CENTRE FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS
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About the
Centre for Complex Systems
The Centre for Complex Systems plays a major role in drawing together the disparate
complex systems science components of the National Institute of Science (NIS)
at the Australian National University.
The aims of the Centre are:
* to provide a framework for bringing researchers together and stimulating
interaction and synergy between them
* to promote innovative, interdisciplinary research throughseminars and topical
workshops
* to foster graduate education and research through summerschools
The CCS continues the outreach activities of its predecessor,the Centre for
Theoretical Physics, while fostering innovative application of the powerful
tools of modern theoretical physics
and applied mathematics to a wide range of problems from the physical to the
biological sciences. A key feature in these systems is a large number of individual
units interacting
collectively and the emphasis is on the emergent behaviour beyond the elementary
laws of interaction. The unifying theoretical and mathematical tools include
statistical mechanics, many body
theory and nonlinear dynamics, as well as numerical simulation. Academics and
students of the University are invited to affiliate with the CCS. Administrative
support is provided by the
Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE.
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