Are there universal laws of life and can we find them? Is there a physics of society, of ecology, of evolution? Join us for six episodes of thought-provoking insights on the physics of life and its profound implications on our understanding of the universe. In this season of the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity podcast’s relaunch, we talk to researchers who have been exploring these questions and more through the lens of complexity science. Subscribe now and be part of the exploration!
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episode 4: Ep 4: The physics of collectives
Guests:
- Melanie Moses, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Biology at University of New Mexico
- Hyejin Youn, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Associate Professor at Institute of Northwestern University
Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes
Producer: Katherine Moncure
Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano
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More info:
SFI programs: Education
Complexity Explorer:
Fractals and Scaling
Fractals and Scaling: Toward a Theory of Urban Scaling
Introduction to Complexity: Ant Foraging and Task Allocation
- Books:
- Scale by Geoffrey West
- Complexity: a Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
Talks:
- Toward a Scientific Theory of Cities by Hyejin Youn
Papers & Articles:
- “Synergy in ant foraging strategies: memory and communication alone and in combination,” in GECCO’13: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (July 6, 2013), doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463389
- “In vivo, in silico, in machina: Ants and Robots balance memory and communication to collectively exploit information,” in Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012
- “What makes individual I’s a Collective We; coordination mechanisms & costs” in arXiv (November 20, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02113
- “How does innovation push its boundaries?” in 43 Visions for Complexity, Exploring Complexity: Volume 3 (January 2017), doi.org/10.1142/9789813206854_0043