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April 1, 2015

Company mortality: Researchers find patterns in the life and death of firms

New research by a team of SFI scientists finds that publicly-traded firms die off at the same rate regardless of their age or economic sector.

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March 27, 2015

Get your SFI Alumni Community T-shirt today

The SFI alumni team is proud to announce the winning entries for this year’s T-shirt slogan competition.

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March 19, 2015

Video: Watch Sandy Pentland's SFI Community Lecture 'Ties that bind: The goodness of social networks'

During an SFI Community Lecture March 11 in Santa Fe, MIT's Alex Pentland described ways the mathematical analysis of social networks is fertile ground for understanding human behavior. Watch his talk.

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March 19, 2015

SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset selected for NSF Early Career award

CU Boulder's Aaron Clauset, an SFI external professor and former SFI Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow, has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development award.

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March 17, 2015

John Templeton Foundation grants SFI $2.5 million to pursue general theory of complexity

SFI has been awarded a three year, $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to support a daring scientific pursuit: developing a general theory of complexity.

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February 24, 2015

Register now for SFI's 2015 Short Course in Santa Fe

Register now for SFI's 2015 Short Course — Exploring Complexity in Social Systems and Economics — August 25-27 in Santa Fe.

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February 23, 2015

Paper: Ancient and modern cities aren't so different

Despite notable differences in appearance and governance, ancient human settlements function in much the same way as modern cities, according to new findings by researchers at SFI and UC Boulder.

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February 19, 2015

Tracing languages back to their earliest common ancestor through sound shifts

A statistical technique that sorts out when changes to words’ pronunciations most likely occurred offers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their earliest common ancestor or ancestors.

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February 18, 2015

New book posits an evolutionary game theory approach to fitness

A new book co-authored by SFI External Professor D. Eric Smith adopts an evolutionary game theory framework in which individual types and interactions are mapped to evolutionary fitness as a game played among agents in the population.

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February 11, 2015

A family affair: Sharing of food across generations contributes to humans' long life histories

New research led by Paul Hooper, a former SFI Omidyar Fellow now at Emory University, explores the evolutionary implications of food sharing across generations in Amazonian forager-farmer societies.

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February 5, 2015

SFI to support first North American ECCS conference

SFI is playing a leading role in an international scientific conference on complex systems science to be held this fall in Tempe, Arizona.

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January 21, 2015

Watch Daniel Jurafsky's SFI talk - Eating our words: What the language of food says about us

During an SFI Community Lecture January 14 in Santa Fe, Stanford linguist Daniel Jurafsky explored the stunningly complex language of food and what it tells us about our culture and society. Watch it now.

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January 13, 2015

Author Hampton Sides selected as 2015 Miller Scholar

Author Hampton Sides, a best-selling narrative historian, has been named a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute for 2015.

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January 13, 2015

Tale of four (impoverished) countries: Why Ebola goes viral or dies out

In Nautilus magazine, SFI Omidyar Fellow Sam Scarpino explores why Nigeria has fared better in the Ebola outbreak than its similarly-impoverished neighbors.

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January 12, 2015

ASU-SFI agreement establishes new Center for Biosocial Complex Systems

SFI and Arizona State University have launched a major new research and education collaboration that focuses on problems at the intersections of complex biological and social systems.

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December 15, 2014

Stephanie Forrest named IEEE Fellow for 2015

SFI Science Board member and External Professor Stephanie Forrest has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for 2015.

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December 11, 2014

Video: Ginger and Richard Rhodes on 'Why we kill: Violence as socialization'

In an SFI Community Lecture November 12 in Santa Fe, psychologist Ginger Rhodes and author Richard Rhodes explored the history of the socialization of violence and make an argument for early intervention. Watch their talk.

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December 8, 2014

Paper: A better way to find communities in networks

In a new paper in PNAS, two SFI researchers demonstrate a better way to reliably cluster networks into communities using methods borrowed from statistical physics.

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December 4, 2014

SFI Professor Cristopher Moore named a fellow of the American Physical Society

SFI Professor Cristopher Moore was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society on November 22, 2014.

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December 4, 2014

Two new trustees elected to SFI's board

The Santa Fe Institute's Board of Trustees has welcomed two new members: Remi Barbier of Pain Therapeutics, Inc. and Andrew Feldstein of BlueMountain Capital Management.

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