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Science On Screen continues May 8 with Simon DeDeo and 'Sneakers'
April 30, 2013 -

The popular Science On Screen series returns to Santa Fe Wednesday evening, May 8, with Simon DeDeo and the 1992 cult hacker film Sneakers.

Video: How social media might help you survive the next big disaster
March 25, 2013 -

SFI's 2013 Community Lecture series debuted March 14 with UC-Boulder's Leysia Palen describing how victims, observers, and “citizen-responders” are using modern technology to participate in disaster response. Watch ...

Climate scientists James Hansen, at SFI, calls for energy sources to foot their 'true' costs
Feb. 22, 2013 -

Speaking at SFI yesterday, noted climate scientist James Hansen told an overflow crowd that efforts to stem climate change will be ineffectual as long as fossil fuels remain the cheapest ...

SFI's successful crowdfunding campaign will help scientists study indigenous people
Dec. 14, 2012 -

SFI's crowdfunding campaign has reached its goal. The resulting research will help scientists preserve the threatened landscapes on which indigenous human groups depend. 

The Gods Must Be Crazy with Murray Gell-Mann
Dec. 13, 2012 -

The 2012 Science On Screen series in Santa Fe wrapped up December 13 to a full house, with "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and Murray Gell-Mann's distinctive insight and ...

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Current and Upcoming Events - Jan. 1, 2013

  • * SFI community lectures are free, open, & accessible to the public.
  • * Seminars & colloquia are geared for scientists but free & open to the interested public.
  • * All other SFI events are by invitation only.
  • * Note: We are unable to accommodate members of the public for SFI's limited lunch service; you're welcome to bring your own.

Jan. 8, 2013

Collins Conference Room
Jan. 8, 2013 - Jan. 10, 2013
Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Luis Bettencourt
3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Paul Falkowski (Depts. of Geological Sciences & Marine & Coastal Science, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Rogier Braakman

Jan. 25, 2013

Collins Conference Room
Jan. 25, 2013 - Jan. 26, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Doug Erwin

Feb. 1, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
Feb. 1, 2013 - Feb. 3, 2013
Workshop

SFI Host: Sam Bowles & Paul Hooper

Feb. 5, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Matthew O. Jackson (Department of Economics, Stanford University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

Feb. 6, 2013

7 p.m.
Center for Contemporary Arts
Community Event

Cris Moore (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Feb. 7, 2013

12:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: David Wolpert

Feb. 11, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)

Purpose: External Faculty
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Feb. 20, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Martin Strobel (Department of Economics, Maastricht University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Feb. 21, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

James Hansen (Columbia University Earth Institute)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

March 5, 2013

Collins Conference Room
March 5, 2013 - March 7, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

March 6, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Veit Elser (Cornell University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

March 7, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Pod A Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

March 12, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Leysia Palen (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Evandro Ferrada

March 13, 2013

7 p.m.
Center for Contemporary Arts
Community Event

Paula Sabloff (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

March 14, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Amos Golan (Department of Economics, American University)

Purpose: Resident Faculty
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne
7:30 p.m.
Community Event

Greer Garson Theater, 1600 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe (NOTE:  Change in Venue)

Palen is an associate professor of computer science and director of Project EPIC (Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

March 22, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Pascal Van Hentenryck (NICTA)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: David Wolpert

March 25, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig; SFI External Professor)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

March 26, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Kevin Knuth (University at Albany - SUNY)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: David Wolpert

March 28, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado, Boulder; SFI External Professor)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

April 2, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Burton Voorhees (Athabasca University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

April 3, 2013

Collins Conference Room
April 3, 2013 - April 4, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: David Wolpert, Frank Alexander and Turab Lookman

April 4, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Pod A Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

April 16, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Barry Wellman (University of Toronto)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Clio Andris

April 17, 2013

Topical Meeting

Purpose: Business Network

April 18, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Eric Mjolsness (University of California, Irvine)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

April 23, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Michael Batty (Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University of College London)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Luis Bettencourt

April 29, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Clare Yu (University of California, Irvine)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Geoffrey West

April 30, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Sarah "Sally" Otto (Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Evandro Ferrada

May 1, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
May 1, 2013 - May 2, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: John Rundle
12:15 p.m.
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

May 2, 2013

May 2, 2013 - May 4, 2013
Symposium

New Perspectives in Evolution

Santa Fe, NM

This annual SFI Science Board meeting will focus on building a vision for future SFI research directions. The topic this year focuses on new quantitative, biological, and cultural perspectives on evolution.

Participation is by invitation only.

May 6, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
May 6, 2013 - May 9, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Cris Moore, Aaron Clauset, and Mark Newman

May 7, 2013

12:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Geoffrey West

May 8, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Mimi Koehl (University of California, Berkeley, and SFI Science Board)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne
5 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Community Event
SFI Host: Juniper Lovato
7 p.m.
Center for Contemporary Arts
Community Event

Simon DeDeo (Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

May 9, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley and author of several books on child learning, including The Scientist in the Crib and The Philosophical Baby.

