News + Events

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.

An SFI working group re-frames "cyber security-as-usual."

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?

It's not just us— ancient humans had to adapt to a changing climate, too.

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.

A new technique based in information theory promises to improve researchers' ability to interpret ice core samples and our understanding of the earth's climate history.

Networks evolve in different ways depending on how often "second-neighbor," or friends-of-friends, connections occur.

Professor Cristopher Moore and collaborators unveil a more accurate, efficient algorithm for internet recommendations.

Tools from human psychology could help behavioral ecologists learn about how other animals make decisions.

SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji has been selected to receive this year’s Association for Psychological Science’s (APS’s) William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to the basic science of psychology.

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.

Modern European cities and medieval cities share a population-density-to-area relationship, a new paper concludes – the latest research to find regularities in human settlement patterns across space and time.

Class Central, a site that collects information and reviews on thousands of online courses from around the world, recently ranked SFI’s “Introduction to Complexity” online course highest among 614 other online science courses.

What is the best way for a group to collaborate on solving a difficult problem? A new study finds that the answer depends on how that particular group learns.