The model is simple in theory: each time an idea spreads, it has a chance of increasing or decreasing in intensity. If it ...

Applications are open for the 2026 cohort of SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellows, who hold the Omidyar Fellowship. This ...

<p>Stochastic modeling and analysis can help answer pressing medical questions. In this talk, I will attempt to justify this claim by describing recent work on two problems in medicine. The first ...

An SFI working group looking for hidden rules that underpin proteins brings molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, statisticians, machine learning experts, and more to SFI from August 18&ndash;21 to ...

A detailed annotation of non-protein coding RNAs is typically missing in initial releases of newly sequenced genomes. Here we report on a comprehensive ncRNA annotation of the genome of Trichoplax ...

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 ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. The transition in biochemistry, from synthesizing information directly into small-molecule structure, to imprinting it in the sequences of monomer ...

Alex "Sandy" Pentland (MIT) Abstract. Fine grain data about human behavior, harvested from cell phones, social media, credit cards, and similar media, has given us the ability to quantify the network ...

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 ...

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind,&nbsp;died peacefully May 24, 2019.