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Swarming by Nature and by Design

February 27 - March 3, 2006

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, February 27, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

Stephen Simpson (University of Sydney)

"Mass marching in locusts and cannibal crickets: new insights into collective movement"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Iain Couzin (University of Oxford)

"Collective Animal Behavior"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Emma Despland (Concordia University)

"Synchronization of behaviour in groups of locusts and caterpillars"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

2:30 - 3:30

Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)

"Swarming by Nature and by Design "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Daniel Grunbaum (University of Washington)

"Key elements of individual behaviors causing diverse group and population-level dynamics in schooling fish."

5:00 Poster Session
5:00 - 6:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Udo Erdmann (Humboldt-Universität)

"Dynamics of Swarms - A Physicists Approach"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Maria D'Orsogna (UCLA)

"The road to collapse: pattern formation, stability and collapse of 2D interacting particles"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

John Baillieul (Boston University)

" Structured and Stochastic Rules for Motions of Groups of Robotic Agents"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

2:30 - 3:30

Herbert Levine (University of California, San Diego)

"Self-engineering capabilities of bacterial colonies"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Naomi Leonard (Princeton University)

"Collective Motion in Engineered and Natural Multi-Agent Systems"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)


Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Carolyn Boettcher (Raytheon)

"Experimental Results of Using Swarming Techniques for Real-time Tasking of UAVs"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Francesco Bullo (UC Santa Barbara)

"Motion coordination for multi-agent networks"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

To Be Announced

2:30 - 3:30

Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania)

"Scalable Approaches to Deploying Swarms of Multiple Vehicles"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Eric Justh (University of Maryland)

"Natural frames and the design of interaction laws in three dimensions"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

5:00 - 6:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Claire Tomlin (Stanford University)

"Distributed Optimization for Multiple Aircraft and Airlines"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

A Morse (Yale University)

"Reaching a Consensus in a Dynamically Changing Environment"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:10

Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

"Modelling Daphnia Swarming"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

2:10 - 2:50

Edward Ott (University of Maryland)

"Dynamics of a Continuum Model of Swarms"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

2:50 - 3:30

Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Edward Ott (University of Maryland)

"Crowd Synchronization on the London Millennium Bridge"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Chad Topaz (UCLA)

"Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and localization"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Friday, March 03, 2006

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

P. S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)

"Pursuit, Stealth and Cohesion: Lessons from Nature"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology)

"Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Gordon Swartzman (University of Washington)

"A bird’s eye view of fish schools"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

2:30 - 3:30

Emilio Frazzoli (UCLA)

"Dynamic Task-Based Coordination of Vehicle Networks"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Bjorn Birnir (UC Santa Barbara)

"Simplicity and Swarming in Discrete and Continuous Models of Pelagic Fish"
Presentation (PDF File)

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