Abbrevations:

1. NDAC: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Strogatz
2. EIT: Elements of Information Theory, Cover & Thomas
3. For all others see the Computational Mechanics Reader at http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/Readings/CMechReader.html.

Readings:

1. Lecture 1 (8 January): Chaos, Scientific American, and Odds, Stanislaw Lem
2. Lecture 2 (10 January): NDAC, Chapters 1 and 2.
3. Lecture 3 (15 January): NDAC, Sections, 5.0-5.2, 6.0-6.4, 7.0-7.3, and 9.0-9.4.
4. Lecture 4 (17 January): NDAC, Chapters 3 and 8 and Sections 10.0-10.4.
5. Lecture 5 (—): Material merged with Lecture 4.
6. Lecture 6 (22 January): NDAC, Sections 12.0-12.3, 9.3, and 10.5.
7. Lecture 7 (24 January): NDAC, Chapter 10.
8. Lecture 8 (29 January): Lecture Notes.
9. Lecture 9 (31 January): Lecture Notes.
10. Lecture 10 (5 February): Lecture Notes.
11. Lecture 11 (7 February): Lecture Notes.
12. Lecture 12 (12 February): EIT Chapters 1 and 2.
13. Lecture 13 (14 February): EIT Sections 5.1-5.4 and 7.1-7.7 and Chapter 4.
14. Lecture 14 (19 February): CMR article RURO.
15. Lecture 15 (21 February): CMR articles RURO (Introduction), CAO, and ROIC.
16. Lecture 15 (26 February): CMR article CMPPSS.
17. Lecture 16 (28 February): CMR article CMPPSS.
18. Lecture 17 (4 March): CMR articles CMPPSS and RURO.
19. Lecture 18 (6 March): CMR articles CMPPSS and RURO.
20. Lecture 19 (11 March): None.
21. Lecture 20 (13 March): None.

You will find the lectures vastly more understandable having done the reading for each beforehand.