The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
SFI is offering several new education outreach programs in 2011 and making changes to its education programs designed to increase their value and sustainability, says Ginger Richardson, VP for Education and Institutional Outreach.
Orlando Montoya makes possible the Institute’s constant hum of activity by keeping the lights on, keeping the boiler running, and performing (with a smile) myriad other activities critical to SFI’s smooth operation. He started working on the property in 1969, when it was owned by the family of Gen. Patrick Hurley, the former U.S. Secretary of War and New Mexico candidate for U.S. Senate.
The Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) is hosting the 2011 Global Sustainability Summer School in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. The deadline for application is March 15.
In a distinguished lecture at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting, SFI President Jerry Sabloff urges his anthropological peers to go public or perish. Watch the video.
SFI's Melanie Mitchell discusses complexity science, surprises from her research, and her award-winning book "Complexity: A Guided Tour" in an online interview with the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically), an SFI after-school and summer program, inspires middle school students to become scientists by engaging them in questions about their world.
An article in the Boston Review written by former SFI Omidyar Fellow Nathan Eagle describes his experiences in Kenya that prompted his effort to compensate people in the developing world for tasks they accomplish over their mobile phones.
Ant colony behavior and diversity are the topics of the first two books in the Santa Fe Institute-Princeton University Press "Primers in Complex Systems" series.
SFI’s Valerie Plame Wilson and her experiences as a former CIA agent are portrayed in the movie "Fair Game," which opened in major cities November 5.
Where science meets music: "Voyages of Discovery: The Planets," a collaboration between SFI and the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, interspersed music, visual imagery, and scientific commentary.
In an October 13 SFI public lecture, Harvard's Yochai Benkler questions the centuries-old practice of managing people through rewards and punishment and reviews successful institutions that succeed through cooperation. Watch the video here.
The Green Fire Times features SFI’s Global Sustainability Summer School, where participants "role-play, debate, write, blog, and build computer models that could be used in real-world decision making about sustainability."
Recent advances in biology, linguistics, and computer modeling, along with new archeological finds, prompted SFI to host a September meeting that took a fresh, transdisciplinary look at the peopling of the Americas.
Network science is illuminating never-before-seen relationships and patterns all around us. In three lectures over three nights, SFI's Mark Newman recently described some of the insights network science offers. Watch the videos.
Network science is illuminating never-before-seen relationships and patterns all around us. In three lectures over three nights this week, SFI's Mark Newman recently described some of the insights network science offers.
Online video: In an SFI Public Lecture, SFI External Professor Tim Buchman turns to complex systems science for hidden structure within the electrocardiogram’s signals and ways the ECG might point towards better health. See the video.
The Institute has named four new Omidyar Fellows to join the six current Omidyar Fellows at SFI. Meet SFI's four new Fellows and learn about, apply for, or support the Omidyar Fellowship.
Graduates of SFI’s 2010 Global Sustainability Summer School have published opinion letters in a number of news outlets. Read their letters.
On August 18 in Santa Fe, SFI External Professor Tim Buchman, Emory University School of Medicine, explained how paying closer attention to the electrocardiogram's signal might shed new light on the complex adaptive system that is human health.
SFI is leading an NSF-supported collaboration to create a new permanent exhibit for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque. The exhibit takes a fresh look at the origins of life.