Science illuminating our complex world

2010 ANNUAL REPORT >>insight A unique research community. A new kind of science.

To unravel the complex systems most critical to our future – economies, ecosystems, world conflict, disease, human progress, and global climate, for example – a new kind of science is required, one that merges the riches of many disciplines, from physics and biology to the social sciences and the humanities.

For 27 years the , the world locus of complex systems science, has devoted itself to creating a unique research community. In seeking the theoretical foundations and patterns underly- SFI Leadership ing our world’s toughest problems, SFI’s scientists Jerry Sabloff, maintain the highest degree of scientific rigor, col- President laborate across disciplines, create and explore new

Nancy Deutsch, scientific frontiers, spread the ideas and methods of Vice President for Development complexity science to other institutions, prepare the

Doug Erwin, next generation of complexity scholars, and encour- Chair of the Faculty, 2011-2013 age the practical application of SFI’s results.

David Krakauer, Chair of the Faculty, 2009-2011 Founded in 1984, SFI is a private, independent, nonprofit research institution located in Santa Fe, Ginger Richardson, Editor Writing Photography Laura Ware Vice President for Education New Mexico. Its scientific and educational missions John German Krista Zala InSight Foto Inc. Mark Earthy are supported by philanthropic individuals and [email protected] Chris Wood, Rachel Miller Peter Ollivetti Printing Vice President for Administration foundations, forward-thinking partner companies, Design Rachel Feldman Nicolas Righetti Starline Printing Director, Business Network and government science agencies. Michael Vittitow Jessica Flack Linda A. Cicero Welcome to the Santa Fe Institute From SFI President Jerry Sabloff

Is SFI’s research relevant? Those who know the patterns of innovation are not only interesting problems in their Santa Fe Institute know we concern ourselves own right, but unraveling them also requires a transdisciplinary with the underlying and often unseen struc- approach in which the tools of physics and the natural sciences, the tures, patterns, and connections in complex social sciences, and the humanities all contribute. Studying these systems that, if we understand them well issues in this way is rewarding, certainly, and potentially impactful. enough, might one day unlock the sorts of More important, it builds our theoretical understanding of com- knowledge disciplinary science hasn’t yet re- plex systems generally. vealed. This focus on the fundamental nature of things demands that we avoid the tempta- So for me, the important question about SFI isn’t whether the tions of immediate, tangible outcomes. Institute’s research is relevant. The better question is whether we are addressing key scientific questions in the right way. I believe the Still, since I arrived at SFI in 2009, I have SFI model – a small, high-quality resident faculty core, an active witnessed a growing appreciation for the and creative postdoctoral presence, a highly accomplished group Institute’s scientific research, not only among of external faculty, plenty of transdisciplinary collaboration, com- other scientists, but among policy makers and plexity as a locus for thought, and an environment unfettered by Jerry Sabloff the public as well. For example: the constraints of a university or government agency – is the right approach, for whatever the question. This way of thinking, and of “The best ideas often come Our markets and risk work led by J. Doyne Farmer, John doing science, and of addressing complex systems has explanatory Geanakoplos, and colleagues is, in the wake of the global power across the realm of human experience. Inevitably, relevance from bringing groups of thinkers financial crisis, beginning to rattle the foundations of main- emerges from this process. together from disciplines that stream economics.  normally have nothing to do with Research led by Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West is providing On behalf of SFI’s great faculty, fellows, and staff, I thank you for fresh insights about urbanization, the rapid growth of cities, and your interest in SFI. With your partnership and support we can each other. The Santa Fe Institute the life cycles of companies. begin to address some of our world’s most critical and complex is perhaps the best known The work led by Jessica Flack and David Krakauer on the nature problems. of conflict is suggesting ways to manage strife on many scales in example of this.” a world in which environmental stresses and resource shortages Sincerely, – Duncan Green, soon may test our institutions, and our humanity. author of From Poverty to Power SFI’s other explorations of cognition, evolution, the chemical origins of life, human behavior, ecological complexity, and

www.santafe.edu 1 S FI PROFE SSORS SFI>> Professors are in residence at SFI and are the core of the Institute’s Connecting conflict to hierarchy research and culture.rigor through collective social computation Tanmoy Bhattacharya J. Doyne Farmer John H. Miller Geoffrey West An unanswered question in evolutionary theory is why life organizes Sam Bowles Jessica Flack Cris Moore Jon Wilkins itself hierarchically. From cells, to organisms, to societies, evolu- George Cowan Murray Gell-Mann Jerry Sabloff Elisabeth Jean Wood tion generates structures nested in space and time. Organisms are Jennifer Dunne David Krakauer Paula Sabloff Chris Wood made of molecules within cells within organ systems within bodies. Doug Erwin Fabrizio Lillo D. Eric Smith Societies are individuals interacting in nested social networks, out of which persistent social structures emerge.

Although the possible explanations are many, few describe how new levels of organization arise in biological and social systems. SFI Pro- fessor Jessica Flack is proposing that evolution builds systems with multiple temporal and spatial scales to balance tradeoffs between evolvability (a system’s ability to change in response to changing environments) and robustness (a system’s ability to survive a wide range of threats).

Flack’s hypothesis is that conflict is key to the emergence of hier- archy. New levels of organization changes, preparing it to adapt. Thus, both fast and slow variables SFI Focus Areas arise as asymmetries resulting have important roles and benefits, she believes. SFI researchers are giving four focus from competition among lower- areas particular attention and effort. The level components become ampli- Flack argues that this process can give rise to structures as diverse as areas and their faculty organizers are: fied. The emerging higher-level power distributions in human and animal societies, reefs, and brain  structure is essentially a coarse- regions associated with cognitive functions. Using conflict data un- Risk, Markets, and Innovation (J. Doyne Farmer) grained representation – an aver- derlying power structures in monkey societies, and data from brain Jessica Flack age is a simple example – of the studies showing how characteristic frequencies arise from the inter- T he Multiple Scales of Conflict lower-level conflict dynamics. As they interact, the components use actions of neurons, Flack and SFI Professor David Krakauer are (Jessica Flack) the slowly changing coarse-grained to make decisions, as seeking general computational principles that describe how slowly Cities, Scaling, and Sustainability these are more predictive of the future state of the system than the changing, coarse-grained variables arise from competitive dynamics (Luis Bettencourt & Geoffrey West) constantly in-flux events at the lower level. The in-flux events, on and how components – whether they are people, monkeys, or cells Emergence in Decision Making and the other hand, allow the system to closely track environmental – estimate the statistics of those variables. Cognitive Systems (David Krakauer) What viruses and languages have in common

As a physicist, SFI Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya hunts for the elusive properties of particles in massive data sets. In a project led by SFI External Professor Bette Korber, he has studied HIV genetic sequences collected over the last two decades and traced the virus to its human origin in the early 1900s – and is using that knowledge to design a better vaccine.

