Science Talks
01/07/2026 Seminar "Systems Complexification from Cells to Urban Infrastructure" by Mingzhen Lu, New York University
01/27/2026 Seminar by Lise Getoor, University of California, Santa Cruz
02/03/2026 Colloquium "The 'Double Security' of Democracy: Federalism's Effect on Democratic Robustness" by Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan; SFI
02/05/2026 Seminar by Carolyn Parkinson, University of California, Los Angeles
02/09/2026 Slice of Science, speaker TBA
03/10/2026 Colloquium "The Great Holocene Transformation: Cultural Macroevolution of Social Scale and Complexity" by Peter Turchin, Complexity Science Hub Vienna
03/17/2026 Seminar by Maria D'Orsogna, California State University, Northridge
Science Meetings
01/07 — 01/09 Working Group "Navigating the Space of Collective Transitions in Biology and Society," organized by Manfred Laubichler, Bryan Daniels, Colin Lynch
02/16 — 02/20 Working Group "Evolutionary Consequences of Energetic Cost of Intelligence," organized by David Wolpert, Van Savage
02/19 — 02/25 Working Group "Converging Technologies, Diverging Institutions: Bridging Governance for the Grid and the Grid’s Edge," organized by Lynne Kiesling, Seth Blumsack
02/26 – 02/27 Working Group "Foundations of Machine Learning," organized by Cris Moore, Adam Klivans
03/02 — 03/04 Working Group "The Political Economy of Sustainable Liberal Democracy," organized by Katrin Schmelz, Sam Bowles
03/19 — 03/20 Working Group "Building Diverse Intelligences Through Compositionality and Mechanism Design," organized by Melanie Mitchell, Jacob Foster
03/31 — 04/02 Working Group "The Nature of Intelligence: Cognitive Science Perspectives on AGI," organized by Melanie Mitchell, John Krakauer
04/07 — 04/08 Workshop "Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences: An Academic and Research Career," organized by Karen Willcox, James Stewart, David Krakauer