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SANTA FE INSTITUTE
The Santa Fe Institute is a private, non-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Since its inception, the Santa Fe Institute has become the acknowledged leader in multidisciplinary scientific research and the founding institution of complexity science. Complex systems research attempts to uncover and understand the deep commonalities that underlie artificial, human, and natural systems. This research relies on theories and tools from across the sciences.
Led by President and Distinguished Professor Dr. Geoffrey West, the Santa Fe Institute attracts renowned scientists and researchers from around the world to collaborate in attempts to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world. The Institute pioneered a new kind of scientific research community taking insight from various disciplines as well as integrating scientific insights with key challenges that businesses and government entities face. The SFI Business Network provides the interface for these discussions and comprises 55 of the world's most vibrant companies and government agencies. Three advisory bodies - the Board of Trustees, the Science Board and the Science Steering Committee (SSC) - provide advice, oversight, and support.
While topics often overlap, the main areas the Santa Fe Institute engages in research are:
Physics of Complex Systems
Emergence, Innovation and Robustness in Evolutionary Systems
Information Processing & Computation in Complex Systems
Dynamics & Quantitative Studies of Human Behavior
Emergence, Organization & Dynamics of Living Systems
The Institute's goal is to understand and explain phenomena in the natural, physical and social world which is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges. In the process of answering many important questions in the first 25 years, SFI developed new models, new tools and new methods of inquiry that continue to transform science. Some well-known examples are chaos theory, swarm theory and network theory.
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