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Dr. Jack Semura

Department of  Physics

Portland State University

Portland, OR 97207-0751

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Office (503) 725-4229 

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Email: SemuraJ@pdx.edu

COMPLEXITY AND THE UNIVERSE Part I (Physics 366U or Science 318U)

Cosmological Complexity

Important message for students: No standard textbook

You should be aware that this is a new and exploratory course with no standard textbook. Because this subject is exploratory, a textbook does not exist. We will use required lectures, notes, and many new ideas.

In taking this course, please consider whether you would be comfortable exploring new ideas and working without a textbook.

Introductory Course Outline and Notes:

• Introductory Outline

•   Course Notes

People in our group
(Anyone in our group who'd like a link, please send it to me)

• Eric Drechsel's web pages:
  • Eric's Dream Wiki Course Pagei -
  • About Eric -

Links to General Complexity Sites

• Complexity Digest -
• ISEPP (Institute for Science Engineering and Public Policy) lecture series

• Santa Fe Institute 

• NECSI 

• CalResCo  

• Center for Complex Systems Research, University of Illinois

• Center for Complex Systems and Brain Science, Florida Atlantic U.

• Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan -

• Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland

• Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos

• VCU Complexity Research Group

• Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory - 

• Nonlinear and Complex Systems Lab - 

• Yahoo Complexity --

• ISAAC, ALife, Complexity, ND, AI Links - 

• New Paradigm Complexity Links - 

• Serendip Complex Systems Page

• Complexity

• Complexity Digest-

• Complexity International

• Complex Systems

• The Journal of Complex Systems

• Emergence