City: Santa Fe, NM

Category: Education

Telephone: (505) 984-8800

Address: 1399 Hyde Park Rd.

Description: The Santa Fe Institute is a private, nonprofit, multidisciplinary research and education center, founded in Santa Fe in 1984. The mission of the Santa Fe Institute is to conduct and foster scientific research that has four dominant traits: transdisciplinary, excellent, fresh, and catalytic.SFI has devoted itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community pursuing emerging science. SFI supports scientific research by providing an environment for multidisciplinary collaborations among visiting and resident scientists from the physical, biological, computational, and social science fields. Over the course of a year, SFI houses more than 100 scientists with about 35 in residence at any one time. Researchers-in-residence could stay for weeks, months, or years. They might be postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, or scientists predominantly from universities in the United States and Europe.The Institute’s research agenda is overseen by a Science Advisory Board that includes Nobel Laureates, MacArthur Foundation Fellows, members of the National Academy of Sciences, and several dozen distinguished scientists from leading universities. They come from a wide variety of fields to guide the general direction, integration, and quality of the Institute’s work.Students are important at SFI. Although it does not grant degrees, the Santa Fe Institute has a strong commitment to training the next generation of scientists. SFI programs include a highly competitive Postdoctoral Fellows program, long- and short-term interdisciplinary research opportunities for graduate students and undergraduates, the Complex Systems Summer School, and the Graduate Workshop for Computational Economics. In 2000, the institute began its advanced physics program, supported by the physics division of the National Science Foundation. For high-school students in the Santa Fe area, SFI offers a program in simulations of complex systems. SFI also presents a free monthly public lecture series at the James A. Little Theater on the New Mexico School for the Deaf campus.