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

May 10, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Zack Powell (University of California, Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

May 13, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Stefan Pickl (Universität der Bundewehr München; Munich, Germany) and Dr. Daniel A. Nussbaum (Naval Postgraduate School)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

May 15, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Norman Yoffee (Prof. emeritus, Depts of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

May 20, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Steve Lansing (University of Arizona; SFI External Professor)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

May 24, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Peter N. Peregrine (Lawrence University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

May 28, 2013

Collins Conference Room
May 28, 2013 - May 30, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Peter Peregrine, Scott Ortman, and Eric Rupley

May 30, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Division of Cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Imaging for the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Director of the Zoobiquity Research Initiative at UCLA, and Co-Director of the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine Program.  In addition to her expertise in cardiology, she also is a psychiatrist. Dr. Natterson-Horowitz completed her psychiatry residency and served as Chief Resident at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She combines her training in psychiatry and cardiology to focus on the relationship between psychological states and heart disease. She also serves as a cardiovascular consultant to the Los Angeles Zoo as a member of its Medical Advisory Board. She has provided medical consultation and imaging services to the zoo’s veterinarians, assisting with many patients representing various mammal and non-mammal species.

Dr. Natterson-Horowitz completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard College and received a Master’s degree from Harvard University. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco.

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

June 3, 2013

June 3, 2013 - Aug. 9, 2013
Program
SFI Host: Juniper Lovato
Saint John's College
June 3, 2013 - June 28, 2013
School
SFI Host: Juniper Lovato
Saint John's College
June 3, 2013 - June 28, 2013
School
Purpose: Business Network

June 4, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and writer at Baylor College of Medicine where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and the Law.  

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

June 6, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

June 10, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Jan Nijman (Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Geoffrey West

June 16, 2013

Saint John's College
June 16, 2013 - June 29, 2013
School
SFI Host: John Miller and Scott Page
Saint John's College
June 16, 2013 - June 29, 2013
School
SFI Host: John Miller and Scott Page

June 18, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Tullis Onstott (Princeton University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Rogier Braakman

June 24, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Daniel Pauly (The University of British Columbia)

SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

June 26, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

July 10, 2013

12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Catie Grasso (Oregon Health & Science University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

July 11, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Pod A Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

July 23, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Michael E. Smith (Arizona State University)

Purpose: Colloquium
SFI Host: Scott Ortman and Luis Bettencourt

July 28, 2013

July 28, 2013 - Aug. 9, 2013
School

Groton, Massachusetts

SFI Host: Juniper Lovato

July 29, 2013

Pod A Conference Room
July 29, 2013 - Aug. 2, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Cris Moore

July 31, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

Michael Crow is President of Arizona State University. Since 2002 he has guided the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities – a model he terms the “New American University.”

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Hilary Skolnik

Aug. 1, 2013

7:30 a.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 1, 2013 - Aug. 2, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff, Geoffrey West, David Krakauer, Ginger Richardson and Melanie Mitchell
3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Aug. 7, 2013

Pod A Conference Room
Aug. 7, 2013 - Aug. 10, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Cris Moore, Jon Machta, and Stephan Mertens
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 7, 2013 - Aug. 30, 2013
Workshop

SFI Host: Doyne Farmer, Eric Beinhocker, Deborah Strumsky, and Jose Lobo
12:15 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

John Pepper (National Cancer Institute)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Aug. 14, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.  Goldstein was a 2011 Santa Fe Institute Miller Scholar.

Steven Pinker is a Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition and is the author of seven books, most recently The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Aug. 23, 2013

Collins Conference Room
Aug. 23, 2013 - Aug. 25, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: David Freidel and Jerry Sabloff

Aug. 27, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Albert Goldbeter (University of Brussels)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Sept. 5, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Sept. 10, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Sept. 10, 2013 - Sept. 12, 2013
Community Event

Complexity and the Biology of Computation

SFI External Professor and Science Board member Stephanie Forrest is a professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico. She is a recipient of the University’s Research Lectureship (2012) as well as the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery/AAAI Allen Newell Award for innovations in computing technology that have enabled computer science to solve real-world challenges. 

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Sept. 19, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 19, 2013 - Sept. 21, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Geoffrey West, Luis Bettencourt, and Jose Lobo

Sept. 23, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 23, 2013 - Sept. 26, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: David Pines, John Holland, Simon Levin, and Donald Saari

Oct. 3, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Oct. 6, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
Oct. 6, 2013 - Oct. 11, 2013
Program
SFI Host: Juniper Lovato

Oct. 22, 2013

Noyce Conference Room
Oct. 22, 2013 - Oct. 24, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Nina Federoff, Luis Bettencourt, and Molly Jahn

Nov. 6, 2013

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Event

George Dyson is an author and historian of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation to the physical environment and the direction of society.

Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Nov. 7, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Dec. 5, 2013

3:30 p.m.
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

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