SFI Applied Complexity Fellow Sam Zhang wants to understand the causal mechanisms that drive outcomes — particularly the ...

In his new monograph, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in “Either/Or” I, SFI Research Fellow ...

Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for ...

For centuries, naturalists have answered questions about the living world by logging lots of data: miles of flaming-red leaves, mammal brains over millions of years, gigabytes moving from genome to ...

It is shown that the distribution of word frequencies for randomly generated texts is very similar to Zipf's law observed in natural languages such as English. The facts that the frequency of ...

We report a noise-induced delay of bifurcation in a simple pulse-coupled neural circuit. We study the behavior of two neural oscillators, each individually governed by saddle-node dynamics, with ...

Elizabeth Klerman (Harvard Medical School), Cecilia Diniz Behn (Colorado School of Mines) Elizabeth Klerman (Harvard Medical School), Cecilia Diniz Behn (Colorado School of Mines) - Modeling circadian ...

Matrix - Fall 2022 Matrix_-_2022_-_October_November_December_b0c4d6 [0.00kB] Science for a Complex World ...

John’s presentation at the “stab at time” workshop began with a review of the history of concepts of time. Shifting perspectives, from the Greek philosophers, to Newton and Leibniz’s mechanics, to ...

In this second working group on the brain we shall build on some of the foundational discussions raised in the first meeting. These included significant debate around the merits of correlation vs.