Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...

Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will ...

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, ...

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?

A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases — and ...

Up on the hill there’s an institute that is devoted to studying complex systems, and it's world renowned. [The Santa Fe Institute] is the most famous institute in the world for studying complex ...

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, ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

Applied projects are led by SFI faculty, powered by SFI Applied Complexity Fellows, and are supported by industry sponsors and private foundations. Applied Belief Dynamics lives in a domain that is ...

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 ...

This paper formally defines tipping points as a discontinuity between current and future states of a system and introduces candidate measures of when a system tips based on changes in the probability ...