Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? A paper in ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...

Luis BettencourtPritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, and External Professor at SFI R. Maria del Rio ChanonaAssistant Professor of Computer ...

Following the pedagogical structure used in SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School over the last 30 years, this program will feature a series of lectures that introduce fundamental mechanisms and models ...

A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases — and ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Abstract: Throughout the 19th century, the U.S. government played a major role in economic life, promoting economic development through ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

When it comes to job interviews, conventional wisdom often suggests that standing out is key to securing a position — seemingly at odds with the general human tendency to conform. A new study by SFI ...