The Quantessence of Reality, former SFI External Professor Sander Bais offers a three-volume set that reviews classical ...

SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the ...

SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for “his outstanding ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson ...

Identifying effective treatments and policies early in a pandemic is challenging because only limited and noisy data are available and biological processes are unknown or uncertain. Consequently, ...

Abstract: Deterministic Turing machines and their associated complexity measures, by construction, cannot capture the complexity of the output of stochastic processes - like those in the real world.

Large language models like GPT-4, the one behind ChatGPT, train on vast stores of data to complete one task: Produce a convincing sequence of words in response to a user’s written request. The tools ...

Sibly, R. M.,Witt, C. C.,Wright, N. A.,Venditti, C.,Jetz, W.,Brown, J. H. Theoretical and empirical studies of life history aim to account for resource allocation to ...

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We use game theory and the Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market, an agent-based model of an evolving stock market, to study the properties of strategic Nash equilibria in financial markets. We discover ...

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.