The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is launching an InterPlanetary Project — the first project of its kind to combine celebration with experimentation, and conversation with analysis.
Sarah Laborde, a 2014 SFI Complex Systems Summer School alumna, recently helped host a CSSS-inspired workshop in N’Gaoundere, Cameroon.
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.
During a ceremony Wednesday evening, May 4, the Santa Fe Institute awarded Melanie McKinley its Prize for Outstanding Teacher, and recognized 13 Santa Fe-area high school seniors for scientific excellence.
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.
Starting this week, a new online tutorial teaches quantitative approaches to understanding game-like interactions between multiple decision makers.
An SFI working group explores the interactions between pre-industrial humans and other species, and what those interactions might tell us about modern society.
SFI has named evolutionary anthropologist Paul Hooper as its new Director of Education.
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.
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.
This week at SFI, a multidisciplinary group of experts is gathered at SFI to work toward a quantitative science of how living things process energy and information to solve problems.
A new research program at SFI looks at laws as operating systems for human societies.
During an October 18 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg explored how math can help us think about the seemingly uncertain matters that dominate our lives. Watch his talk here.