Biological and Artificial Swarms - IPAM

Biological and Artificial Swarms

Part of the Long Program Inverse Problems: Computational Methods and Emerging Applications
October 3 - 4, 2003

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Friday, October 3, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Continental Breakfast
09:15-09:45
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:45-10:30
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California (USC))
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
11:30-12:15
Maja J. Mataric (University of Southern California)
Formalizing Intentional and Emergent Group Behaviour in Robots

Afternoon Session

12:15-13:45
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
13:45-14:30
Steven Viscido (University of Washington)
Individual Behavior and Emergent Properties of Fish Schools: A Comparison of Observation and Theory
14:30-15:15
P. S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)
Geometry of Steering Laws for Swarming
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
Iain Couzin (University of Oxford)
Self-Organization and Collective Behavior in Animal Groups
16:30-17:00
Daniel Marthaler (Duke University)
PDE-Based Path Planning Methods for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Saturday, October 4, 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 Missouri-St. Louis)
Swarming of the Zooplankton Daphnia: Experiment and Theory
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:00
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California (USC))
Modeling Adaptive Robot Swarms

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:15
Lunch (on your own)
13:15-13:45
Chad Higdon-Topaz (Williams College)
Swarming Dynamics of a Model for Biological Groups in Two Dimensions
13:45-14:15
Cristian Huepe (Northwestern University)
Intermittency and clustering in a system of self-driven particles
14:15-14:30
Break
14:30-16:30
Panel Discussion
16:30
Conclusion
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