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 ↗

Module 3: Structure, part 2

🚧 WIP 🚧

Additional readings

A First Course in Network Science (Menczer 2020)
- Online version
- Github

Week 7: Random walks, Percolation, Stochastic CA Week 9: Networks

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