Santa Fe Complex: Applying the creativity of artists, scientists and technologists to solve complex problems for both business and society. more…
Santa Fe Complex Awarded NSF Grant
The Santa Fe Complex is part of the New Mexico “brain trust,” along with the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, awarded $597,220 in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Partnership for Innovation program.
The grant will fund the development of the hardware and software that make it possible to use “fulldome immersive environments”–such as the LodeStar planetarium at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science–to help people visualize, simulate, or experientially comprehend a wide range of information. more…
Simtable Wins $100,000 VAF Award
Simtable, a company that got its start at the Santa Fe Complex, has been selected as the recipient of a $100,000 award from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Venture Acceleration Fund.
Chip Garner and Stephen Guerin shed new light on wildfire modeling. Photo Credit: Bill Stengel
Simtable is a technology developed for wildfire training, incident command, and community outreach that combines hardware and software to create simulations on sand. more…
Visualization Challenge Winners To Be Displayed at Complex
Five winners of the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge will be on display at the Santa Fe Complex in conjunction with the Art & Science of Systems Biology event taking place March 26-27.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science, this competition honors extraordinary photographs, illustration, videos, and graphics that reveal intricate details of life and the world around us—down to the smallest scale. more…
Eric Glick Rieman – Prepared Rhodes
| March 20, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Performing on a variety of instruments, including the prepared/extended Rhodes electric piano, as well as piano, melodica, celeste, Waterphone, and toy piano, SF Bay Area composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman performs improvised and previously structured music. He writes for piano and for ensembles, and his work for the prepared and extended Rhodes piano is featured in this performance. more…
Santa Fe Open Coffee Club
| March 25, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
The Santa Fe Open Coffee Club invites anyone interested in startups in New Mexico to meet at the Santa Fe Complex for informal networking with developers, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, and other interested parties. The Open Coffee Club, part of a worldwide network begun originally in the U.K., was created as a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet. For more information about the local club, click here.
The Art and Science of Systems Biology
| March 26, 2010 | to | March 27, 2010 |
The Art and Science of Systems Biology is a two-day event that will feature public lectures on quantitative biology, workshops for kids, and an exhibition of winning pieces in the NSF-sponsored 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. This competition celebrates the grand tradition of the visualization of research—powerful statements made not through words, but through visuals such as DaVinci’s diagrams or Rosalind Franklin’s x-rays. more…
Meet Early-Stage Investor Brad Feld
| April 1, 2010 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Join entrepreneur and early-stage investor Brad Feld at the Complex for “Beers with Brad.” Feld authors the popular blog Feld Thoughts and is the managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology companies. Feld will share his views on entrepreneurship and early-stage companies in today’s environment. more…
Café Scientifique
| April 15, 2010 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Café Scientifique reaches out to teens in Santa Fe to engage them in science relevant to their lives. At this meeting of the group, they consider the following scenario: It is a late Fall afternoon and two hikers are enjoying a brisk walk in the mountains. They are miles from the nearest the town and miles from the nearest person. They go around a curve in the trail when suddenly they stumble across human remains. Who is this person? How did they get here? How did they die? more…
