The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe , New Mexico , USA , a non-profit organization and engaged in interdisciplinary research into the fundamental properties of complex adaptive systems , including physical, mathematical, biological, and social systems.
| Santa Fe Institute ( SFI ) | |
|---|---|
 Entrance to the Institute | |
| original name | English Santa fe institute |
| Based | 1984 |
| Employees | 50 |
| Location |  USA |
| Legal address | Santa Fe , New Mexico , USA 1399 Hyde Park Rd. |
| Site | santafe.edu |
The institute consists of a small group of permanent employees, a large number of employees permanently working in other institutes, and visiting researchers. The institute is advised by eminent scientists, including several Nobel laureates. Also conducts educational work on integrated systems among students.
Financing of the Institute includes donations, grants, government subsidies and investments of commercial structures. The budget for 2011 was just over $ 10 million. [1]
Content
History
The Santa Fe Institute was organized in 1984 by a group of scientists including George Cowan , David Pines , Stirling Colgate , Murray Gell-Man , Nicholas Constantin Metropolis , Herb Andersen, Peter Carruthers and Richard Slansky , most of whom, with the exception of David Pines and Gell -Mana were employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory . Their main goal was to create a special organization for interdisciplinary research. [2] [3]
Research
The research field of the Institute focuses on complex adaptive systems and simply on complex systems . Studies include the study of processes leading to the emergence of early life forms, evolutionary modeling, the study of metabolic and environmental laws of similarity, the fundamental properties of cities, evolutionary diversification of viral strains, interaction and conflicts of primate social groups, history of languages, interaction of species, including food chains, the dynamics of financial markets, the emergence of hierarchy and cooperation in early human populations, biological and technological innovations. [2] [3] [4]
Some achievements
- Research Institute led to attempts to create artificial life in the 1980s and 1990s. [2]
- Fundamental contribution to the theory of chaos . [2]
- A fundamental contribution in the field of genetic algorithms . [five]
- Fundamental contribution in the field of complex systems in the economy. [6]
- Fundamental contribution in the field of econophysics . [6]
- Fundamental contribution in the field of integrated networks . [7]
- Fundamental contribution in the field of systems biology . [eight]
- The project “Evolution of Human Languages”, an attempt to track the development of languages to the pramira language . [9] [10]
Famous employees
Permanent staff of the Institute. [2] [11]
- Bowles, Samuel
- Gell-Man, Murray
- en: Cristopher Moore
- en: Jerry Sabloff
- en: Geoffrey West
See also
- Systems approach
Notes
- ↑ 2011 Annual Report . Santa Fe Institute. The appeal date is April 14, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Mitchell M. Waldrop. Complexity: The Order of Chaos . - Simon & Schuster, 1993.
- ↑ 1 2 George A. Cowan. Memoirs of George A. Cowan. - University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
- Inter Dillon, Interdisciplinary Work (pdf). The appeal date is April 14, 2013.
- ↑ Melanie Mitchell. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems). - Bradford, 1998.
- ↑ 1 2 Farmer, JD "Physicists Attempt to Scale the Ivory Towers of Finance." Computing in Science & Engineering (IEEE), November-December 1999, 26-39.
- ↑ MEJ Newman. Networks: An Introduction. - Oxford University Press, 2010.
- ↑ Scaling in Biology. - Oxford University Press, 2000.
- ↑ Evolution of Human Languages: An international project on the linguistic prehistory of humanity . ehl.santafe.edu . Santa Fe Institute. The appeal date is December 31, 2012.
- ↑ Velasquez-Manoff, Moises . Linguists seek out time , USA Today (July 20, 2007). The appeal date is December 31, 2012.
- ↑ Resident Faculty . Santa Fe Institute. The appeal date is January 1, 2013.
Links
- santafe.edu - the official website of the Santa Fe Institute