Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of ...

In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics ...

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 ...

Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of flexible, relational reasoning that comes naturally to humans. Program ...

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 ...

It has become increasingly vital for students across the sciences to gain computational and mathematical skills: the ability to translate real-world systems into quantitative models, carry out ...

Each participant is provided with their own private room and a private bathroom (en suite). Students do not share sleeping spaces. The housing arrangement is intended to balance community and rest: ...

Meeting Description: How has the human niche changed in the last 6 thousand years, and how much will it likely change in the next 50? This Working Group considers these questions both from the ...

We ask all applicants to read this page carefully before applying or emailing us with questions. Thank you. SFI’s UCR program is designed for curious, motivated students who can work both ...

SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell has received a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science ...

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Maike Morrison builds mathematical tools to quantify and compare biological variation. Her ...