Applications for the third Complexity Global School (CGS) are now open. Like last year, the school will  be hosted at ...

Cultural traits — the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population — are ...

Over the past three years, SFI has hosted an annual Complexity-GAINs school in different locations in Europe. The two-week-long programs, each focused on a unique theme, introduced Ph.D. students to ...

The rise of complexity theory, an interdisciplinary field studying the emergent behavior and patterns of the interactions of simple (and not so simple) components, has been one of the most important ...

Cultural traits — the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population — are influenced by conformity, the tendency to align with others, or ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

There’s an argument to be made that if we train AI systems to learn the way babies do, we’ll get them closer to human-like intelligence. But how our own learning development functions in babyhood is ...

In this inaugural working group on Cognitive Regime Shift, complexity tools and models developed to understand network phenomena in physiological, sociological, ecological, and financial realms will ...

The adoption and diffusion of new technologies, including those associated with energy distribution and management, requires a deep appreciation of the properties and diversity of social systems.