Agent-Based Complex Systems - IPAM

Agent-Based Complex Systems

October 12 - 14, 2009

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 12, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
Mark Alber (University of Notre Dame)
Stochastic modeling of bacterial swarming
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:15
Bjorn Birnir (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Changes in Migration Patterns of the Capelin as an Indicator of Temperature Changes in the Arctic Ocean
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Charlotte Hemelrijk (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen)
Self-organised aerial displays of thousands of starlings: A Model

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Pierre Degond (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
Continuum models for complex systems
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Nina Fefferman (Rutgers University)
Stability and Success of Emergent Social Structures in Dynamically Self-Organizing Populations
17:00-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
David Spivak (Topos Institute)
Agents as nodes in a fuzzy simplicial set
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:15
Christopher Hillar (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
Adaptive compressed sensing - a new class of self-organizing coding models for neuroscience
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Edward Ott (University of Maryland)
Emergent Behavior in Systems of Many Coupled Phase Oscillators

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Markos Katsoulakis (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
From individual interactions to hierarchical mesoscale models for agent-based, complex dynamics
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California (USC))
Stochastic Models of Social Web Sites

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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
Sara Del Valle (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Modeling the Impact of H1N1 in the United States using a Massive Agent-Based Simulation
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Swarming by Nature and by Design

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Sanjeevi Krishnan (United States Naval Research Laboratory)
Directed cohomology
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Alethea Barbaro (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Agent-based modeling for animal migration and gang behavior
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