On the surface these challenges seem impossibly dissimilar. For Tanmoy Bhattacharya Bhattacharya, they are two manifestations of the same problem: understanding change in dynamical, or changing, systems. Watching democratic attitudes form Now he has turned his attention to the evolution of human languages. Linguists have devised systematic methods to understand language SFI Professor Paula Sabloff explores the shifting concept of democ- change, but those methods typically do not provide quantitative racy across Mongolian society as its people – traditionally pastoral measures of confidence. In addition, unsophisticated use of statistical nomads with an arm’s-length philosophy about governance – have methods has sometimes in the past yielded incorrect results. adjusted, since 1990, to their new democracy. Bhattacharya believes languages go through combinations of regular Her paper “Capitalist Democracy among Mongolian Herders: Dis- and random change patterns that are similar to those physical systems course or Ideology?” (Human Organization, Spring 2010) shows how and viruses go through. He considers language evolution a pursuit Mongolians use the discourse of democracy to express a more cultur- in need of a statistical overhaul. Using a vast database of Turkic ally nuanced political view. languages, he and a team of SFI researchers have discovered law-like principles of change in language sounds through time and are devel- In her 2011 book Mapping Mongolia, Sabloff challenges the conven- oping a theory for shifts in meaning. tion of area-based studies of political regions. She is working on a textbook about Mongolian democracy and, with former SFI Omidyar Bhattacharya is both an SFI Professor and a scientist in the Theoreti- Fellow Tanya Elliott, on a new application of connectionist theory cal Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. to human groups.

“[SFI will find a] common ground between the relatively simple world of natural science and the daily, messy world of human affairs.” – George Cowan, founding SFI president

Paula Sabloff www.santafe.edu 3 >>relevance r e s earch

In a paper appearing in The Biological number of punishers increases. Groups memory for what happened in previous Bulletin, a research team that includes with more punishers can sustain more conflicts. Their work appeared in PLOS SFI Science Board Chair Emeritus cooperation and are more likely to sur- Computational Biology. Harold Morowitz and Professor vive crises and prevail in conflicts. Their D. Eric Smith proposes a type of work was published in Science. In an SFI working paper, SFI researchers catalyst that could have jumpstarted Bela Nagy, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika metabolism and life itself, deep in SFI Omidyar Fellow Simon DeDeo Trancik, and John Paul Gonzales put hydrothermal ocean vents. According and Professors Jessica Flack and David Moore’s Law to the test by analyzing his- to their model, molecular structures Krakauer developed new machine learn- torical datasets relating to performance involving transition metals and ligands ing methods to study conflict. They improvements in information technol- could have catalyzed the synthesis of applied the new method, which they call ogy. They discovered that the data do basic biochemicals that acted as build- Inductive , to a time series not support the notion of exponential 2010 ing blocks for increasingly complex of fights gathered from detailed obser- progress in information technology, but molecules. vations of a population of macaques. they do support a hypothesis of superex- “The patterns they’ve discovered Their results demonstrate that con- ponential growth with decreasing dou- A future quantum computer running flict arises from complex interactions bling times. This raises questions about [at SFI] have illuminated Peter Shor’s 1994 factoring algorithm among groups of three or more, and whether past improvement trends for could break most public-key cryptosys- the decision to fight is dependent on information technology are sustainable. some of the most pressing tems, including those used for secure on- issues of our time and, line transactions today. SFI Professor Cris Moore and collaborators showed along the way, served as that the 1978 McEliece cryptosystem is immune to attack by all Shor-like algo- the basis for what’s now called rithms, providing strong evidence that the the science of complexity.” McEliece system is implementable in today’s computers but destined to remain – Wired magazine secure even if quantum computers are built and switched on.

SFI Professor Sam Bowles and External Professors Herb Gintis and Robert Boyd presented in 2010 a model of coordinated punishment in human societies that showed that the total cost of punishing a slacker declines as the S FI I N th e n ewS

Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West’s TheSanta Fe New Mexican featured SFI’s and External Professor Luis Bettencourt’s Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking search for the hidden laws underlying the Scientifically), an after-school and summer dynamics and growth of cities received program that engages middle-school-aged bo ok s by sfi author s widespread media attention in 2010. Cov- scientists in questions about their world. erage appeared in Nature, The New York The article was written by a high school SFI External Professor and Science Board Colony Behavior, by SFI Science Board Times magazine, Washington Post, New Sci- student who participated in Project GUTS member Melanie Mitchell’s book Com- member Deborah Gordon, and Diver- entist, Science News, in hundreds of blogs, in 2007. plexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University sity and Complexity, by External Professor and on numerous radio and TV programs. Press, 2009) received the Phi Beta Kappa Scott Page. In the Montreal Gazette, SFI Professor Sam Society’s 2010 Book Award in Science. SFI Professor J. Doyne Farmer’s project, Bowles delved into the evolution of human SFI External Professor Mark Newman’s with External Professors John Geanakoplos cooperation, suggesting that at some point SFI and Princeton University Press pub- book Networks: An Introduction, describes and Rob Axtell, to develop agent-based in human history, factions of cooperative lished the first two volumes in their col- recent widespread interest in mathematical models of the U.S. economy was covered humans – and the social institutions they laborative series “Primers in Complex networks for understanding a variety of in The Wall Street Journal, The New York created – might have put warrior factions at Systems,” intended for non-specialists at systems in computing, biology, sociology, Times, The Economist, Newsweek, and the an evolutionary disadvantage. the advanced undergraduate level or above: and other areas. Harvard Business Review, among others. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and

