In a Focus article recently published in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Samuel Scarpino (Northeastern University) ...

In the comment article  “Space diplomacy: bridging the operating gaps between myriad missions,” which was recently published ...

SFI External Professor Allison Stanger has been named a Berlin Prize Fellow by the American Academy in Berlin for the 2026–27 ...

The small fraction of papers that make it to publication in the top scientific journals plays a powerful role in scientific ...

External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to ...

The SFI Press releases two updated editions — The Quark & the Jaguar and Strange Beauty — by and about SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann. The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero ...

When Claude Shannon wrote “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” in 1948, he was known as a mathematician and an electrical engineer. From this extraordinarily influential paper — cited more than ...

The Graduate Workshop brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational social science modeling and complexity. Participants will ...

Our scientists are applying quantitative techniques from non-linear dynamics, statistical physics, and evolutionary biology to find emergent patterns in historical events. Many complex systems have ...

Convening a global cohort of curious, driven, generous, and brilliant people from across a vast range of expertise and career stages sets the possibility space for SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, ...

The program is held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) campus is located in a beautiful Southwest high desert setting with mountain views. The housing and ...