Workshop 4: Insect Self-organization and Swarming
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| Monday, March 14
30 Years of Self-organization |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:15-9:30am | Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Audrey Dussutour: Moving in the crowd: Ants hold the key to traffic chaos | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Jean-Louis Deneubourg | ||
| 10:30-11:00am | Nigel Franks: Self-organization in Insect Societies: past, present and future | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30-1:00pm | Ice breaking session, each non-speaking participant has 3 minutes to present him/herself and what he/she is doing. Each participant makes a single pdf page with a summary of work and this is shown while they stand up and present themselves. | ||
| 1:00-2:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:30-3:00pm | Paulien Hogeweg: Division of labor and emergent adaptation | ||
| 3:00-3:30pm | Fred Adler: Parallel Work and Parallel Play | ||
| 3:30-4:00pm | Coffee | ||
| 4:00-5:00pm | Discussion: Where is self-organisation going? Leader: David Sumpter | ||
| 5:00pm | Reception | ||
| 7:00pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| Tuesday, March 15 Collective motion of swarms: Theory and Experiment |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Leah Edelstein-Keshet: Modeling flocks and swarms | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Stephen Simpson: From swarms to cannibalism to obesity: lessons from locusts | ||
| 10:30-11:00am | Andrew Bernoff: A Primer of Swarm Equilibria | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Break | ||
| 11:30-1:00pm | Discussion: Experimental methods for understanding collective motion Leader: Madeleine Beekman | ||
| 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:30pm | Iain Couzin: From democratic consensus to cannibalistic hordes: the mechanism and evolution of collective behavior | ||
| 2:30-3:00pm | William Romey: The Road from Individual to Group Position to Emergence in Whirligig Swarms | ||
| 3:00-3:30pm | Cristian Huepe: Adaptive network models of swarm dynamics | ||
| 3:30-4:00pm | Break | ||
| 4:00-5:00pm | Discussion: Establishing properties of swarming models Leader: Chad Topaz | ||
| 5:15pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| Wednesday, March 16 Collective motion of swarms: Theory and Experiment, continued |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Tom Seeley: Collective decision making by honey bees | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Mary Myerscough: Swarm guidance in Apis florea: making decisions on the fly? | ||
| 10:30-11:00am | Kevin Passino: Cohesive Swarm Behavior With Information Flow Constraints | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Break | ||
| 11:30-1:00pm | Presentations session: Bring your most beautiful and interesting data sets and simulation outcomes and display them for discussion. | ||
| 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:00pm | Free afternoon/Outing | ||
| Thursday, March 17 Complicated Interactions in Insect Societies |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Jennifer Fewell: Organization and regulation of work in the social insect colony | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Nina Fefferman: Evolutionary Constraints on Social Organization from Disease Risks | ||
| 10:30-11:00am | Claire Detrain: Audience and information transfer in ant societies | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Break | ||
| 11:30-1:00pm | Discussion: Reconciling individual and group complexity Leader: Stephen Pratt | ||
| 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:30pm | TBA | ||
| 2:30-3:00pm | Guy Theraulaz: Swarms as smart architects: understanding construction dynamics in ant colonies | ||
| 3:00-3:30pm | James Marshall: Optimality theory in collective behaviour | ||
| 3:30-4:00pm | Break | ||
| 4:00-5:00pm | Discussion: Modeling methods for social insect organization Leader: David Sumpter | ||
| 5:15pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| 6:00-7:00pm | Cash Bar | ||
| 7:00pm | Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel | ||
| Friday, March 18 Networks of Social and Engineered Systems |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:15am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Naomi Leonard: Network topology and the evolution of collective migration | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Radhika Nagpal: Engineering Self-Organizing Systems | ||
| 10:30-11:00am | Martin Middendorf: Social Insects and Organic Computing | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Break/Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH) | ||
| 11:30-1:00pm | Discussion: Swarm applications Leader: Vijay Kumar | ||
| 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:30pm | Alcherio Martinoli: Multi-Level Modeling and Distributed Control for Miniature Robotic Swarms | ||
| 2:30-3:00pm | Craig Tovey | ||
| 3:00-3:30pm | P.S. Krishnaprasad: Variational Principles and Control of Collective Behavior | ||
| 3:45pm | One Shuttle back to hotel One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH) |
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