Date	Topic	Reading Assignment
January 11	Complex Adaptive Systems: Introduction and Definitions; Project Assignments
January 18	Cellular Automata Agent-Based Simulation
January 25	Self-Organization, Emergence
February 1	Designing CAS Programs
February 8	Adaptation
February 15	Information, Energy
February 22	Preliminary Project Presentations
March 1	Midterm Exam
March 8	No Classes, (Spring Break)
March 15	Dynamical Systems
March 22	Network Science
March 29	Chaos Theory
April 5	Fractals
April 12	Evolution, Genetic Algorithms
April 19	Measuring Complexity
April 20	CAS Verification and Validation	CAS Verification and Validation
May 3	Final Project Presentations

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