It has become increasingly vital for students across the sciences to gain computational and mathematical skills: the ability to translate real-world systems into quantitative models, carry out ...

Each participant is provided with their own private room and a private bathroom (en suite). Students do not share sleeping spaces. The housing arrangement is intended to balance community and rest: ...

We ask all applicants to read this page carefully before applying or emailing us with questions. Thank you. SFI’s UCR program is designed for curious, motivated students who can work both ...

Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of ...

This event is closed to the public. Justice is often treated as a problem of design – to be solved by writing better laws, improving court procedures, or fine-tuning economic rules. Insights from ...

In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics ...

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Maike Morrison builds mathematical tools to quantify and compare biological variation. Her ...

SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell has received a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science ...

Why do people make short-term decisions that may not be in their long-term interest? An October 22-25 working group takes ...

Clinical data (on patients from elephant seals to people) make clear the extraordinary and contradictory powers of the mammalian immune system: a vital line of defense, yet a source of grave danger.