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2012 at SFI: Asking big questions that matter
Jan. 3, 2012 -

SFI President Jerry Sabloff tells readers of the Santa Fe New Mexican what the Institute does, and why 2012 is a year for asking big questions at SFI.

Audio: 'Science symphony’ combines Bach and brain science
Nov. 3, 2011 -

On Sunday, October 30, in Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Institute and the Santa Fe Symphony collaborated to produce a unique concert event exploring the interface between music and science ...

Video - Copyright in the digital age: Mine, yours, or ours?
Nov. 1, 2011 -

In an October 5 community lecture, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling explored how free access to digital media is blurring the lines between intellectual property and individual expression and what that ...

Resident faculty positions: SFI seeks broad, creative, risk-taking, transdisciplinary thinkers
Sept. 27, 2011 -

The Santa Fe Institute is seeking nominations and applications for resident faculty positions.

Video: Security & Cryptography in a Quantum World
April 22, 2011 -

Cryptography has come a long way since invisible ink and decoder rings. In an April 13 SFI community lecture, Cris Moore describes how we might protect information in a future ...

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Current and Upcoming Events - Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

12:15 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Seminar

Charles Perreault (SFI Omidyar Fellow) and Sarah Mathew (Center for the Study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Sam Bowles

Feb. 23, 2012

Medium Conference Room
Feb. 23, 2012 - Feb. 25, 2012
Working Group
Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Rob Boyd
3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Kevin N. Laland (University of St. Andrews)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doug Erwin

Feb. 27, 2012

12:15 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Seminar

Andrew Thomas (Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doug Erwin

Feb. 29, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and The Guardian.

Supported by the Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Foundation

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

March 1, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Timothy Newman (University of Dundee)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: James O'Dwyer

March 15, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

March 29, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Raissa D'Souza (Department of Computer Science; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis; and External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doyne Farmer

April 9, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

Rebecca Goldstein, Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University. An author of both fiction and nonfiction, her books include The Mind-Body Problem, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.

Sponsored by Penelope Penland

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

April 19, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

May 1, 2012

12:15 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Seminar

Jeffrey D. Fisher, Ph.D. (Director, Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, The University of Connecticut)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doug Erwin

May 3, 2012

May 3, 2012 - May 5, 2012
Symposium

Future Directions in SFI Science:  Potential Ideas

May 3-5, 2012, Santa Fe, NM

In 2012, the annual SFI Science Board meeting will focus on building a vision of possible directions that SFI research might take in coming years. Talks and discussions will consider both areas of study that SFI scientists are not currently engaged in, as well as new cutting-edge  directions in research areas that are already part of the SFI scientific portfolio.

May 7, 2012

Noyce Conference Room
May 7, 2012 - May 8, 2012
Workshop

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doug Erwin, SFI and Nancy Deutsch, SFI

May 9, 2012

12:15 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Seminar

Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University; SFI Cowan Professor)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doug Erwin

May 10, 2012

12:15 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Seminar

Devin White (Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and Integrity
Applications Incorporated)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Scott Ortman
3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Alan Hastings (Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

May 12, 2012

Medium Conference Room
May 12, 2012 - May 13, 2012
Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Linda Cordell, SFI & SAR and Ellen Bradbury-Reid, Recursos de Santa Fe

May 16, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

James Gleick, author, Chaos; Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman; Isaac Newton; Faster; What Just Happened, and The Information.

Sponsored by Joy and Phil LeCuyer

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

May 17, 2012

Noyce Conference Room
May 17, 2012 - May 19, 2012
Workshop

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Christopher Moore, SFI
3:30 p.m.
Pod A Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

June 14, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Johan van Benthem (Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, University of Amsterdam)

SFI Host: Rogier Braakman

June 21, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

June 27, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

Dan Hruschka, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Arizona State University; author Friendship:  Development, Ecology and Evolution of a Relationship, SFI Omidyar Fellow Alumnus.

Sponsored in memory of Kate Klein, from the Kate Klein Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

July 19, 2012

4 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

July 25, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

Duncan Watts, Principal Research Scientist, Human Social Dynamics Group, Yahoo! Research; author, Everything Is Obvious Once You Know The Answer, and SFI Post-doctoral fellow alumnus.

Sponsored by the Peters Family Foundation

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Aug. 15, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

Nathan Collins, Assistant Professor, political science, University of California at Irvine; SFI Omidyar Fellow alumnus.

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Aug. 16, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Aug. 25, 2012

Medium Conference Room
Aug. 25, 2012 - Aug. 26, 2012
Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: David Freidel, SFI & Washington University

Sept. 12, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Community Lecture

Scott Ortman, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute; Lightfoot Fellow, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Sept. 20, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Sept. 26, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Martin Davis (Professor Emeritus, Courant-NYU; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

Oct. 2, 2012

7:30 p.m.
James A. Little Theater
Oct. 2, 2012 - Oct. 4, 2012
Community Lecture

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford; Professor, Zoology, Oxford University and Imperial College; former president of Britain's Royal Society, and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government

Sponsored by Diana MacArthur, Trustee, Santa Fe Institute

SFI Host: Ginger Richardson

Oct. 18, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Nov. 13, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Rob Wilson (Project Director, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada; Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Simon DeDeo

Nov. 15, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Dec. 20, 2012

3:30 p.m.
Medium Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

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