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Video: The complexities of a way forward in Afghanistan
March 10, 2011 -

SFI’s 2011 community lecture series began March 2, with SFI Diplomat in Residence Bill Frej describing the complex system of Afghanistan and the challenges of achieving sustainable development in that war-torn country. Watch the video here.

Video: SFI President Urges Anthropologists to Go Public or Perish
- SFI News
Dec. 20, 2010 -

In a distinguished lecture at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting, SFI President Jerry Sabloff urges his anthropological peers to go public or perish. Watch the video.


SFI's Valerie Plame Wilson's experiences portrayed in “Fair Game”
- SFI News
Nov. 5, 2010 -

SFI’s Valerie Plame Wilson and her experiences as a former CIA agent are portrayed in the movie "Fair Game," which opened in major cities November 5.  

October 31 music-science symphony to explore the planets
- SFI News
Oct. 25, 2010 -

Where science meets music: "Voyages of Discovery: The Planets," a collaboration between SFI and the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, interspersed music, visual imagery, and scientific commentary.

Video: The science & practice of cooperation
- SFI News
Oct. 24, 2010 -

In an October 13 SFI public lecture, Harvard's Yochai Benkler questions the centuries-old practice of managing people through rewards and punishment and reviews successful institutions that succeed through cooperation. Watch the video here.

Taking a fresh look at the peopling of the Americas
- SFI News
Sept. 28, 2010 -

Recent advances in biology, linguistics, and computer modeling, along with new archeological finds, prompted SFI to host a September meeting that took a fresh, transdisciplinary look at the peopling of the Americas.

What secrets does the ECG still hold?
- SFI Public Lecture
Aug. 17, 2010 -

On August 18 in Santa Fe, SFI External Professor Tim Buchman, Emory University School of Medicine, explained how paying closer attention to the electrocardiogram's signal might shed new light on the complex adaptive system that is human health.

We've run out of time on sustainability. Here's what we should do about it.
- Santa Fe New Mexican
July 13, 2010 -

Dennis Meadows, who has spent decades studying Earth's capacity to endure human population growth and extractive economies, says we've run out of time to turn around our global version of the Titanic...

Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology - the Santa Fe Institute Perspective
March 2, 2010 -

May 19 through May 21, 2010 in Portland Oregon. The course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.

The Santa Fe Institute at 25 Featured on the Science Network
- The Science Network
Feb. 10, 2010 -

The Santa Fe Institute celebrates 25 years.

Watch video interviews with SFI Professors David Krakauer, Sam Bowles, Murray Gell-Mann and Harold Morowitz discussing the future of complexity .

Seminar - Memento: Time Travel for the Web
Feb. 10, 2010 -

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 12:15 p.m. Medium Conference Room

 Memento: Time Travel for the Web

Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Seminar - Community Detection Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis
Feb. 9, 2010 -

Wednesday, February 10,  2010 - 3:30 p.m. - Noyce

Community Detection Algorithms:  A Comparative Analysis

Santo Fortunato, Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Italy

SFI Professor Sam Bowles Featured in the Santa Fe Reporter
- Santa Fe Reporter
Feb. 9, 2010 -

Born Poor ? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it.

Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems. Indeed, if Bowles is right, the state needs to completely rethink the way it does economic development.

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [Using Networks to Make Predictions]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Thursday, September 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [What Networks Can Tell Us about the World]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Ulam Lecture - Our Small World: How Networks of People and Information Shape Our World [The Connected World]
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Public Lecture - Wild and Domesticated Religions: How the Machinery of Religion Evolved
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Public Lecture - Secrets of the Heart: The Electrocardiogram, Complex Systems Science and Fundamental Laws of Biology
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Public Lecture - The Future of Terrorism
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Public Lecture - Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, May 05, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Public Lecture - The Penguin and The Leviathan: The Science and Practice of Cooperation
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

Public Lecture - The Decline of Classic Maya Civilization: A Systems Perspective
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf

The decline and abandonment of many key cities in the Southern Maya Lowlands around A.D. 800 has long attracted scholarly and public attention. While archaeologists now understand – contrary to previous thought – that Maya civilization did not collapse at this time, as a number of Maya cities continued to thrive up until the 16th century Spanish Conquest, the causes of the relatively rapid demise of cities such as Tikal, Palenque, and Copan remain of great interest. New archaeological, epigraphic, and environmental information have enabled archaeologists to form better models that provide more systemic perspectives on this decline than ever before. Sabloff examines the new data and models and discusses their potential relevance to problems facing the world today.

Seminar - Adventures and Advances in the Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy
Feb. 5, 2010 -

Monday, February 8, 2010 12:15 p.m. Noyce Conference Room

Seminar - Emergent Complex Properties of the Mammalian Brain Clock
Feb. 4, 2010 -

Friday, January 29, 2010 - 12:15 p.m. Medium Conference Room

Colloquium - The Architecture of Biodiversity
Jan. 30, 2010 -

Thursday, April 08, 2010 • 3:30 PM • Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI

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