Abstract. COMPACT is a groundbreaking five-year international collaboration to apply the principles of complex systems science to community-based childhood obesity interventions. COMPACT is funded by ...

The 2025 Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference, held September 16-19, drew 53 accomplished scholars for a four-day meeting ...

In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton and colleagues present a new model showing the ...

The 2025 Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference, held September 16-19, drew 53 accomplished scholars for a four-day meeting focused on collaboration, networking, and idea-generation, and to deepen ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

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 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 true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...

Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow textbook rules and which can’t be captured by neat equations. That reality is at ...

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 Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?