SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson ...

SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for “his outstanding ...

The Santa Fe Institute is dedicated to the study of complexity, and it is adept at processing large quantities of data to that end.

This brief essay reviews an approach to defining and then detecting the emergence of complexity in nonlinear processes. It is, in fact, a synopsis of Reference [1] that leaves out the technical ...

A new paper in PNAS shows that the idea of “taking turns” could help resolve the 1960s paradox of the plankton — and better predict how climate change will remake our oceans. Applications for the ...

Talk 3 + discussion: The fitness value of information as a unifying framework Ryan McGee, Joey Bernhart, Mary Oconnor, Cynthia Downs ...

Stephanie ForrestDirector of Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at ASU, SFI External Professor ...

Laurent Hébert-DufresneAssociate Professor of Computer Science at The Vermont Complex Systems Center, professeur associé au Département de physique, l'Université Laval Hiroki SayamaProfessor of ...

Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms allow multicellular organisms to develop distinct specialized cell identities despite having the same total genome. Cell-fate choices are based on gene expression ...

We investigate the problem of learning to play a generalized rock-paper-scissors game. Each player attempts to improve her average score by adjusting the frequency of the three possible responses. For ...