Organisms that respond quickly to changing environments have an advantage over those that don’t. However, reacting too ...
A recent study by SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Katrin Schmelz and coauthors explores various scenarios when it may be ...
Stephan Mertens passed away on October 9, 2024, at the age of 62 after a seven-year battle with multiple myeloma. At the time ...
Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Abstract: In brains, symmetry, asymmetry, and complexity are brought together; and affect both structure and function. Symmetric structures, thanks ...
Krakauer, D. C.,Collins, J. P.,Erwin, D. H.,Flack, J. C.,Fontana, W.,Laubichler, M. D.,Prohaska, S. J.,West, G. B.,Stadler, P. F. Scientific theories seek to provide ...
Crises like COVID-19 or the Japanese earthquake in 2011 exposed the fragility of corporate supply networks. The production of goods and services is a highly interdependent process and can be severely ...
When it comes to assessing intelligence, people have all kinds of tests — the SAT, IQ tests, and so on. There’s controversy over how fairly these tests really measure human intelligence, but at the ...
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast at SFI 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Introduction by David Krakauer, “Emergently Engineered Timescales” 10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. James Holehouse, "Unnecessary Bureaucracy?