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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Most people are aware of smoking's harmful health effects, yet many choose to light up regularly. If viewed from the lens of rational choice theory — an economic framework that suggests people always ...

Abstract: Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for human cognition, and causal knowledge is central to both intuitive and scientific world models. However, causal ...

ACtioN Academy is a yearlong program designed to help members of SFI’s applied community dive into the foundations of complexity science and its application to contemporary issues. Deepening your ...