Particle Systems

So after reading Ch. 5 in our book, I stumbled upon this post on another website and watched some of the beautiful particle system animations it had. It looks like they might have some links to tutorials at the bottom of the page, but they appear to be for 3DS Max. How do you do this in Maya?

Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.

http://forcg.com/tutorials/particle-system/15-excellent-particle-flow-animations/