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The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
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Interactive Economics, an education simulation developed by SFI External Prof Rajiv Sethi & Homa Zarghamee gives participants the power to game out economic upheavals to understand the interaction of economic forces with social + political events. shorturl.at/vtnS5
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Tsallis’ namesake theories of non-adaptive entropy and statistical distribution work has advanced the study of #complex systems.
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SFI External Faculty Member Constantino Tsallis has been elected to the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Stream “Effective Resistance Against Pandemics: Which Links Matter in Mobility Network Sparsification” 12:30pm MST: youtube.com/@SFIScience/streams
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Effective resistance to pandemics requires concise and accurate data. Tune into #SFISeminar today at 12:30 pm MST to learn from Alexander Mercier of @Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health about developments in network science that could sharpen our understanding of how diseases spread.
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Browse through the latest e-Parllax to learn about SFI research, celebrate the achievements of our scholars, and save the dates for upcoming community events.
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Stream “Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise,” Today: 12:30pm MST – youtube.com/@SFIScience/streams
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A calculated practice of renting – and insuring – enslaved people arose in the final years of legalized slavery in the USA Prof. Michael Ralph draws connections between those calculations and the ones made by the modern life insurance industry, exploring the grim practice of pricing human life
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A new study by SFI alums Will Crocket (MIT), Jack Oliver Shaw, SFI Professor Chris Kempes, and Carl Simpson (CU Boulder) provides a theory for why complex life developed after a billion years on Earth.
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Multicellular life may have evolved in response to Snowball Earth – a period of global glaciation 700 million years ago – adapting to frozen oceans and scarce resources.
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Synthesizing knowledge of #collective decisions helps us understand social forces and how we can rise to the challenges of the future.
SFI Professor Mirta Galesic calls for #transdisciplinary study of collective adaptation tomorrow morning in her keynote at the ACM C.I. Conference at Northeastern
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Mathematical modeling reveals critical gaps in our knowledge of how #viruses invade hosts and develop virulence.
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Today concludes a four-day working group organized by SFI Professor David Wolpert and Graduate Fellow Gülce Kardeș exploring the synergy between these disciplines.
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Stochastic #thermodynamics, integrated with computer science, has a role to play in calculating one often-overlooked cost of #computation–energy consumption.
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Chiang recently co-led “Thought Experiments in Science and Fiction” at SFI – a workshop exploring the commonalities between fiction and scientific inquiry in the exploration of #complexsystems.
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Congratulations to SFI Miller Scholar Ted Chiang for winning the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
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SFI Applied Complexity Fellow Saverio Perri models how #climate policy is intertwined with people’s perception of danger, and how mitigation efforts can lead to worse outcomes even if it’s met with initial success.
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Join us today, at 12:30 PM MST to hear from SFI External Profs Steve Lansing (CSHVienna) & John Miller (Carnegie Mellon), & Vibeke Sorensen about their pilot project using satellite Nilometers to enable Balinese rice farmers to adapt to the climate crisis by reducing emissions from their fields.
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For 47 centuries Nilometers managed the commons in Egypt. Can this technology be adapted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today?
#Streaming Today at 12:30 MST: www.youtube.com/@SFIScience
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Join us today, at 12:30 PM MST to hear from SFI External Profs Steve Lansing & John Miller, & Vibeke Sorensen about their pilot project using satellite Nilometers to enable Balinese rice farmers to adapt to the climate crisis by reducing emissions from their fields.
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Music. Religious ritual. Human cultural evolution.
A new poll for DRH enabling experts to quantify the intricate relationships among these elements is the subject of a 4-day SFI workshop, led by External Professor Marco Buongiorno Nardelli and Edward Slingerland.
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"You don’t want to be dead… You want to maintain an off-equilibrium state.”
SFI Professor David Wolpert discusses the meaning of information, and how that influences the viability of #complexsystems such as living organisms, on an episode of “Metamodern Spirituality” with Brendan Graham Dempsey
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Join us live as SFI External Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad explores the future of machine learning and its evolving role in society.
“Just Machine Learning,” hosted by the Lensic Performing Arts Center, streaming right now: www.youtube.com/user/santafe...
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Reserve your free in-person tickets here: lensic.org/events/just-...
Or livestream it from SFI’s YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/santafe...
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Can Machine Learning be shaped to improve our society? SFI External Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad explores this question in tonight's Community Lecture 'Just Machine Learning', at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30 MST.
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Reserve your free in-person tickets here: lensic.org/events/just-...
Or livestream it from SFI’s YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/santafe...
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Workers know the ground reality in hierarchies while managers have the big picture. What happens when these views conflict?
In JASSS Journal, Stan Rhodes, Stefani Crabtree & Jacob Freeman use an agent-based model to study hierarchies in changing environments. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...
