Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is a private not-for-profit research and teaching institute based in Santa Fe , New Mexico .
It was founded in 1984 in order to develop a theory of complex adaptive systems in physics, biology, technology and social sciences in interdisciplinary basic research . The founding members were George Cowan , David Pines , Stirling Colgate , the Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann , Nicholas Metropolis , Herbert L. Anderson , Peter Carruthers and Richard Slansky , all scientists of the Los Alamos National Laboratory except for Pines and Gell-Mann .
The institute regards its original goal as having been achieved, as the theory of complex systems has now become an established subject of research to which a number of scientific institutes worldwide are dedicated. The institute names cognitive neuroscience , computer simulation in physics and life sciences, economic and social interactions, evolutionary dynamics, network dynamics and robustness as current work topics .
Some scientists working with the Santa Fe Institute
- W. Brian Arthur
- By Bak
- Samuel Bowles
- David Campbell
- John L. Casti
- James Crutchfield
- J. Doyne Farmer
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Herbert Gintis
- Brian Goodwin
- John H. Holland
- Stuart Kauffman
- Christopher Langton
- Robert May
- Peter Schuster
- Peter F. Stadler
- Stefan Thurner
See also
- Complex system
- Systems thinking
- Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin.
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg.
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen.
literature
- Roger Lewin, The Complexity Theory , Hoffmann & Campe, 1993.