SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell has received a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Why do people make short-term decisions that may not be in their long-term interest? An October 22-25 working group takes ...
The 2025 Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference, held September 16-19, drew 53 accomplished scholars for a four-day meeting ...
Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the ...
Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow textbook rules and which can’t be captured by neat equations. That reality is at ...
Abstract: Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for human cognition, and causal knowledge is central to both intuitive and scientific world models. However, causal ...
Christa Brelsford (Arizona State University; SFI Graduate Fellow)Abstract. The phrase “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over,” often misattributed to Mark Twain, succinctly describes how ...
Tune in for the live stream on YouTube Abstract: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding problems in all of modern physics. The ordinary atoms ...
Meeting Summary: Co-sponsored by SFI and IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University, France, this open forum will bring together network and complexity scientists, ...
Meeting Description: Over thirty years ago, Stuart Kauffman joined the nascent Santa Fe Institute as one of its first resident researchers. At that time, Stu focused his research on big questions in ...