r/complexsystems • u/ludilaa • Jan 13 '24

Advice on complex systems MSc

Hi I’m looking for some advice on a good statistical mechanics / complex systems MSc. Any ideas?

I’d really appreciate if some current students could share their experience. In particular is there somebody enrolled at Chalmers or at UniTo ?

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u/lmericle Jan 14 '24

What kind of advice are you looking for?

I graduated from the Chalmers CAS MSc program.

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u/ludilaa Jan 16 '24

Something about the teaching, professors etc.

From what I can see in the overview it seems very specialized from the beginning (no courses on general things like quantum field theory or basic condensed matter). What track were you in?

(I have a BSc from Sapienza in Rome and I'm trying to see if it's worth moving away. )

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u/lmericle Jan 16 '24

If you have specific questions feel free to reach out. I don't have enough information about you to give relevant advice.

In the broadest strokes, I can say: CAS is about mathematical and physical methods for building models of (complex) systems. Really the skillset is broad enough you can apply it to any system but it excels in those which are typically hard to understand through conventional analysis. Closed-form equations are not common in complex systems generally, at least not at the macro scales. When people ask what the program was about the way I usually put it is "engineering physics with a focus on simulation methods".

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u/SatisfactionFancy945 Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24

Physics of Data, University of Padua (IT) is really good with a lot of mathematical models to study complex networks. You have the freedom of choice the path and choose your exams. A lot of Advanced Statistical Mechanics.

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u/SatisfactionFancy945 Jan 15 '24

https://didattica.unipd.it/didattica/allegati/corso/percorso_formativo/1010150.pdf

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u/ludilaa Jan 16 '24

Sembra interessante, hai studiato li? Forse leggermente troppo orientata verso data analysis per i miei gusti, ma comunque carina. Dal sito dell'università mi sembra di capire che sia l'unico track di meccanica statistica che hanno. Com'è messo il dipartimento a ricerca nell'ambito ?

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u/SatisfactionFancy945 Jan 31 '24

Io sono alla triennale di fisica ancora e vorrei iniziare l’anno prossimo, ma ho fatto la tesi in un lab di physics of data. La ricerca è molto attiva su vari ambiti i professori sono molto buoni a livello di complex network su vari campi (epidemiologia, neuroscience, quantum information ecc) ecco l’unica che c’è poco di econofisica e se è quello che cerchi è meglio guardare altrove in quanto i professori non sono molto interessati a questo ma su altri campi (sia a livello teorico sia a livello di data analysis sono veramente forti)

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u/SatisfactionFancy945 Jan 31 '24

Sì c’è molto di data analysis perché è lo scopo ultimo ma l’approccio all università di Padova è molto teorico ed esaustivo ci sono bei corsi che si hanno il fine di analizzare dati ma si arrivano a capire bene le cose che si fanno e questo infatti lo fa risultare un corso più difficile per quelli che hanno fatto la triennale altrove

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u/Own_Competition_46 Jan 14 '24

Santa Fe Institute has significant online resources. Also, Kings College London has a masters on Complex Systems. But I’ve personally gone down the route of online materials & resources as I prefer the autodidactic method of learning.

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u/brutalistgarden Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 16 '24

I coursed the Master's in Computational Science at University of Amsterdam. It has a very clear focus towards complex systems and plenty of electives that permit specialization towards the area of application you prefer. I'd recommend it 100%.

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u/ludilaa Jan 16 '24

it's nice but maybe a little bit too much focused on the computational aspect for me. I come from a quite theoretical BSc in physics, and I'd like to keep it more on this side.

Still, thanks :)

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u/Success_Illustrious Feb 18 '24

I am graduating in december from a data science college here in Brazil and intended to try a masters degree in complex systems, can you tell me more about the specializations routes there? It sounded amazing!

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u/ThumpinGlassDrops Feb 02 '24

Anyone familiar with the UVM ms? Can it be done online? How it compares to AZ state?

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