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August 14th, 2018

Networks, second edition

August 8th, 2018

Science for a complex world

What they say about us

SFI News + Events

Networks, second edition

Out of your league? Study shows most online daters seek more desirable mates

Apply now for the Santa Fe Institute Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

SFI Community Lecture – How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

A-list for ALIFE: Steen Rasmussen receives Lifetime Achievement Award from International Society for Artificial Life

New external faculty announced for 2018

The growing gap between physical and social technologies

Toward a new understanding of aging and infectious disease

Broken brains and network structures

Parakeet pecking orders, basketball match-ups, and the tenure-track: How analyzing winners and losers can reveal rank within networks

Video: After Trump and Brexit: A New Economics (Forget Red and Blue)

Study: Concentrated wealth in agricultural populations may account for the decline of polygyny

New algorithm limits bias in machine learning

Working group to discuss climate change and the human niche

Workshop explores team culture and human performance

Cooler computing through statistical physics?

Video: James Hartle, Sean Carroll, David Krakauer and Jenniffer Ouellette on The Nature of Time

David Wolpert included in NASA Group Achievement Award

Learn agent-based modeling with Bill Rand

Workshop seeks origins and implications of time