MOCS Fall 2025

Getting Started
Week 1: Why model?
Week 2: Modeling

Week 3: Discrete models
Week 4: Continuous models
Week 5: ...and Chaos

Structure, part 1

Week 6: Cellular Automata and Fractals
Week 7: Random walks, Percolation, Stochastic CA

Structure, part 2

Week 9: Networks
Week 10: Models on networks
Week 11: Models of networks
Week 12: Models on and of networks

Dynamics, Structure & Statistics

Agent-based modeling
Evolutionary game theory
ABMs ❤️ Evo. game theory
Model Selection
Generalized linear madness

Model Theory (redux)

Syllabus
Evaluation
References
Computational resources
Notebooks ↗

Models on Networks

📚 Week 10 readings

📖 Chapter 17 (not 16 yet) from Sayama^*
📖 Disease implications of animal social network structure: A synthesis across social systems (Sah et al. 2017)^*
📖 Modeling Complex systems (CS/CSYS 302)^*

Epidemic models on Networks

Bonus video: Exploring random networks (with generating functionology)

Things to do by Thursday at noon

Quiz 10
Assignment 3

Week 9: Networks Week 11: Models of networks

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