Hey there fellow students, My name

name is Zachary Dunivin and I am gonna

be TA in this course along with Simon and

David. I am a fifth year PhD student at

Indiana University. I am in the complex

systems program and i am also in the

sociology PhD program. I am doing both. i

have now a social science background for

about 4 years but prior to that my

background was mostly in molecular and

evolutionary biology and also analytic

philosophy and I don't do much with

biology anymore. But i feel like, even

though i am not a huge fan of analytic

philosophy or the work that done in the

field. It really has served as a way for

me to think much more seriously and

rigorously about what is motivating my

work and the particular moves i make as

i construct an agreement largely with

numbers. My work is fairly diverse. I am

not gonna talk about all of it sure

some will come out. My dissertation is on

bureaucracy as an information processing

system looking at how bureaucracy label

themselves and there environments to make

them tractable to control. There is some

math. There is some empirics and there

is also some kind of good old fashioned

verbal agreement in there. So as far as

this course goes, I don't know much how

much you are going to notice me. I will

be posting modules as they become

available and i am gonna be reviewing

all the course materials before you guys

see them i will probably end up adding

to the course material somewhat and

then i will be available to field

questions, technical questions. I will

receive them and pass them onto the

complexity explorer technical team and

and for more substantial questions, I will

be post them on the discord so that the

answers are publicly available and others

of you can chime in when you see questions

that you find interesting or feel like

you have something to bear on them

I think we can also ask questions through

the complexity explorer forum. That's

fine too. But that kind of my role in the

course. I am really excited to be here.

Been involved with Santa Fe institute of

pretty much the whole time i have been

in grad school. A lot of cool stuff goes

on here and i think it's an exciting time

to be doing this course. You know it both

because the course itself is new and

because a lot of the materials are kind of

newer. And, I look forward to doing this

with you guys. Thank you.