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Interactive Economics, an education simulation developed by SFI External Prof Rajiv Sethi & Homa Zarghamee gives participants the power to game out economic upheavals to understand the interaction of economic forces with social + political events. shorturl.at/vtnS5 @interactiveecon.bsky.social

SFI External Faculty Member Constantino Tsallis has been elected to the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. santafe.edu/news-center/news/constantino-tsallis-elected-to-european-academy-of-sciences-and-arts

Constantino Tsallis elected to European Academy of Sciences and Artssantafe.edu <meta charset="UTF-8" />SFI External Faculty Member Constantino Tsallis has been elected to the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Effective resistance to pandemics requires concise and accurate data. Tune into #SFISeminar today at 12:30 pm MST to learn from Alexander Mercier of @Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health about developments in network science that could sharpen our understanding of how diseases spread.

Browse through the latest e-Parllax to learn about SFI research, celebrate the achievements of our scholars, and save the dates for upcoming community events. mailchi.mp/santafe/sfi-parallax-june-2024?e=c258ca887e

A calculated practice of renting – and insuring – enslaved people arose in the final years of legalized slavery in the USA Prof. Michael Ralph draws connections between those calculations and the ones made by the modern life insurance industry, exploring the grim practice of pricing human life

Multicellular life may have evolved in response to Snowball Earth – a period of global glaciation 700 million years ago – adapting to frozen oceans and scarce resources. santafe.edu/news-center/news/snowball-earth-and-the-rise-of-multicellularity

Synthesizing knowledge of #collective decisions helps us understand social forces and how we can rise to the challenges of the future. SFI Professor Mirta Galesic calls for #transdisciplinary study of collective adaptation tomorrow morning in her keynote at the ACM C.I. Conference at Northeastern

Mathematical modeling reveals critical gaps in our knowledge of how #viruses invade hosts and develop virulence. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-024-01313-0

Stochastic #thermodynamics, integrated with computer science, has a role to play in calculating one often-overlooked cost of #computation–energy consumption. santafe.edu/events/stochastic-thermodynamics-and-computer-science-theory

Congratulations to SFI Miller Scholar Ted Chiang for winning the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. santafe.edu/news-center/news/ted-chiang-receives-2024-penmalamud-award

SFI Applied Complexity Fellow Saverio Perri models how #climate policy is intertwined with people’s perception of danger, and how mitigation efforts can lead to worse outcomes even if it’s met with initial success. Read: santafe.edu/news-center/...

For 47 centuries Nilometers managed the commons in Egypt. Can this technology be adapted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today? #Streaming Today at 12:30 MST: www.youtube.com/@SFIScience

Music. Religious ritual. Human cultural evolution. A new poll for DRH enabling experts to quantify the intricate relationships among these elements is the subject of a 4-day SFI workshop, led by External Professor Marco Buongiorno Nardelli and Edward Slingerland. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

"You don’t want to be dead… You want to maintain an off-equilibrium state.” SFI Professor David Wolpert discusses the meaning of information, and how that influences the viability of #complexsystems such as living organisms, on an episode of “Metamodern Spirituality” with Brendan Graham Dempsey

Join us live as SFI External Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad explores the future of machine learning and its evolving role in society. “Just Machine Learning,” hosted by the Lensic Performing Arts Center, streaming right now: www.youtube.com/user/santafe...

Can Machine Learning be shaped to improve our society? SFI External Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad explores this question in tonight's Community Lecture 'Just Machine Learning', at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30 MST.

Workers know the ground reality in hierarchies while managers have the big picture. What happens when these views conflict? In JASSS Journal, Stan Rhodes, Stefani Crabtree & Jacob Freeman use an agent-based model to study hierarchies in changing environments. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

🌴🌳 Even when they fail, conservation programs can have value, find SFI External Prof Monique Borgerhoff Mulder & Jeffrey Andrews in Ecological Economics: participants are more likely to sign on to programs in the future. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

🎓 Congratulations to External Professor Mahzarin Banaji, who received an honorary Doctorate of Social Science from Yale last weekend for her pioneering research on the role of unconscious processes in human social action. ow.ly/W2ZR50RT5Nf

📣 Get your tickets! Just Machine Learning, by Tina Eliassi-Rad 🗓️ June 4 ⏰ 7:30pm MT In the age of algorithmically infused societies where human and algorithmic behavior are intertwined, can we shape the use of such tools to improve our society? shorturl.at/gih8x (livestream available)

🔥 A new paper expands the theory of thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics & computer science SFI researchers introduce mathematical equations that reveal the energy costs of computational processes that depend on randomness. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

🌌 New research by David Wolpert & David Kinney explores randomness in science and math. From predicting tritium atom decay to solving 2+2, they propose a unified probabilistic framework, likening it to spinning a roulette wheel. Read more: www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

🌟 Happening May 7th! 🌟 Join us for a discussion on "Animals in Translation" as we dive into the world of interspecies communication. 🐾 🗓️ Reserve your free tickets for a captivating conversation featuring Diana Reiss, Interspecies Internet Trustee & David Krakauer. www.santafe.edu/events/anima...

In “Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World,” SFI’s @doynefarmer.bsky.social challenges traditional economic theory, offering an alternative: #ComplexityEconomics. 💡 He argues for a more nuanced understanding of human behavior. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

New Book: The time for complexity economics has comewww.santafe.edu In his new book Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World, External Professor Doyne Farmer explains in accessible language how complexity economics works ...

Remembering Daniel C. Dennett, a beloved figure at SFI known for his work on consciousness and evolutionary biology. He passed away on April 19 at the age of 82. His contributions to philosophical debates were profound & his legacy will continue to inspire. www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

The Spring 2024 Parallax is out now! This edition of our newsletter includes updates from SFI Press, a schedule of this year’s community lectures, recent & upcoming books, and the latest news in complexity science coming out of the Institute! sfi-edu.s3.amazonaws.com/sfi-edu/prod...

🎉 SFI External Professor Karen Willcox has been awarded the 2024 Theodore von Kármán Prize. She is being recognized for her contributions to computational science and engineering, from work in model reduction methods to digital twins. ow.ly/IYuJ50RmrOt

In a new paper published in PNAS, SFI’s Chris Kempes, Geoffrey West, and Brian Enquist outline three distinct scientific cultures — variance, exactitude, and coarse-grained — that have been operating independently in the biosciences. Read more here santafe.edu/news-center/...

SFI's Tim Kohler will deliver the Linda S. Cordell Lecture through The School for Advanced Research at the New Mexico History Museum on April 28. Titled “10,000 Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Difference,” he’ll share new data and insights from his work. ow.ly/eMeY50RluCL

David Wolpert’s latest work delves into the #SimulationHypothesis, exploring how computer science theory helps us investigate the idea of reality being a computer #simulation. 🤯 Read more here: philarchive.org/rec/WOLIOC-4