2010 science meetings Archaeoastronomy Mechanisms of Neural Development (Jerry Murdock & George Gumerman), May (Charles Stevens), August Intelligent Data Analysis - Truly Understanding Complex Decentralized Control in Systems of Strategic Actors Coevolution of Behaviors & Institutions (organized by Systems (Paul Cohen & David Krakauer), May (David Wolpert, D. Eric Smith, & Robert Ecke), August Sam Bowles), January Reasoning, Perceptions, & Beliefs in Strategic Settings: Viral Dynamics (Alan Perelson & Ruy Ribeiro), August Persistent Inequality (Sam Bowles & Monique Borgerhoff Theory, Behavior, & Cognition (Willemien Kets), June Cosmology & Society in the Ancient Amerindian World Mulder), January The Role of Entropy in Language & Communication (Linda Cordell, George Gumerman & Murray Gell-Mann), Rethinking Aid to Support Economic Growth (Mark Johnson & Katherine Demuth), June September (Stuart Kauffman), February Emergent Properties & Resilience of Interacting Perception & Action (Nihat Ay), September Immune Response Consortium (Alan Perelson), March Networks (Raissa D’Souza), June Peopling of the Americas The Ecophylogeny of Complex Species Interactions Metabolism as a Central Theme in the Emergence of (Murray Gell-Mann, Henry Wright, & Ilia Peiros), (Jessica Green & Jennifer Dunne), April Biological Order (Brian Enquist), July September

www.santafe.edu 5 >> EXte r nAL Facu lty reputation

Outwitting HIV piled a database of the genetic makeup of 300,000 different that Phase I human trials for a mosaic vaccine are slated sequences of HIV. They are using a genetic algorithm to, as to begin in 2012. HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, beats the human immune she explains, “mimic the evolutionary strategies the virus Together with SFI Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya, system by continually mutating itself. Thus, it is among uses to evade the immune response.” Bette also participated in a cross-disciplinary effort to the most diverse and elusive human viruses, and it has A better understanding of the virus’ adaptational pat- combine evolutionary reconstruction with computa- for decades confounded scientists trying to create a viable terns has enabled her to create a “mosaic” vaccine com- tional statistics to identify HIV mutations that possess vaccine. prising artificial proteins that she says look and behave the ability to be transmitted or to escape an immune SFI External Professor Bette Korber, also a Laboratory like HIV proteins. “In vivo tests showed the immune response. That will allow researchers to further improve Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is putting up response was much better with the mosaic proteins than the vaccines, she says. a fight. She and her team of a dozen researchers have com- with natural ones,” she says – so much better, in fact,

“By recruiting exceptionally

bright, open-minded people and placing them in a boundary-free environment which supports collaboration and innovation, SFI has made important contributions to science.”

– Harvard Interdisciplinary Study Group

Bette Korber

6 www.santafe.edu Examining indoor ecosystems External Faculty honors

SFI External Professor Jessica Green is developing new President Obama announced scientific approaches to understanding the complex ways in September 2010 his selec- microorganisms inside buildings interact with their envi- tion of SFI External Professor ronments, each other, and the humans who occupy those Carlos Castillo-Chavez, environments. a professor at Arizona State She was recently named a senior fellow by TED, and as University, to the President’s part of her two-year fellowship she is raising awareness Committee on the National Medal of Science. about this intersection of biology and architecture and how buildings may be designed to promote human health and SFI External Professor Nina Fedoroff, a Profes- environmental sustainability. sor at Penn State University and former science and technology adviser to two U.S. Secretaries of State Green also is pursuing genomic- and theory-driven ap- Andreas Wagner proaches to green design and sustainable urban develop- and the U.S. Agency for International Development, ment. “We can tackle urgent climate change and global Evo-innovation ready for theory was named president of the American Association health issues, in tandem, by advancing sustainable design for the Advancement of Science for 2011. practices,” she says. Though Charles Darwin explained how natural selection preserves useful variations in biological phenotype, he was SFI External Professor Simon Levin, Moffett Pro- She is an associate professor in the Center for Ecology and unable to describe the origins of these variations. fessor of Biology at Princeton University, received Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oregon, Eugene, the Eminent Ecologist Award for 2010 from the and director of the University’s Biology and the Built Envi- “There is something special about the architecture of life Ecological Society of America, ESA’s top award. ronment Center. that makes it amenable to improvement through random change,” says SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner, SFI External Professor David Sherrington (Ox- head of the University of Zurich’s Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies. “It is more than just ford) was awarded the 2010 Blaise Pascal Medal natural selection and random change.” in Physics by the European Academy of Sciences.

In his upcoming book The Origins of Evolutionary Innova- A paper in Ecology Letters co-authored by SFI tion, Wagner suggests that the time is right for developing Omidyar Fellow James O’Dwyer and External a unified theory of evolutionary innovation. While Darwin Professor Jessica Green was selected as the based his theory purely on observation of phenotype, our 2010 Outstanding Theory Paper by the Ecological deeper knowledge today of organisms’ genotypes and the Society of America’s Theoretical Ecology Section. structure, function, and evolution of biological molecules, along with modern computational analysis tools, makes The research provides a new mathematical model possible the organization, unification, and explanation of of species birth, death, and dispersal that draws Jessica Green disparate evolutionary phenomena and innovation. from quantum field theory in physics. S FI Exte r nal Profe ssors SFI External Professors are affiliated with more than 70 research institutions in 20 countries.

