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Currently offered.
12.086/12.586 Modeling Environmental Complexity.
This course provides an introduction to the study of environmental phenomena that exhibit both organized structure and wide variability--i.e., complexity. Through focused study of a variety of physical, biological, and chemical problems in conjunction with theoretical models, students learn a series of lessons with wide applicability to understanding the structure and organization of the natural world. Students also learn how to construct minimal mathematical, physical, and computational models that provide informative answers to precise questions. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Offered for the first time in Fall, 2008.
12.085 Seminar in Environmental Science.
Required for all Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences majors in the Environmental Science track, this course is an introduction to current research in the field.
Recently offered.
12.006J/18.353J/2.050J Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos.
This undergraduate course provides an introduction to the theory and phenomenology of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Offered first by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in 1989, and later jointly with the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Course materials, including lecture notes, are available through MIT's Open Courseware.
12.517 Dynamics of Complex Systems.
No longer offered. Topics varied from year to year and the format included 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.