All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)
Friday, October 3, 2003
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:15
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Continental Breakfast
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9:15 - 9:45
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:45 - 10:30
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Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)
Teamwork using distributed POMDPs
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10:30 - 10:45
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Break
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10:45 - 11:30
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Stephen Simpson (Oxford University)
Biblical Swarms: A Behavioural Analysis of Phase Change in the Desert Locust

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11:30 - 12:15
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Maja J. Mataric (University of Southern California)
Formalizing Intentional and Emergent Group Behaviour in Robots
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12:15 - 1:45
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Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
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Afternoon Session
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1:45 - 2:30
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Steven Viscido (University of Washington)
Individual Behavior and Emergent Properties of Fish Schools: A Comparison of Observation and Theory
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2:30 - 3:15
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P. S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)
Geometry of Steering Laws for Swarming
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3:15 - 3:45
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Break
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3:45 - 4:30
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Iain Couzin (Princeton University)
Self-Organization and Collective Behavior in Animal Groups
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4:30 - 5:00
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Daniel Marthaler (Duke University)
PDE-Based Path Planning Methods for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
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Saturday, October 4, 2003
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Morning Session
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10:00 - 10:30
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Gary Hewer (Naval Air Warfare Center)
Auction Algorithms for Multiassignment Swarming
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10:30 - 11:15
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11:15 - 11:30
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Break
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11:30 - 12:00
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12:00 - 1:15
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:15 - 1:45
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Chad Higdon-Topaz (UCLA)
Swarming Dynamics of a Model for Biological Groups in Two Dimensions
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1:45 - 2:15
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2:15 - 2:30
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Break
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2:30 - 4:30
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Panel Discussion
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4:30
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Conclusion
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