The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
May 19 through May 21, 2010 in Portland Oregon. The course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.
The Santa Fe Institute celebrates 25 years.
Watch video interviews with SFI Professors David Krakauer, Sam Bowles, Murray Gell-Mann and Harold Morowitz discussing the future of complexity .
Memento: Time Travel for the Web
Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis
Santo Fortunato, Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Italy
Born Poor ? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it.
Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems. Indeed, if Bowles is right, the state needs to completely rethink the way it does economic development.
Thursday, September 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
The decline and abandonment of many key cities in the Southern Maya Lowlands around A.D. 800 has long attracted scholarly and public attention. While archaeologists now understand – contrary to previous thought – that Maya civilization did not collapse at this time, as a number of Maya cities continued to thrive up until the 16th century Spanish Conquest, the causes of the relatively rapid demise of cities such as Tikal, Palenque, and Copan remain of great interest. New archaeological, epigraphic, and environmental information have enabled archaeologists to form better models that provide more systemic perspectives on this decline than ever before. Sabloff examines the new data and models and discusses their potential relevance to problems facing the world today.
Monday, February 8, 2010 12:15 p.m. Noyce Conference Room
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 12:15 p.m. Medium Conference Room
Thursday, April 08, 2010 • 3:30 PM • Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI
Thursday, February 18, 2010 • 3:30 PM • Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI
Thursday, February 4, 2010 • 3:30 PM • Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI
Research conducted by Samuel Bowles, SFI Professor, and colleagues on small-scale societies, ranging from egalitarian hunter gatherers to hierarchical farmers and herders in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, concludes that the degree of wealth inequality in a society is based on inheritance. This variation in inequality is explained by a dynamic model in which a population’s long-run steady-state level of inequality depends on the extent to which its most important forms of wealth are transmitted within families across generations. The passing on of material things such as farms, herds and other real property, or even knowledge, skills and other valuable resources plays a large role in whether the next generation will accumulate or maintain high wealth status.