[Sorry for the Santa Fe centric question on our much broader list.]
We're looking into advanced studies classes @ the complex. This is motivated by the lack of higher level offerings with the city's colleges: SFCC, CSF, and so on.
So my question to you is: What classes would you be interested in that you cannot find in Santa Fe's current colleges? What would you like to take from UNM or Highlands or other universities that you cannot take here in Santa Fe?
To get you started, some of us have talked about this and here are some ideas:
- Graphics: advanced graphics including your basic transformations, possibly including GPU programming.
- Computing: Cris Moore's book The Nature of Computing, or a more traditional Theory of Computation book. Algorithms. Knuth.
- Math: Two areas of importance to much of what we do: Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics. A review of undergraduate math like the wonderful All The Math You Missed But Need For Graduate School by Thomas Garrity.
- Complexity Topics: Complexity touches on many specialities. These would be good "special topics" short courses. They'd include Game Theory, Data Mining, Artificial Life, Graph Theory, Machine Learning, Stochastic Processes and so on.
So here's your chance! Do you have any classes you'd like to have that are not available in Santa Fe's colleges? I'd like to collect topics and people interested in them.
-- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
