Contour plot of the stream function of an unstable mode at the onset of instability of Taylor-Couette flow with radial suction. From B. Gallet, C.R. Doering, & E.A. Spiegel, Physics of Fluids 22, 03405 (2010).
Images from Lada Adamic.
Snapshot of the tempurature field in a direct numerical simulation of turbulence in Rayleigh-Benard convection, the buoyancy of flow in a fluid heated from below and cooled from above.
Granuloma formation in TB infection. Image generated by Denise Kirschner's group.
The "Population" image is a new world map created by Mark Newman.
The "Percolation Cluster" was created by Len Sander for one of his papers (physics).
Please browse our new website to learn more about our department.
This image represents the age distribution of pertussis in the vaccine era.
High amplitude vorticity regions in developed turbulence often constitute tube or sheet-like structures.
Welcome
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary program in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Our mission is to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems.
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Carl Simon Receives 2012 Rackham Distinguished Faculty Award
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
January 10, 2013
Carl Simon has received a 2012 Rackham Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award for his long-time commitment to research and teaching.
Congratulations to Lada Adamic
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
July 31, 2012
Congratulations to Lada Adamic for winning the 2012 Lagrange Prize for Complexity Science! She is one of two recipients of this award provided by the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Torino, Italy.
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Scott Page Named Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Andrea Jones-Rooy
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
July 31, 2012
Congratulations to Andrea Jones-Rooy for her dissertation "Communication and Commitment: The Strategic Use of the Media in China and Other Autocracies"!
Congratulations to Aaron Bramson
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
July 31, 2012
Congratulations to Aaron Bramson for his dissertation "Evolution of Prosociality via Preferential Detachment"!
NewsRSS
- CSCS Project Selected for MCubed Funding February 7, 2013
- Pej Rohani served as a committee member on the report, "The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies" January 21, 2013
- Carl Simon Receives 2012 Rackham Distinguished Faculty Award January 10, 2013