David Ackley * James P. Crutchfield Jessica Green Bette Korber Mercedes Pascual Ricard Solé University of New Mexico University of California, Davis University of Oregon Los Alamos National University of Michigan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Laboratory Ann Arbor W. Brian Arthur Lisa Curran George Gumerman Peter Stadler University of Leipzig Palo Alto Research Center Stanford University School for Advanced Supriya Krishnamurthy John Pepper Research Swedish Institute of Computer University of Arizona Charles Stevens Robert Axtell * Raissa D’Souza Science The Salk Institute George Mason University University of California, Davis Peter Hammerstein Alan Perelson Humboldt University J. Stephen Lansing Los Alamos National Steven Strogatz * Nihat Ay Vincent Danos University of Arizona Laboratory Cornell University Max Planck Institute for Université Paris-Diderot Bailin Hao Alan Swedlund in the Sciences Fudan University Simon Levin Juan Perez-Mercader Rob de Boer Princeton University Centro de Astrobiologia University of Massachusetts, Sander (F.A.) Bais John Harte Amherst Utrecht University Seth Lloyd University of Amsterdam University of California, Walter (Woody) Powell Stefan Thurner Andrew Dobson Massachusetts Institute Stanford University Medical University of Vienna Aviv Bergman Berkeley of Technology Princeton University Steen Rasmussen Albert Einstein College of James Hartle Joseph Traub Jonathan Machta University of Southern Columbia University Medicine Santiago F. Elena University of California, Instituto de Biología Molecular University of Massachusetts Denmark Carl Bergstrom Santa Barbara Constantino Tsallis y Cellular de Plantas Pablo Marquet Sidney Redner Brazilian Center for Physics University of Washington Dirk Helbing Pontificia Universidad Catolica Research Brian Enquist Boston University Luis Bettencourt Swiss Federal Institute de Chile National Institute of Science University of Arizona Dan Rockmore Los Alamos National of Technology and Technology Lord Robert M. May Dartmouth College Laboratory Joshua M. Epstein John H. Holland Oxford University Sander van der Leeuw Johns Hopkins School John Rundle Arizona State University Lawrence Blume University of Michigan, of Medicine Stephan Mertens University of California, Davis Cornell University Ann Arbor Otto-von-Guericke Universität Andreas Wagner Nina Fedoroff Magdeburg Van Savage University of Zurich Robert Boyd Alfred Hübler University of California, Duncan Watts * Penn State University University of Illinois, Urbana Lauren Ancel Meyers University of California, Los Angeles Yahoo! Research Los Angeles Marcus W. Feldman Ray Jackendoff University of Texas at Austin Hans Joachim (John) Colleen Webb * Stanford University Tufts University Melanie Mitchell Elizabeth Bradley Schellnhuber Colorado State University University of Colorado Portland State University Duncan Foley Matthew Jackson Potsdam Institute for Climate Ken Weiss Jim Brown New School for Social Stanford University Michel Morvan Impact Research Penn State University Research Ecole Normale Supérieure University of New Mexico Douglas R. White Sanjay Jain de Lyon Daniel Schrag Timothy G. Buchman Walter Fontana University of Delhi University of California, Irvine Mark Newman Emory University School Harvard Medical School William (Woody) Woodruff Erica Jen University of Michigan, Peter Schuster of Medicine Stephanie Forrest University of Vienna Los Alamos National Jüergen Jost Ann Arbor Laboratory University of New Mexico David Campbell Max Planck Institute for Kazuo Nishimura Rajiv Sethi Boston University Henry T. Wright Steven Frank Mathematics in the Sciences Kyoto University Barnard College, Columbia University of Michigan, University of California, Irvine University Ann Arbor, Museum of Carlos Castillo-Chavez Maya Paczuski * Stuart Kauffman Anthropology Arizona State University John Geanakoplos University of Vermont College University of Calgary Cosma Shalizi Morten Christiansen of Medicine Carnegie Mellon University Peyton Young * Scott Page Nuffield College, University Tampere University of Cornell University Herbert Gintis University of Michigan, David Sherrington of Oxford Technology Ann Arbor University of Oxford Linda Cordell Central European University Wojciech Zurek School for Advanced University of Massachusetts Tim Kohler Mark Pagel Los Alamos National Research University of Siena Washington State University Reading University Yale University Laboratory

*Rotated off 6/30/10 >> POSTDOCTORleadershipAL FE LLOWS

The Omidyar Fellowship “In many respects the Santa Fe Institute is the ideal type

The Omidyar Fellowship plays a central role in SFI’s creative, of environment which facilitates creative thinking.” open intellectual environment. This highly selective postdoctoral – Rogers Hollingsworth, science historian, sociologist, and author fellowship brings to SFI fresh ideas from many fields, prepares fellows to be leaders in transdisciplinary science, contributes to SFI’s research agenda, and spreads SFI’s methodologies to scientific institutions around the world.

Omidyar Fellows spend up to three years in residence at SFI, during which they pursue research questions of their own design. Fragile native tongues: The mathematics of a language’s demise To Omidyar Fellow Anne Kandler, the loss of a The Omidyar Fellowship is supported in part through an endow- language is the dying breath of a culture. Combin- ment established by eBay founder Pierre and Pam Omidyar, ing her backgrounds in applied mathematics and and by individual gifts – which are matched dollar for dollar by cultural evolution, she has created a computational the Omidyars when they are contributed through SFI’s Omidyar model of language shift, which she is testing on the Challenge campaign. Gaelic language of Scotland. She hopes to character- ize the principles underlying the dynamics of how 2010 Omidyar Fellows language use declines in a population, and identify the most crucial social policies governments might Rogier Braakman Nathan Eagle * James O’Dwyer adopt to save them. Caroline Buckee * Tanya Elliott * Scott Ortman Aaron Clauset * Laura Fortunato Jessika Trancik * Using a wealth of U.K. census data going back 120 Nathan Collins Anne Kandler Jeremy Van Cleve years, Kandler is examining historical trends in Gael- Simon DeDeo Willemien Kets * ic speaking and identifying speaker-ratio inflection points below which Gaelic is not likely to recover 2010 Postdoctoral Fellows without intervention. She also is refining her model, which, she admits, is now fairly crude, and waiting SFI postdoctoral fellows are in residence from one to three patiently for a 2011 census that will indicate whether years and collaborate with SFI faculty on research projects. government efforts have achieved some success, or Fabio Caccioli Marcus Hamilton Bence Toth * whether Gaelic speaking continues to diminish in Anne Kandler Bryan Daniels Bela Nagy * Hyejin Youn Scotland.

* Completed fellowship in 2010 www.santafe.edu 9 Miller scholars

Challenging the status quo

Underwritten by SFI Board Chair Emeritus Bill Miller, the Miller Scholars program finds and brings to SFI high- profile intellects to challenge orthodox thinking and cata- lyze cross-disciplinary interactions. Three internationally renowned scholars came to SFI in 2010 as the Institute’s first Miller Scholars:

