Working group explores ancient Maya understanding of time
SFI Maya Working Group meets for fifth time to produce a second book.
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SFI Maya Working Group meets for fifth time to produce a second book.
A June working group explored ways to model interactions between organisms and a public good, where both can diffuse in space.
Farley Ziegler, Tim Jenison, and SFI Professor Jessica Flack presented an SFI Community Lecture on painting and optics in the 17th Century and a screening of Tim's Vermeer at The Lensic Performing Arts Center on August 1.
When a highly-networked research institute joins forces with a vast web of citation data, new insights are bound to emerge.
The Santa Fe Institute is launching an InterPlanetary Project — the first project of its kind to combine celebration with experimentation, and conversation with analysis.
Michael Mauboussin, Chair of SFI's Board of Trustees and a highly-regarded research analyst known for his expertise in corporate valuation, investment process, market inefficiencies, and behavioral economics, will join the firm BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC (“BlueMountain”) in the newly created position Director of Research.
The Wall Street Journal announces SFI Chair Emeritus Bill Miller the winner of its quarterly contest for best-performing U.S. stock fund over a 12-month period.
Actors presented select scenes from Marin Gazzaniga’s play exploring deeply held assumptions about religion and belief at The Lensic Performing Arts Center on May 9.
Michael Kearns presented an SFI Community Lecture on machine learning and social norms at The Lensic Performing Arts Center on April 4. Watch his talk here.
An SFI working group explores the interactions between pre-industrial humans and other species, and what those interactions might tell us about modern society.
Human settlements sprawl according to common factors, and modern cities show similar patterns to ancient ones, but hunter-gatherer encampments look much different. An SFI working group is trying to figure out why.
Some 30 researchers gather at SFI this week to discover how social networks influence wealth inequality.
During a January 24 talk in Santa Fe, neurobiologist Christof Koch presented a theory about which brains can experience consciousness and which cannot. Watch his talk here.
The Winter 2017 issue of SFI's quarterly newsletter is available online. Download it here.
An SFI working group re-frames "cyber security-as-usual."
Models from ecology may have some important things to teach us about politics, competition, and our modern-day social echo chambers.
Two sets of mathematically inclined, multidisciplinary postdocs convene at the Santa Fe Institute.
Working Group explores the suspiciously simple computer science question: Does P = NP?
Circuits aren't just for electronics; living circuits exist in the biological world as well.
Philosopher and biographer Ray Monk is SFI’s Miller Scholar for 2017.