Swarming by Nature and by Design - IPAM

Swarming by Nature and by Design

February 27 - March 3, 2006

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 27, 2006

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
Stephen Simpson (University of Sydney)
Mass marching in locusts and cannibal crickets: new insights into collective movement
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Iain Couzin (University of Oxford)
Collective Animal Behavior
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Emma Despland (Concordia University)
Synchronization of behaviour in groups of locusts and caterpillars
14:30-15:30
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Swarming by Nature and by Design
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Daniel Grunbaum (University of Washington)
Key elements of individual behaviors causing diverse group and population-level dynamics in schooling fish.
17:00
Poster Session
17:00-18:30
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Udo Erdmann (Humboldt-Universität)
Dynamics of Swarms - A Physicists Approach
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Maria D'Orsogna (California State University, Northridge (CSU Northridge))
The road to collapse: pattern formation, stability and collapse of 2D interacting particles
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
John Baillieul (Boston University)
Structured and Stochastic Rules for Motions of Groups of Robotic Agents
14:30-15:30
Herbert Levine (University of California, San Diego)
Self-engineering capabilities of bacterial colonies
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Naomi Leonard (Princeton University)
Collective Motion in Engineered and Natural Multi-Agent Systems

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Carolyn Boettcher (Raytheon)
Experimental Results of Using Swarming Techniques for Real-time Tasking of UAVs
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Francesco Bullo (UC Santa Barbara)
Motion coordination for multi-agent networks
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
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Swarms of microscopic devices: applications to biology and medicine
14:30-15:30
Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania)
Scalable Approaches to Deploying Swarms of Multiple Vehicles
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Eric Justh (University of Maryland)
Natural frames and the design of interaction laws in three dimensions
17:00-18:30
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Claire Tomlin (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Distributed Optimization for Multiple Aircraft and Airlines
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
A Morse (Yale University)
Reaching a Consensus in a Dynamically Changing Environment
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:10
Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Modelling Daphnia Swarming
14:10-14:50
Edward Ott (University of Maryland)
Dynamics of a Continuum Model of Swarms
14:50-15:30
Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Crowd Synchronization on the London Millennium Bridge
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Chad Higdon-Topaz (Williams College)
Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and localization

Friday, March 3, 2006

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
P. S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)
Pursuit, Stealth and Cohesion: Lessons from Nature
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology)
Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Gordon Swartzman (University of Washington)
A bird’s eye view of fish schools
14:30-15:30
Emilio Frazzoli (UCLA)
Dynamic Task-Based Coordination of Vehicle Networks
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Bjorn Birnir (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Simplicity and Swarming in Discrete and Continuous Models of Pelagic Fish
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