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March 22-23, complex systems researchers will meet with business executives to discuss when and how diversity improves decision-making.

SFI welcomes its newest faculty member, Chris Kempes, who recently completed two and half years as an SFI Omidyar Fellow.

A new model for extinction brings body size and metabolic scaling into a landscape where ‘hungry’ or ‘full’ animals, great and small, interact and procreate.

Physicist Sidney Redner presents an SFI Community Lecture on the role of randomness in our daily lives. Watch his talk here.

Robert McCormick Adams, a founding member of SFI’s Science Board and the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, passed away January 27 at the age of 91.

A teacher, physicist, and all-around “high throughput” individual, SFI External Professor Alfred Hübler passed away Saturday, January 27, at the age of 60.

The Meaning of Information working group meets to reconcile two different definitions of "information."

Ian and Sonnet McKinnon donate $3 million dollars to expand fundamental research at SFI.

Eugene (Gene) Thaw, a friend and patron of the Institute, passed away Wednesday, January 3, at the age of 90.

Supported by a $5 million donation from Bill Miller, Chairman Emeritus of the SFI Board of Trustees, SFI will begin realizing a longtime goal of expanding into a quiet property nearby in Tesuque.

New books by SFI Authors, highlighted in the Winter 2017 Parallax, inclue Information Geometry and Foundations of Info-Metrics.

A recent analysis statistically connected words appearing in the texts of 591 national constitutions lends new support to the notion of the birth of a nation.

November 3-4, SFI scientists gathered with members of the Applied Complexity Network to explore the complexities of natural and artificial intelligence.

This December 4-5, SFI researchers are convening a workshop to discuss how to study figurative brains such as ant colonies, microbe ecosystems, and the immune system. 

The first annual InterPlanetary Festival will draw space enthusiasts from around the world for a two-day celebration of human ingenuity June 7-8, 2018, in Santa Fe, NM.

Exploring the limits of scientific understanding is the query that will drive a three-day workshop at SFI, which itself aims to understand how well scientific and mathematical reasoning can comprehend complex systems.

The journal Nature Ecology and Evolution has compiled a list of  "100 articles every ecologist should read." Fifteen of the articles listed are authored or co-authored by SFI faculty.

SFI Professor Cristopher Moore and External Professor John Rundle have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In a new paper, SFI's Jessica Flack offers a practical answer to one of the most significant, and most confused questions in evolutionary biology — can higher levels of organization drive the behavior of lower-level components?

SFI researchers quantify the thermodynamic efficiency of a fundamental biological computation.