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SFI and Arizona State University soon will offer the world’s first comprehensive online master’s degree in complexity science.

Enroll now for SFI’s Complexity Explorer course "Nonlinear Dynamics" with instructor Elizabeth Bradley, which begins Monday, September 4. 

SFI's free online course, Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos with College of the Atlantic professor David Feldman, begins September 4. Topics to be covered include: phase space, bifurcations, chaos, the butterfly effect, strange attractors, and pattern formation.

The Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship program is looking for creative thinkers to spend up to three years at the Santa Fe Institute. Apply before October 29.

The Santa Fe Institute is launching an InterPlanetary Project — the first project of its kind to combine celebration with experimentation, and conversation with analysis.

Sarah Laborde, a 2014 SFI Complex Systems Summer School alumna, recently helped host a CSSS-inspired workshop in N’Gaoundere, Cameroon.

Agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study everything from economics to biology to political science to business and management. This June, programmers and non-programmers alike can learn to model by enrolling in Introduction to Agent-based Modeling, Complexity Explorer’s massive open online course (MOOC).

During a ceremony Wednesday evening, May 4, the Santa Fe Institute awarded Melanie McKinley its Prize for Outstanding Teacher, and recognized 13 Santa Fe-area high school seniors for scientific excellence.

Simon DeDeo's new tutorial introduces learners to renormalization — a method for blurring small details in order to capture meaningful features of complex systems.

Starting this week, a new online tutorial teaches quantitative approaches to understanding game-like interactions between multiple decision makers.

Enrollment is now open for SFI’s flagship massive open online course, Introduction to Complexity. The course will begin on April 10.

SFI has named evolutionary anthropologist Paul Hooper as its new Director of Education. 

Starting February 13, SFI's Complexity Explorer brings back a popular, and free, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

The Winter 2017 issue of SFI's quarterly newsletter is available online. Download it here.

The Santa Fe Institute is accepting applications for its signature education program for graduate students and postdocs: the 2017 Complex Systems Summer School, June 11-July 7, 2017, in Santa Fe. Apply by February 6, 2017.

The Santa Fe Institute is accepting applications for its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer internship program. Apply by January 4, 2017.

The Santa Fe Institute is accepting applications for the 2017 Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science. Apply by February 14.

During an October 18 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg explored how math can help us think about the seemingly uncertain matters that dominate our lives. Watch his talk here.

Class Central, a site that collects information and reviews on thousands of online courses from around the world, recently ranked SFI’s “Introduction to Complexity” online course highest among 614 other online science courses.

Stephanie Forrest and Melanie Mitchell recount the legacy of John Holland, a complexity science pioneer who passed away in August 2015.