Philosopher of science, consciousness, and evolution- ary theory Daniel Dennett spent five months at SFI beginning in January 2010. His research focuses on phi- losophy as it relates to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He has written about and advocated the notion of memetics as a philosophi- cally useful tool. At Tufts University, Dennett is co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin Seth Lloyd Daniel Dennett B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy. Actor-playwright-director Sam Shepard arrived at Self-described “quantum mechanic” Seth Lloyd, a the Institute in December 2010. Shepard is author of professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and an SFI numerous plays, short stories, essays, and memoirs. He “The Institute’s atmosphere is like a cross external professor, came to the Institute in July 2010. received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his His research centers on the interplay of information play Buried Child. He has appeared in more than 40 between the senior common room of a with complex systems, especially quantum systems. films, most notably as pilot Cambridge college and one of the West In his book Programming the Universe he contends Chuck Yeager in The Right Coast temples of geekdom, such as that the universe itself is one big quantum computer Stuff, which earned him an producing what we see around us, and ourselves. He is Academy Award nomination Google or Pixar.” principal investigator at the MIT Research Laboratory in 1983. Shepard has directed – Science writer John Whitfield of Electronics and directs MIT’s Center for Extreme two films and several of his in his book Life, Energy, and the Quantum . own plays. Sam Shepard Unity of Nature “Some conferences provide food for thought. That was a feast.”  — Participant in 2010 Business Network meeting on business network uncertainty, risk, and vulnerability 2010 SFI Business Network Members Selecting innovations likeliest to succeed cessful. In seeking new approaches, he blends his systems engineering Air Force Research Laboratory and investment financial engineering experience. Argonne National Laboratory Baillie Gifford “The math and science behind a portfolio of stocks is relatively well BGI The decision-making process can be complicated when it comes to understood,” says Scott Mathews, technical fellow with The Boeing The Boeing Company forecasting technology success, he explains. A single Boeing product Company, a Business Network member since 1999. “Discovering the Cerelink Inc. can take years to develop and hundreds of millions of dollars to fund. Chief of Naval Operations Strategic same for a portfolio of technology innovations, a complex emergent Studies Group Boeing’s engagement with SFI researchers and other Business Network system, is our goal at SFI.” Cisco Systems members helps the company formulate a scientific basis for this com- Davis Selected Advisers, LP For the past two years, Mathews has been working with Institute sci- plex decision-making. Deere & Company Deloitte Center for the Edge entists and other Business Network members to find ways to better In a pre-competitive collaboration, Boeing and other Business Net- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu predict which candidate technologies and products will be most suc- eBay, Inc. work members are sharing algorithms and methods, leveraging their Fidelity Investments research efforts with SFI, and creating new evaluation techniques. He Google Humana believes his SFI involvement will not only be good for Boeing, “it will Icosystem Corporation contribute to our national advancement of technology overall,” he says. Insight Venture Partners Intel Corporation Joint Warfare Analysis Center Kinderhook Partners SFI welcomes firstexploratory member Lane Five Capital Management Legg Mason Capital Management Lockheed Martin Corporation In 2010 SFI’s Business Network welcomed its first exploratory mem- Los Alamos National Bank ber, Cerelink Inc. Cerelink President Rod Sanchez says membership LPL Financial provides him with a “diverse set of insights and interaction with some Microsoft Corporation The MITRE Corporation of the world’s most creative companies.” National Institute of Aerospace / NASA National Semiconductor Cerelink, a Corrales, New Mexico-based cloud computing provider Nativis to the motion picture industry, recently supplied on-demand server Nokia Office of Naval Research capacity located in New Mexico to DreamWorks Animation for its OppenheimerFunds, Inc. rendering of two major animated pictures: Shrek Forever After and RGM Advisors, LLC How to Train Your Dragon. Sleep, Zakaria & Company Ltd. Steelcase, Inc. Systems Engineering for Autonomous The exploratory membership category is designed for smaller com- Systems / BAE Systems panies, start-ups, and partnerships whose resources might not allow Telecom Italia full Business Network membership. It gives such companies up to two Thrivent Investments Thomson Reuters Scott Mathews years to participate in Business Network activities and to gauge the Towers Watson costs and benefits of full membership. Veolia Environnement

www.santafe.edu 11 education programs >> and-a-half-day course, oftenfuture collaboratively with fellow SFI learn to use these tools to understand complexity in bio- A short course long on demand scientists. logical, economic, social, and technological systems. “Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective” – unofficially known around In two offerings of “Exploring Complexity” since its de- “The interactions of such an eclectic group result in syner- SFI as “the short course” – introduces professionals from but in 2010, more than 50 decision-makers in business, gies of thought,” says Dave Snell, technology evangelist for many backgrounds to the complex interactions that under- government, healthcare, education, media, and nonprofit RGA Reinsurance Company, who attended the May 2010 lie social, biological, and computer behavior. organizations from many disciplines have attended. short course in Portland, Oregon. “When professionals from vastly different disciplines come together and reach an SFI External Professor Melanie Mitchell created the During the course, participants explore the broad realm of ‘aha’ moment, it is a magical experience.” course based on her popular book Complexity: A Guided complex systems science, including dynamics and chaos, Tour (Oxford University Press, 2009). She leads the two- networks, evolution, and agent-based modeling. They also SFI offers the course at least twice a year in various locations.

A new view of life’s origins The National Science Foundation in 2010 funded – through its Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program – a multi-institution effort to develop a new permanent exhibition for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque. “Emer- gence: A New View of Life’s Origins,” takes a fresh look at the chemical origins of life. It replaces the museum’s current origins exhibit, now 25 years old. SFI Science Board Chair Emeritus Harold Morowitz and Profes-

Melanie Mitchell sor D. Eric Smith lead the project.

12 www.santafe.edu Where students become complexity scholars

Since 1988, SFI’s signature education program, the Complex Systems Summer School, has trained more than a thousand graduate stu- dents and postdocs in the fundamental concepts of complex systems science.

In turn, those new complexity scholars have taken SFI’s ideas and methods to their home institutions. Many have since joined the grow- ing worldwide community of senior academics doing complex systems research, according to “[SFI] is the formal birthplace of the interdisciplinary study of complex systems, now known as complexity science.” Ginger Richardson, SFI’s Vice President for Education. – Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy