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🌴🌳 Even when they fail, conservation programs can have value, find SFI External Prof Monique Borgerhoff Mulder & Jeffrey Andrews in Ecological Economics: participants are more likely to sign on to programs in the future. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...
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🎓 Congratulations to External Professor Mahzarin Banaji, who received an honorary Doctorate of Social Science from Yale last weekend for her pioneering research on the role of unconscious processes in human social action. ow.ly/W2ZR50RT5Nf
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📣 Get your tickets!
Just Machine Learning, by Tina Eliassi-Rad
🗓️ June 4
⏰ 7:30pm MT
In the age of algorithmically infused societies where human and algorithmic behavior are intertwined, can we shape the use of such tools to improve our society?
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🔥 A new paper expands the theory of thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics & computer science SFI researchers introduce mathematical equations that reveal the energy costs of computational processes that depend on randomness.
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🌌 New research by David Wolpert & David Kinney explores randomness in science and math. From predicting tritium atom decay to solving 2+2, they propose a unified probabilistic framework, likening it to spinning a roulette wheel.
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🌟 Happening May 7th! 🌟
Join us for a discussion on "Animals in Translation" as we dive into the world of interspecies communication. 🐾
🗓️ Reserve your free tickets for a captivating conversation featuring Diana Reiss, Interspecies Internet Trustee & David Krakauer.
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In “Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World,” SFI’s @doynefarmer.bsky.social challenges traditional economic theory, offering an alternative: #ComplexityEconomics. 💡 He argues for a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.
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Remembering Daniel C. Dennett, a beloved figure at SFI known for his work on consciousness and evolutionary biology. He passed away on April 19 at the age of 82. His contributions to philosophical debates were profound & his legacy will continue to inspire.
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The Spring 2024 Parallax is out now! This edition of our newsletter includes updates from SFI Press, a schedule of this year’s community lectures, recent & upcoming books, and the latest news in complexity science coming out of the Institute!
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🎉 SFI External Professor Karen Willcox has been awarded the 2024 Theodore von Kármán Prize.
She is being recognized for her contributions to computational science and engineering, from work in model reduction methods to digital twins.
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In a new paper published in PNAS, SFI’s Chris Kempes, Geoffrey West, and Brian Enquist outline three distinct scientific cultures — variance, exactitude, and coarse-grained — that have been operating independently in the biosciences.
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SFI's Tim Kohler will deliver the Linda S. Cordell Lecture through The School for Advanced Research at the New Mexico History Museum on April 28.
Titled “10,000 Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Difference,” he’ll share new data and insights from his work.
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Using Kleene and Rice’s theorems, he shows the possibility of us being in a simulation run on a computer by us ourselves, raising questions about out identity. 💻
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David Wolpert’s latest work delves into the #SimulationHypothesis, exploring how computer science theory helps us investigate the idea of reality being a computer #simulation. 🤯
Read more here: philarchive.org/rec/WOLIOC-4
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Ogbunu says "we need to disabuse ourselves of certainty even being a goal. The goal is understanding the world, and understanding can exist with accumulated uncertainties that science is kind of informing and tuning with our data."
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SFI’s Brandon Ogbunu features in a new episode of Uncertain, a Scientific American podcast series hosted by former SFI Journalism Fellow Christie Aschwanden. The series features other SFI researchers also.
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🐊 Calling all PhD students interested in ecological systems! Join SFI in Sète, France this October 17-31 for the Complexity-GAINs International School. No tuition; room & board provided.
Application deadline April 30: apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/gains20...
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Prof. Mirta Galesic has been awarded a competitive €3M grant from the European Research Council for collective adaptation research started at SFI. Galesic + her team at CSH Vienna will utilize various tools from cognitive science, sociology, & computational modeling.
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☑️ SFI's Mason Porter and his students are using tools from topology to track the locations of #VotingDeserts. In a study soon to be published in SIAM Review, they shed light on long travel + wait times that hinder poll access.
Read more on Quanta Magazine 👉 www.quantamagazine.org/topologists-...
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#TBT
In 1994, John Holland gave the first annual Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture.This lecture series demonstrates how complexity is interwoven into many research forefronts. The series has endured since, and SFI hosts an annual Ulam lecture to this day.
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🪐 This season's 6th and final episode of Complexity: Physics of Life is out now!
NASA researcher Heather Graham joins us to talk about studying samples from deep, untouched regions of our planet all the way to chemistry happening in space.
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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 Our podcast episode 'What can physics tell us about ourselves' from this season of Complexity: Physics of Life has been nominated for The Webby Award in Science & Education + the People's Voice Award! Follow the link here to vote 👉 tiny.cc/drnpxz
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