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Agent-based modeling has been used to study everything from economics to biology to political science to business and management. This July, programmers and non-programmers alike can learn to model by enrolling in Introduction to Agent-based Modeling, Complexity Explorer’s massive open online course (MOOC).

October 13-16, graduate students can meet with leading scientists to learn about modeling and evaluating the future of human populations and their environments. Free tuition for accepted students. Apply before July 11, 2018.

"Algorithmic Information Dynamics: From Networks to Cells," is a new online course that will introduce students to tools that allow them to explore causal relationships in complex datasets. Register online through Complexity Explorer.

March 22-23, complex systems researchers will meet with business executives to discuss when and how diversity improves decision-making.

Calling all former SFI postdoctoral fellows, REUs, Summer School students, and faculty! We’re hosting a reunion, and we hope you can come. Register here.

Starting February 19, SFI's Complexity Explorer brings back a popular, and free, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

A teacher, physicist, and all-around “high throughput” individual, SFI External Professor Alfred Hübler passed away Saturday, January 27, at the age of 60.

The Santa Fe Institute is accepting applications for its signature education program for graduate students, early-career scientists, and professionals: the 2018 Complex Systems Summer School, June 10-July 6, 2018. Apply by January 29, 2018.

The Santa Fe Institute is accepting applications for the 2018 Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science (GWCSS). Apply by February 13, 2018.

This December 4-5, SFI researchers are convening a workshop to discuss how to study figurative brains such as ant colonies, microbe ecosystems, and the immune system. 

The first annual InterPlanetary Festival will draw space enthusiasts from around the world for a two-day celebration of human ingenuity June 7-8, 2018, in Santa Fe, NM.

Exploring the limits of scientific understanding is the query that will drive a three-day workshop at SFI, which itself aims to understand how well scientific and mathematical reasoning can comprehend complex systems.

In a new paper, SFI's Jessica Flack offers a practical answer to one of the most significant, and most confused questions in evolutionary biology — can higher levels of organization drive the behavior of lower-level components?

SFI researchers quantify the thermodynamic efficiency of a fundamental biological computation. 

SFI's inaugural Complexity Challenge asked participants in SFI's education programs to apply their studies to an abstracted, real-world problem. Read more about the challenge and the winning solutions.

In a two-part lecture series in Santa Fe on September 25-26, economist John Geanakoplos explored why it is that out of all economic variables, debt causes the most trouble. Watch part one of his talk here and part two here.

SFI and Arizona State University soon will offer the world’s first comprehensive online master’s degree in complexity science.

Enroll now for SFI’s Complexity Explorer course "Nonlinear Dynamics" with instructor Elizabeth Bradley, which begins Monday, September 4. 

SFI's free online course, Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos with College of the Atlantic professor David Feldman, begins September 4. Topics to be covered include: phase space, bifurcations, chaos, the butterfly effect, strange attractors, and pattern formation.

The Santa Fe Institute is launching an InterPlanetary Project — the first project of its kind to combine celebration with experimentation, and conversation with analysis.