In 2010, 65 scholars from some 50 institutions and 20 countries came to Santa Fe to partici- Engaging tomorrow’s women scientists The program is an outgrowth of the four-year-old, SFI-led pate in the CSSS, organized by SFI External Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically), an Professor Dan Rockmore. Students collabora- Expanding on a successful SFI-led after-school science after-school program designed to encourage young people tively completed 13 projects covering research program for middle school students, the National Science to ask questions about issues that affect their communi- topics from gossip and blogging patterns to Foundation in 2010 sponsored a new three-year program ties, investigate them through scientific inquiry, and devise diffusion processes in complex networks. designed to attract New Mexico girls to careers in science, potential solutions by modeling and analyzing them as technology, engineering, math, and information and com- complex systems. The 2011 school is changing in significant ways. munications technology – fields in which women are his- Each course module, organized by a resident torically under-represented. Because girls tend to succeed when they see others like them SFI scientist, is associated with a computation succeeding, GUTS y Girls enlists women scientists as men- and data lab. Acknowledging the value of and “Learning technical and computing skills will give young tors and keeps girls and their mentors connected through a demand for the school, SFI is for the first time people the background needed to succeed in these fields,” private social networking site. charging tuition. says Irene Lee, principal investigator for the new program, GUTS y Girls, which provides extramural curricula for If successful, the program could become a model for a “We want to create a school that provides some 300 middle school girls. national effort. students with a synoptic perspective on core complex systems concepts with an emphasis on Once-a-month Saturday workshops in Santa Fe offer girls GUTS y Girls is a collaboration among SFI, MIT, the Uni- synthesis, and leave them with a portfolio of the opportunity to meet women scientists and profession- versity of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech, New Mexico tools for analyzing real-world problems,” says SFI als, participate in hands-on projects, and learn about career State University, the Santa Fe Complex, the Girl Scouts of Professor David Krakauer, the school’s 2011 options. Two-week summer workshops are being held in New Mexico Trails, the Supercomputing Challenge, and director. Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Las Cruces. New Mexico schools. >> g ove r n a n c e Board ovisionf Trustees Gary F. Bengier Stewart Greenfield Bill Miller * More people thinking in an ‘SFI way’ Senior Vice President of Chairman SFI Board Chair Emeritus Strategic Planning and Alternative Investment Group Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Some things need an overhaul…the practice of economics, for example. That’s Development, CFO (retired) Jordan Greenhall eBay Inc. Legg Mason Capital why Jim Rutt, Chair of SFI’s Board of Trustees, is immersing himself in the 600- Co-founder, CEO, and Chairman Management page report from the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Kay Taylor Burnett Founder and former CEO DivX Inc. Jerry Murdock Economic Crisis. He wants to be able to explain, from his own complexity point The Arts Alliance Center John H. Holland Managing Director and of view, the recent financial Professor Co-founder John D. Chisholm Insight Venture Partners meltdown to people “so CEO University of Michigan, Ann Arbor they will be outraged and John Chisholm Ventures Ann Nitze Mari Kooi President ready for serious, radical George Cowan CEO and Founder Ann Kendall Richards Inc. Lifetime Trustee Emeritus change,” he says. Wolf Asset Management Pierre Omidyar * Distinguished Fellow International LLC Co-founder and CEO Founding President Omidyar Network Other things don’t need Santa Fe Institute Simon A. Levin † * such radical revision. The Moffett Professor of Biology Founder and Chairman Esther Dyson Princeton University eBay Inc. Institute, for example, has Chairman J. Leighton Read evolved over the nine years EDventure Henry Lichstein Managing Partner General Partner Jim has been involved, and Elizabeth Hughes Eginton* Dryad Partners, Inc. Alloy Ventures Managing Director he believes a gradually im- Dan Lynch Jim Rutt Director of Marketing proving SFI has the power President Director Jim Rutt Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to change the world. Lynch Enterprises Proteus Foundation William Enloe Diana MacArthur Jeremy Sabloff† Chairman and CEO Chair and CEO (retired) President He sees a growing number of people and institutions thinking in an “SFI way.” Los Alamos National Bank Dynamac Corporation Santa Fe Institute He believes this is partly due to what he calls SFI’s “most powerful propaganda † Marcus W. Feldman Michael Mauboussin Bill Sick platform” – the Complex Systems Summer School. Well over a thousand students Wohlford Professor Chief Investment Strategist Chairman and CEO have participated since its debut in 1988, he explains. “Each brings the SFI mode Stanford University Legg Mason Capital Business Resources of thinking back to his or her home institution.” Similarly, he credits SFI’s Busi- John Geanakoplos † Management International ness Network for bringing an SFI thought process to major companies. Professor of Robert Maxfield Graham Spencer Economics President Engineering Director Yale University Maxfield Foundation Google “Most of the world’s major problems will be difficult to solve without complexity Murray Gell-Mann William Melton David B. Weinberger science. We have serious scholars working on serious issues, and SFI has a better, Distinguished Fellow President General Partner more powerful way of looking at things,” he says. Santa Fe Institute Melton Investments O’Connor Partners

n Chair † Ex officio member * Rotated off in 2010 14 www.santafe.edu Science Board

Philip W. Anderson Juris Hartmanis Richard Lewontin Jeremy A. Sabloff † Princeton University Cornell University Harvard University Santa Fe Institute Elizabeth Bradley John H. Holland Eric Maskin Daniel Schrag University of Colorado, Boulder University of Michigan, Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University David K. Campbell * Ann Arbor Lord Robert M. May * Derek Smith Co-chair (ending 6/30/10) Arthur M. Jaffe Oxford University University of Cambridge Boston University Harvard University Melanie Mitchell Daniel L. Stein Deborah M. Gordon Marcus W. Feldman Sallie Keller Portland State University New York University Co-chair (starting 7/1/10) Science and Technology Harold Morowitz Stanford University Charles Stevens Policy Institute George Mason University The Salk Institute Walter Fontana Eric Klopfer Mark Newman Ant colonies as emerging networks Harvard Medical School Geoffrey B. West Massachusetts Institute of University of Michigan, Santa Fe Institute Ann Arbor Stephanie Forrest Technology SFI Science Board member Deborah M. Gordon’s pre- Co-chair Peter Wolynes Mimi Koehl George Oster (starting 7/1/10) University of California, University of California, University of California, ferred method for studying complex systems is observing ant University of New Mexico San Diego Berkeley Berkeley colonies. Just as cells in a developing embryo differentiate Chris Wood † John Geanakoplos Alan Perelson Yale University Arthur Lander Santa Fe Institute without central control, no central authority governs the University of California, Irvine Los Alamos National Murray Gell-Mann Laboratory Henry T. Wright actions of individual ants. Yet an organized system emerges David Lane Santa Fe Institute David Pines University of Michigan, Università degli Studi di in the aggregate. Institute for Complex Ann Arbor, Museum of Deborah M. Gordon Modena e Reggio Emilia Anthropology Stanford University Adaptive Matter Richard Lenski Sir Martin Rees Her 2010 book, Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and David Gross Michigan State University Kavli Institute for Theoretical Trinity College, University Colony Behavior, explains how the rate and pattern of in- Simon A. Levin * of Cambridge Physics teractions among individual ants create a dynamic network University of California, Co-chair (ending 6/30/10) Donald Saari Santa Barbara Princeton University University of California, Irvine that coordinates the entire colony’s functions. The book is the first in the series “Primers in Complex Systems,” a col- laboration between SFI and Princeton University Press. Science Steering Committee

David K. Campbell † * Walter Fontana Simon A. Levin † * Chris Wood † Gordon is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford Boston University Harvard Medical School Princeton University Santa Fe Institute University. Raissa D’Souza Stephanie Forrest † Melanie Mitchell University of New Mexico Henry T. Wright * University of California, Davis Portland State University University of Michigan, J. Doyne Farmer John Geanakoplos Dan Rockmore Ann Arbor, Museum of Yale University Santa Fe Institute Dartmouth College Anthropology Mimi Koehl Nina Fedoroff * University of California, Jeremy A. Sabloff† Penn State University Berkeley Santa Fe Institute Marcus W. Feldman † David Krakauer Charles Stevens Stanford University Santa Fe Institute The Salk Institute n Chair † Ex officio member * Rotated off in 2010 “The Santa Fe Institute in fi nancials New Mexico [is] the center of

the intellectual universe for Total Expenses any researcher interested in

complex interacting systems, Science Programs 70% Facilities & Administration 27% whether in physics, biology, Development 3% geophysics, social science, or Total $10,178,454 anything else.” In response to continued economic uncertainties, – Philip Ball, SFI continued cost reductions initiated in 2009, former editor of Nature resulting in 2010 total expenses that were approxi- mately $400,000 less than in 2009.

