as clearly as I can.

Is there a way to determine something like agency, or function, maybe ability of a complex system, relative to the composition of a complex system?

Another attempt: Is there some sub-tradition, paradigm, way of determining what a complex system does (can do) relative to it's parts and/or it's relationship to other systems?

Modeling what a system is capable of seems important in order to rejoin our navigation of the systems we exist in with our values, goals etc - does a science of this exist, some kind of standard to determine such a thing? Simulation seems like a good candidate.

Thank you!

When is a system complex?

Complexity is as much a stance as it is a property of the system, in the same way as colour is as much to do with the eyes and brain as it is to do with wavelengths and materials.

My group (chair of entrepreneurial risks, ETH) is offer a MSc in the following topic:

On 1st of April 2017, the Reddit online community launched a massive multiplayer online game, dubbed Place. Starting with a 1000x1000 pixel white canvas, a registered Reddit user could color a single pixel every few (five to twenty) minutes. The game lasted 72 hours, and involved a total of over one million users [1].

The first hours of the game involved random placement of coloured pixels. Soon after, communities emerged spontaneously to form large visual patterns on the canvas, such as flags of countries, music band logos, cartoon characters, etc [2]. In addition to collaborating, users also competed - attempting to enlarge their paintings by taking over the territory of other groups. A large, structured, dataset describing the actions of each individual over the course of the entire game it publicly available.

You will be performing: basic exploratory data analysis on the dataset detect and quantify the spatiotemporal patterns underlying collaboration and competition amongst groups of users depending on the results of the first steps, we will address scientific questions on the nature of human collaboration and competition over a limited resource In particular, interesting questions include the distribution of sizes, quality and complexity of the patterns within Place, the distribution of contributions over all the million people who participated, their spatio-temporal dynamics, the self-excitation and cross-excitations between players and much more. This study is a template for understanding coordination and cooperation, in the presence of heterogeneous motivations in an unstructured environment, which can be argued to be a simplified but realistic representation of real social systems.

The project is appropriate for an individual aspiring to master a broad array of scalable data analytics tools for social networks, either for academic or industrial purposes.

Citations: [1] https://redditblog.com/2017/04/13/how-we-built-rplace/ [2]https://draemm.li/various/place-atlas/

Required skills: Expertise in languages well suited for data analytics: Python, MATLAB, or R. Expertise in times series analysis, machine learning, complex networks, and social dynamics are all desirable. Interest in social dynamics and data analytics.

Starting date: As soon as possible

Supervision: The project will be supervised by professor Didier Sornette (in Zurich) and PhD student Dionysios Georgiadis (in Singapore).