Working group explores cheating, the system
A June working group explored ways to model interactions between organisms and a public good, where both can diffuse in space.
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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.
In a new paper published in Ibis, researchers explore why Peruvian parrots eat clay despite its apparent lack of nutritional value.
The Santa Fe Institute is launching an InterPlanetary Project — the first project of its kind to combine celebration with experimentation, and conversation with analysis.
The Santa Fe Institute will be pursuing questions about general, universal principles of complex time with support from the James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) through a five year, $2.5 million grant.
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.
Simon DeDeo's new tutorial introduces learners to renormalization — a method for blurring small details in order to capture meaningful features of complex systems.
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.
A new paper published in the journal Animal Behavior calls for further study of the "audience effect" across animal species by using methods similar to those used in human communication research.
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.
Professor Cristopher Moore and collaborators unveil a more accurate, efficient algorithm for internet recommendations.