Sahana Subramanyam was a participant in SFI's 2018 summer Research Experience for Undergraduates — now called the Undergraduate Complexity Research program. In this essay, she reflects on how the ...

Convening a global cohort of curious, driven, generous, and brilliant people from across a vast range of expertise and career stages sets the possibility space for SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, ...

Scott Page Professor of Complexity at the University of Michigan; Science Board Member + External Professor at SFI ...

Processual archaeologists began employing some of the vocabulary now current in complexity studies in the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by cybernetics, general systems theory, and contemporary ...

In this hour-long virtual discussion with SFI’s Applied Complexity Network, SFI Shannan Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute, Geoffrey West addresses The Seminal Role ...

This working group brings together scholars from diverse fields—neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and AI—who are all investigating the broad notion of “intelligence”, whether in biological systems ...

Transmission is the Santa Fe Institute's real-time and ideas-based response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many of our researchers are hard at work collaborating on the monitoring and modeling of the ...

“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...

David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

In 1907, a statistician named Francis Galton recorded the entries from a weight-judging competition as people guessed the weight of an ox. Galton analyzed hundreds of estimates and found that while ...

To make good decisions under uncertainty, decision- makers must act creatively to avoid paralysis, while recognizing the possibility of failure. The current COVID-19 pandemic presents decision-makers ...