Advising Undecided Students: Lessons From Chaos Theory

Advising Online Dissertation Students

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Chaos/Complexity Theory and Education

Sciences exist to demonstrate the fundamental order underlying nature. Chaos/complexity theory is a novel and amazing field of scientific inquiry. Notions of our everyday experiences are somehow in connection to the laws of nature through chaos/complexity theory’s concerns with the relationships between simplicity and complexity, between orderliness and randomness (Retrieved from http://www.inc...

Two lessons from fractals and chaos

We used to think that a good measurement is characterized by its mean and variance and that a good theory is characterized by its ability to predict the values measured in an experiment. The properties of nonlinear systems called fractals and chaos have now taught us that this isn’t necessarily true. Data from fractal systems extend over many scales and so cannot be characterized by a single ch...

Quantum Chaos: Lessons from Disordered Metals

Non Linear Evolution of Dynamic Spatial Systems: Lessons from Chaos and Niche Theory

Recently increasing interest in non-linear dynamic phenomena has emerged in economics and regional science, such as resilience of systems to sudden changes, adjustment processes, uncertainty and perturbations at both micro and macro levels. In the context of spatial modelling this has also provoked an increasing use of (continuous and discrete) dynamic models derived from ecology (such as May's...