Total Science Program Expenses

Research 69% Education 16% Business Network 6% Visits / Visitors 6% Workshops / Working Groups 3%

Total $7,126,273

As in previous years, two-thirds of SFI’s science program expenses were devoted to research, fol- lowed by education at 15-20 percent.

16 www.santafe.edu Total Revenues

Individual and Family Foundations 41% “My main response to people

Government 30% asking ‘How was SFI?’ has Business Network 10% been ‘Believe the hype!’ The Philanthropic Foundations 9% Institute is honestly one of the Investment Income 9% most inspiring places I have Other 1% Total $11,379,528 been to and I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to

spend time there.” In 2010 the distribution of revenue among contribution sources (individual and family foundations) and grants (govern- – Ben Ramalingam, ment and philanthropic foundations) returned to more “normal” levels, after a sharp decrease in contributions in 2008 author and visiting fellow, due to the economic crisis. Grant revenue remained relatively stable over the period of the crisis at approximately $4.3- Institute of Development $4.5 million. Revenues in this report include contributions designated for future expenditures and for endowment, but Studies, U.K. exclude pledges scheduled for future payment. >> commitment“Santa Fe and complexity theory have become almost synonymous.” – Science writer John Whitfield DONORS

Influencing a science revolution collaboration. I think the kinds of questions SFI is trying to answer are really foundational.” Collaboration has been Graham Spencer’s stock in As an SFI Trustee, Spencer plays an important role in guid- trade, from creating Excite in 1993 with five friends ing the Institute and promoting its research in the business from Stanford, to launching JotSpot with Excite and technology community. He and his wife, Cristina, co-founder Joe Kraus. He appreciates the spirit of trans- support SFI financially as well. They believe their contribu- disciplinary, collaborative research characteristic of SFI. tions to SFI go far because of its influence of the way people across many disciplines approach problems – including in the physical sciences, social sciences, computer networks, and business.

The theoretical nature of SFI’s research, however, makes it difficult for many donors to clearly see the impact of

Peter Olivetti Photography Olivetti Peter their philanthropy, and that holds some people back from giving, he says. “In my mind, that’s what makes it more important,” Spencer says. “SFI’s work is underappreciated relative to its importance.” Simon DeDeo at Voyages of Discovery

2010 events Discovery: The Planets,” an October 31 concert that interspersed the works of Debussy and Holst with projec- During SFI’s 2010 Ulam Lecture series in September tion images of the solar system and commentary by Dr. 2010, External Professor and Science Board member Mark Jose Francisco Salgado of Chicago’s Adler Planetarium Graham Spencer Newman highlighted the emerging field of network science and SFI Omidyar Fellow Simon DeDeo. and showed how networks are illuminating never-before- “I feel connected to the kind of science they do at SFI,” seen relationships and patterns in society and the world. In December 2010, SFI’s Chris Wood gave Silicon Val- Spencer says. “They’re studying fundamental questions in ley investors an overview of the Institute’s research, and a way that nobody else is doing it. People discover things SFI and the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra explored the its promise, as part of a Thiel Foundation event highlight- they might not have, if they hadn’t been exposed to that interface between science and music in “Voyages of ing the work of eight selected scientific non-profits.

18 www.santafe.edu With gratitude to our donors (funds received in 2010)

