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

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

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 ...

Multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous and also notoriously difficult to model. In disturbed systems, conventional bottom-up or top-down approaches can’t capture the interactions between the small ...

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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 ...

Brave thinkers willing to explore new ideas about economics, policy, and governance. Early-career scholars and change-makers from civil society and private industry are equally encouraged to apply.

The Summer 2025 Complexity Global School will provide you with an introduction to an array of rigorous tools for analyzing complex phenomena in the social, economic, and political spheres. If you are ...

The in-person portion of the school will run from Monday, July 28, to Friday, August 8. This in-person portion is intense, and students will not have time for outside work during these 12 days. The in ...

The NFL theorems have stimulated lots of subsequent work, with over 2500 citations of [12] alone by spring 2012 according to Google Scholar. However, arguably much of that research has missed the most ...