Santa Fe Institute


The Santa Fe Institute is a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges.

Renowned scientists and researchers come to Santa Fe Institute from universities, government agencies, research institutes, and private industry to collaborate in attempts to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world.

Events News

SFI Professor Sam Bowles Featured in the Santa Fe Reporter
Feb. 9, 2010 -

Born Poor ? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it.

Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems. Indeed, if Bowles is right, the state needs to completely rethink the way it does economic development.

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [Using Networks to Make Predictions]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Thursday, September 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf