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 ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

The Santa Fe Institute was born of a fervent wish among a broad range of scientists that some day they might work together on some of the world's seemingly unsolvable problems.

In The Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality, former SFI External Professor Sander Bais offers a three-volume set that reviews classical physics, dives deeper into quantum mechanics, and ...

We introduce the concept of complete edge-colored permutation graphs as complete graphs that are the edge-disjoint union of “classical” permutation graphs. We show that a graph G = (V,E) is a com- ...

Kertesz, J.,Torok, J.,Krishnamurthy, S.,Roux, S. Based on a recent model of shearing granular media we propose a new mechanism for slow dynamics. It consists of two main steps: A global optimization ...

Ren, K. X.,Perez-Mercader, J. In this report, a controlled radical polymerization technique named photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) ...

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

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 ...

Recent years have seen significant theoretical and methodological advances in understanding how environmental information is encoded within genetic, sensory, and immune systems. However, much of this ...