International Research Groups

• The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent academic research and educational institution with students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. NECSI conducts classes, seminars and conferences to assist students, faculty and professionals in their understanding of complex systems. NECSI irregularly hosts the International Conference on Complex Systems.
• The Santa Fe Institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. Its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical, computational, biological, and social systems that underlie many of the most profound problems facing science and society today. The Santa Fe Institute was among the pioneers in the field of complexity thinking and is a major hub for interdisciplinary research collaborations.
• The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary program in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their mission is to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems.
• At the University of Vermont, Stuart Kauffman is establishing the Complex Systems Center with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research, educational and technology-transfer activities.
• At the University of Maryland, the Center for Complexity in Business uses various techniques from the field of complexity science to study, among other things, how the adoption of new innovations spreads through networks, and how organizational performance depends on relationships that individuals in the organization maintain.
• The Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), based in the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Surrey, is a multidisciplinary centre bringing together the social sciences, software engineering and agent-based computing to promote and support the use of social simulation in research in the human sciences.