Santa Fe is a beautiful, historic city — founded in 1610 — located in northern New Mexico. It is surrounded by breathtaking desert and mountains. It is an art hub with many beautiful galleries and ...

SFI President David Krakauer, and SFI Professors Jessica Flack and Melanie Mitchell, will lead an interactive discussion on Emergent Engineering for members of ACtioN and SFI's research community.

Program Overview A new program from the Santa Fe Institute combines the guided interaction of an in-person course with the flexibility to learn from anywhere in the world. This three-week, part-time, ...

“. . . 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 ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. “Cities ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

Read the Reflection, written 25 August 2021, below the following original Transmission. I was struck by a recent headline on BuzzFeed about the current coronavirus pandemic: "The Disorienting Thing Is ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

SFI External Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale University) received a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

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 ...

Stirling Colgate, a co-founder and past board member of the Santa Fe Institute, passed away December 1, 2013, at his home in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was 88. Colgate was a physicist at Los Alamos ...

John Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and the leading figure in what became known as genetic algorithms, passed away Sunday morning, August 9, 2015, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.