$500,000 and above William H. Hurt Joy and Philip LeCuyer Timothy G. Buchman Christopher Davis Louis Lerman Janine and Henry Lichstein Ronda Butler-Villa >> Bill Miller Michael Mauboussin Anne and John Marion Rachel Belash and Robert commitment Pam and Pierre Omidyar Deedee and Burton J. Penelope Penland Burman McMurtry Janet G. and Alan S. Beth Burnside $100,000 - 499,999 New Mexico Tech Perelson David K. Campbell Bengier Foundation Ann R. Nitze Krystal and Jason Pollock Thomas Carter George A. Cowan, Peters Family Foundation Deborah and Earl Potter Christine K. Cassel The Delle Foundation David Z. Robinson Paula and Jeremy Sabloff Diane and Fletcher Catron Diana MacArthur Holly Hayes and Carl Stern Sue and William Sauter Patricia E. Celebcigil Maxfield Foundation Lou and Hank Schuyler Katherin and David Chase, James S. 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Cowan Lou and Hank Schuyler Robert Galvin, Paul Galvin Coleman Anonymous (2) believe they could be the first couple to William Cowles Memorial Foundation Trust Ginger Richardson and R. Tobey Abrich become dedicated SFI donors during a vacation. In 1994 the pair Cassandra Cox Stewart Greenfield Stephen Collins Jan Denton and John Florence and Irwin Cromwell left New York City to spend several restful days in New Mexico. Alana Levinson-LaBrosse C. William Dedmon, Jr. Andrews Vesna Currie Both have backgrounds in science – she in information technology, Los Alamos National Bank Nancy and Ron Deutsch Frieda J. Arth Shirlee and Glen W. Dan Lynch, The Lynch Karen and Stephen Alison Hultin and Davidson he through branding and market research – so an announcement Family Foundation Durkovich Christopher Arthur Jeffrey S. Dean of an SFI community lecture one evening caught their attention. MacArthur Foundation Elizabeth Hughes Eginton Steve Bailey Terry D. Decker J. Leighton Read Karen A. Eipel JoAnn and Bob Balzer Fiquet H. Duckworth And they were hooked. Stephanie and Bill Sick Pedro Garcia Barreno Alan F. Barksdale James H. Duncan, Sr. Cristina Olivetti and Ann and Gordon Getty Charles F. Barr Vish Durga “This is a world of increasing specialization,” says Lou, “with Graham Spencer Foundation Edward Beardsworth Michael R. Edelman Edward A. Studzinski Kathy and Robert W. Virginia L. Bell Kelly and Brian Egolf scientists studying the most minute details.” Yet, both she and Gillespie Lisa and F. Gregg Bemis, Jr. Mildred and Richard M. Hank appreciate how everything in the world is connected and $5,000 - 24,999 Cynthia Grenfell Paul Bien Eldrick II Anonymous (2) Trevor Hawkins, Southwest Wendy and Brian W. Lisa Enfield and Paul interdependent. Hank says he has “always felt a place like SFI was Joyce and Philip W. C.A.R.E. Center Bloechle Bardacke sorely needed.” Anderson Melinda and David Peggy B. and Sid Bonner Eric Englund Gail and Andrew Berg Hoverson Claiborne Booker Lloyd Fadrique Katherine Collins Jackson Parent Teacher James N. Bradbury Aron Faegre Six years ago, the two retired and moved to Albuquerque. They Margaret DeWolf, Nick Student Association Elizabeth Bradley Richard Fagerstrom regularly attend lectures at SFI, Lou says, “to keep in touch with DeWolf Foundation Elizabeth and Stuart Travis Bridwell Earl Fain Esther Dyson Kauffman Rosalind and Kenneth Patricia and Glenn Ferguson what’s going on at the forefront of science.” The Steve and Georgia Paul Kirby Brooks Maurice C. Figueres Flannigan Charitable Fund Michael L. and Jeanne Klein Alice B. and David W. Barbara Fix Hank is pleased to have seen SFI grow and develop, citing such Murray Gell-Mann Mari Kooi Brown Debbie Fleischaker additions as the Business Network and a greater number of fellows. Google, Inc. LeBaron Foundation Judson D. Bryant James Forsythe At the same time, he says, “SFI has remained true to itself…a bril- > continued next page liant, shining example of where innovation takes place.” With gratitude to our donors (continued) $1 - 999 David King Alan Resnicke Eleanor and Peter Frank Pamela and Barry Susan Reyner Wendy and Bruce P. Fraser Kirschbaum Robert G. Ribe Verena and Hans Jacqueline and Gordon Jonathan F. P. Rose Frauenfelder Knobeloch James Ross J. Arthur Freed Nerses H. Krikorian Kim and James Rubin Loralee Freilich Claire and Richard H. George Ruptier Luke Friendshuh Kropschot Ernest A. Sammann Virginia and Alfred S. Fuller Patricia Kuhlhoff Virginia B. Savio Thomas Garcia Patricia Kushlis John McAllen Scanlan Kirsten and Daniel E. Angela and E. Smith Lanning Royanne and Larry Schissel Gardner Douglas Larrabee II Elizabeth and Richard Lillian Garfinkel Brian Lawler Schnieders Lewis Geer A.C. Lawson Mary E. Schruben J. Dee German Mark Lehner Kristin E. Schuetz John German Ginger and Lee Levin William L. Sharfman Keiko and Nicholas V. Ruth and Doug Lier Donald J. Sobik Giacona William Ludington Louise and Robert M. Coralie S. Ginsburg Jonathan Machta St. John Robert P. and Patricia E. Dorothy B. and Nathaniel Margaret Stanicci Godwin Trust Mann Keith E. Stanley Jenniphr Goodman and Eric Robin Martin Mary Beth and Robert Pope Elzbieta and Jerzy Maselko Starzel Elizabeth and William Maxon Margaret Gordon Carolyn B. and David Stupin Wendy Dunaway and Mike Michelle Gaugy Virginia Gould M. A. and Alan C. Swedlund McGonagle Phyllis Graber Frederick Taft Joyce and Steven Virginia Greninger Bonnie and Joseph Tainter Melander-Dayton Eddie Haggar Bobbin Teegarden Barbara Kimbell and William Achieving immortality through art, and science Janet and James Hall The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Michener Jack L. Hancock Foundation Florence and Maury A. Midlo Artists attempt to achieve a kind of perma- Over the 13 years Gaugy has lived in Santa Robin and Carl Hardin Jill and Don Tishman Christine O.C. and Dennis Ann Tukey and Michael J. Jessika Trancik nence – even immortality – in delicate brush Fe, her involvement in SFI has grown along F. Miller Harrison Alicia and William Miller Cynthia and Howard Turner strokes on stretched canvas, or in wood, fres- with her passion for complexity science. She Mary Ellen Harte Francoise Ulam Melanie Mitchell co, or marble. Art dealer Michelle Gaugy, believes that while scientists can change the Mary Jo and James B. Hartle William J. Moher Della Vigil Patricia and Ash Hartwell Michael R. Molino Jane and Richard E. Vodra owner of Gaugy Gallery in Santa Fe, is more world with their insights, benefactors can M. Peter Heilbrun Anthony Moorhead Ruth and Jeffrey Voluck pragmatic. She wants to leave her mark on likewise change the world by supporting that Yoshihiro Joseph Hemmi Homer S. Musgrave Charles F. Wall Donald Herbert Lynn Nadel Jonathan S. Weinberger the world through beauty and science. A research. “I want to help progress and good Phillip Hertzman Kai Nagel Claire and Steven Weiner self-described “science groupie,” she deeply in the world,” she says. “That commitment is Robert Hilley David O’Gorman Mary Carole and Jerry Brant Hinrichs Jerome A. Offner Wertheim appreciates the patterns in art and life. my small measure of immortality.” Paul Hoffman John A. Osmundsen Western Neurosurgical Jacquelyn and Jason Homer Society Bettina Milliken and David SFI Distinguished Fellow Murray Gell- Gaugy has made sure her support will out- Craig P. Horangic Padwa Pattie and Richard White Gregory A. Howell Donna Pedace William C. White Mann, Gaugy’s good friend, once chided live her by making the Institute a significant Larry Icerman James L. Pelkey Paul B. Whittemore her, saying she cared nothing for pure sci- heir in her estate. “SFI is doing work that Donna and Greg Jenkins Patricia L. and Stephen Terri R. and Steven E. Elisabeth and Kendall Pembridge Widergren ence. “I don’t care anything for science by is influencing the future of the world in Johnson Ann M. Peters Janislee and William H. Wiese itself, or art for that matter, or anything else by groundbreaking ways,” she says. “And it Norman L. Johnson Barbara and David Prescott Jay C. Willson Cathy and Paul Kalenian Philip Pritchard Jane Bloom and Daniel itself,” she admits. “What I care about is how needs more supporters. It deserves more William E. Keller Lee Purcell Yohalem everything connects, one to the other, then supporters. It doesn’t even occur to people to Howard Lee Kilby Sally and C.D. Randall Walter Edward Zesk Lawrence B. Kilham Virginia and Walter H. Suzanne and Walter M. how it connects to humanity as a whole. I be- put SFI in their estate plans – but it should.” John E. Killeen Reichelt Zierman lieve nothing has significance in and of itself.” SFI’s supporters are:

Individuals like you who appreciate fresh, scientific approaches to understanding society’s most complex issues. Because our world isn’t simple Companies whose collaborations with SFI through the Business Network bring transdisciplinary insights to business problems.

Philanthropic foundations that seek foundational solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges.

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Funding from private sources provides the majority of SFI’s operating budget. Donors receive our bi-monthly newsletter, the Update; our annual science magazine, the Bulletin; invita- tions to special events; and announcements about other ways to become active members of SFI’s community.

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