Cultural traits — the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population — are ...

Over the past three years, SFI has hosted an annual Complexity-GAINs school — two-week-long programs organized around a theme for Ph.D. students — in different locations in Europe. The third and final ...

Thank you to the many individuals and organizations who support our efforts to pursue the most compelling questions facing science and society today. This list of donors includes contributions from ...

Societies today face daunting challenges: population growth, rapid urbanization, ecological and environmental disturbances, and an unpredictable global marketplace. To address these complex and ...

What are models good for? Taking a largely pedagogical view, the following essay discusses the semantics of measurement and the uses to which an observer can put knowledge of a process's structure. To ...

Throughout scientific research, measured time series are the basis for characterizing an observed system and for predicting its future behavior. A number of new techniques (such as state-space ...

The study of the evolution of cultural systems has undergone a series of permutations in the course of the past century. Studies of cultural evolution began in earnest with the work of two of the most ...

The thermodynamic restrictions on all systems that perform computation provide major challenges to modern design of computers. For example, at present ~5% of US energy consumption is used to run ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Students can select from a menu of projects, or develop a project in ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

The rise of complexity theory, an interdisciplinary field studying the emergent behavior and patterns of the interactions of simple (and not so simple) components, has been one of the most important ...

SFI has hosted an annual Complexity-GAINs school — two-week-long programs organized around a theme for Ph.D. students — in different locations in Europe. The third and final school, focused on ...