Since its inception the Institute has offered an active set of formal educational programs. The premier activity is the annual Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS), offered since 1988. The goal of the summer school is to provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and active research scientists with an introduction to the study of complex behavior in mathematical, physical and living systems. The annual Graduate Workshop in Social Science Modeling and Complexity brings together a group of advanced graduate students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational social science. The annual Mathematical Biology workshop concentrates on lectures on bio-mathematical modeling, followed by presentations by leading theorists and theory-friendly experimentalists of important instances where mathematical modeling has been used in understanding biological phenomena.

Complex Systems Summer Schools

The flagship of SFI's educational programs, these schools are an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems, intended for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. read more...

Computational Social Sciences

This annual event (formerly the Graduate Workshop in Computational Economics) brings together a group of advanced graduate students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational modeling in the social sciences. read more...