Max Jerdee, a Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow at SFI, builds statistical tools to study the structure of networks — not just who connects to whom, but how patterns of hierarchy and community vary ...

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A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began ...

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 ...

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 ...

We ask all applicants to read this page carefully before applying or emailing us with questions. Thank you. SFI’s CSS program is designed for curious, motivated people who desire an intensive, ...

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, ...

Banzhaf provides a portal to the subject of emergence, noting contentious concepts while not getting sucked into fruitless debate. Banzhaf refutes arguments against downward causation much as Samuel ...

Santa Fe is a beautiful, historic city — founded in 1610 — located in northern New Mexico. It is surrounded by breathtaking desert and mountains. It is an art hub with many beautiful galleries and ...