| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES | 
|---|---|---|
Introduction:  | ||
| 1 | Introduction and managing complexity Managing complexity  | |
Managing complexity:  | ||
| 2-5 | Heterogeneous hierarchies | Homework 1 due in SES #5 | 
Removing spurious complexity:  | ||
| 6-14 | Proportional reasoning | Homework 2 due in SES #11 | 
| 15-19 | Conservation/box models | Homework 3 due in SES #16 | 
| 20-29 | Dimensions and afterword | Homework 4 due in SES #22 and Homework 5 due in SES #28 | 
Discarding actual complexity:  | ||
| 30-34 | Special cases | |
| 35-36 | Discretization | Homework 6 due in SES #36 | 
| 37-38 | Spring models | |