[home]
[people]
[publications]
[projects]
[education]
12.006J/18.353J Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos.
Offered every fall jointly by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Mathematics. This undergraduate course provides an introduction to the theory and phenomenology of nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
12.517 Dynamics of Complex Systems.
This graduate-level course provides an introduction to theoretical studies of systems of many interacting components, the individual dynamics of which may be simple, but the collective dynamics of which are often nonlinear and analytically intractable. Topics vary from year to year and the format can include both pedagogical lectures and round-table reviews of current and classical literature.
Spring 2005: Biological and environmental coevolution preceding the Cambrian explosion.
Spring 2004: Great biogeochemical events: Origin and dynamics.
Spring 2003: Evolution of biogeochemical cycles.
Spring 2002: Pattern and form in geology and geobiology.
Spring 2001: Ecological theory.
Spring 2000: Complexity in ecology.
Spring 1999: Natural networks.
12.085 Seminar in Environmental Science.
Offered for the first time in Fall, 2005. For undergraduate majors in the Deparment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Spring 2007: Climate change and An Inconvenient Truth.
Fall 2005: Global respiration.