Agent-Based Complex Systems

October 12 - 14, 2009

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 12, 2009

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00
Mark Alber (University of Notre Dame)

Stochastic modeling of bacterial swarming

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
Charlotte Hemelrijk (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen)

Self-organised aerial displays of thousands of starlings: A Model

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:30
Pierre Degond (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

Continuum models for complex systems
PDF Presentation

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00
5:00 - 7:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
David Spivak (University of Oregon)

Agents as nodes in a fuzzy simplicial set
PDF Presentation

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California (USC))

Stochastic Models of Social Web Sites
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
P. Jeffrey Brantingham (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Agent-based and continuum models of crime pattern formation

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Swarming by Nature and by Design

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:30
Sanjeevi Krishnan (United States Naval Research Laboratory)

Directed cohomology

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00
Alethea Barbaro (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Agent-based modeling for animal migration and gang behavior
PDF Presentation