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Biological and artificial swarms

October 3 - 4, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Friday, October 03, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 9:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45 - 10:30

Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)

"Teamwork using distributed POMDPs"

10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30

Stephen Simpson (Oxford University)

"Biblical Swarms: A Behavioural Analysis of Phase Change in the Desert Locust"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:15

Maja J. Mataric (University of Southern California)

"Formalizing Intentional and Emergent Group Behaviour in Robots"

12:15 - 1:45 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

1:45 - 2:30

Steven Viscido (University of Washington)

"Individual Behavior and Emergent Properties of Fish Schools: A Comparison of Observation and Theory"

2:30 - 3:15

P. S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)

"Geometry of Steering Laws for Swarming"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:30

Iain Couzin (Princeton University)

"Self-Organization and Collective Behavior in Animal Groups"

4:30 - 5:00

Daniel Marthaler (Duke University)

"PDE-Based Path Planning Methods for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles"


Saturday, October 04, 2003

Morning Session

10:00 - 10:30

Gary Hewer (Naval Air Warfare Center)

"Auction Algorithms for Multiassignment Swarming"

10:30 - 11:15

Anke Ordemann (University of Marburg)

"Swarming of the Zooplankton Daphnia: Experiment and Theory"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00

Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute)

"Modeling Adaptive Robot Swarms"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:15 - 1:45

Chad Topaz (UCLA)

"Swarming Dynamics of a Model for Biological Groups in Two Dimensions"

1:45 - 2:15

Cristian Huepe (Northwestern University)

"Intermittency and clustering in a system of self-driven particles"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 4:30 Discussion (all)
4:30 Conclusion

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