In a Focus article recently published in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Samuel Scarpino (Northeastern University) ...

In the comment article  “Space diplomacy: bridging the operating gaps between myriad missions,” which was recently published ...

SFI External Professor Allison Stanger has been named a Berlin Prize Fellow by the American Academy in Berlin for the 2026–27 ...

The small fraction of papers that make it to publication in the top scientific journals plays a powerful role in scientific ...

External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to ...

The SFI Press releases two updated editions — The Quark & the Jaguar and Strange Beauty — by and about SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann. The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero ...

When Claude Shannon wrote “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” in 1948, he was known as a mathematician and an electrical engineer. From this extraordinarily influential paper — cited more than ...

The Graduate Workshop brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational social science modeling and complexity. Participants will ...

Our scientists are applying quantitative techniques from non-linear dynamics, statistical physics, and evolutionary biology to find emergent patterns in historical events. Many complex systems have ...

Convening a global cohort of curious, driven, generous, and brilliant people from across a vast range of expertise and career stages sets the possibility space for SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, ...