Popular and academic books and chapters, authored or edited by SFI researchers. The contemporary global economy exhibits unprecedented structural complexity—characterized by nonlinear dynamics, ...

Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

The Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. Spanning four weeks, CSSS ...

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

A new study in PNAS introduces a mathematical model that quantifies how different systems, from cells to organizations, ...

This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: economic agents (firms, consumers ...

Graduate-level research training is multifaceted, requiring both extensive disciplinary knowledge and exposure to novel approaches. Asking questions, looking at phenomena and data from new angles, and ...

Is there an ideal city form? As cities proliferate worldwide this has become a central question underpinning sustainable development and economic opportunity for billions of people. We provide ...

The program is held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) campus is located in a beautiful Southwest high desert setting with mountain views. The housing and ...

The large-scale organization of complex networks, both natural and artificial, has shown the existence of highly heterogeneous patterns of organization. Such patterns typically involve scale-free ...

Drawing from statistical physics and cognitive and social psychology, we are examining how beliefs and behaviors change in diverse social networks. We know that our beliefs and behaviors are ...

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