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Math 589

This semester we'll be doing C. Adami's "Introduction to Artificial Life" Springer, 1998.

Organizational meeting: the week of Jan. 15.

Meeting time&place: Thursdays at 2:10-3:25 (Dabney 575)

SYLLABUS

  • Jan.18 Introduction (Sergey Gavrilets)
  • Jan.25 Avida (Appendix)
  • Feb.1 Avida (Chapter 9. Experiments with Avida)
  • Feb.8 Chapter 3. Introduction to information theory
  • Feb.15 Chapter 4. Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
  • Feb.22 Chapter 5. Complexity of simple living systems
  • Mar.1 no class (guest lecture)
  • Mar.8 Chapter 6. Self-Organization to criticality
  • Mar.15 Chapter 7. Percolation
  • Mar.22 no class (SPRING BREAK)
  • Mar.29 Chapter 8. Fitness landscapes
  • Apr.5 Chapter 11. Adaptive learning at the error threshold
  • Apr.12 Lenski et al. ``Genome complexity, robustness and genetic interactions in digital organisms'' ( Nature 1999, 400: 661-664 )
  • Apr.19 Adami et al. ``Evolution of biological complexity'' ( Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 2000, 97: 4463-4468 )
  • Apr.26 Wilke & Adami ``Adaptation of epistatic effects via selection for reduced mutational load'' (preprint Physics/0007055, go to http://xyz.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0007055)

    USEFUL LINKS

    http://www.alife.org

    http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/

    ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/altenber/UTK_Course.html

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