Design and Coordination of Micro- to Macro-Scale Swarms
9-10 June 2016, Radolfzell, Germany
We are pleased to announce the First Max Planck ETH Workshop on Design and Coordination of Micro- to Macro-Scale Swarms. The workshop will take place June 9-10th 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (MPI-ORN) in Radolfzell, Germany. We cordially invite all interested researchers from the Center for Learning Systems and fellow lab members, as well as members of the Couzin and Wikelski departments at MPI-ORN to participate and actively contribute to this workshop.
Swarms exist on all scales in chemistry, molecular biology, entomology, and more recently, robotics. Here, dynamic interactions between large numbers of relatively simple individuals result in complex emergent global patterns. Take as an example the amazing coordination that occurs between thousands of bees in a hive, or millions of cells joining to form hierarchical organ systems with embedded parallel and distributed functions. The success of these systems is typically associated with robustness due to redundancy and the ability to adapt to perturbations. This workshop will allow experts and novices of all fields to identify and address bottlenecks and solutions to common challenges related to our understanding, design and operation of swarms. Key topics will include:
The workshop will include around sixteen 15-20 min research talks and two poster/demo sessions. All attendees are encouraged to partake with a talk, poster, or demonstration. Please submit abstracts including your affiliation with the center by March 1st 2016 (max. 1 page). Talks will be chosen based on broad interest; the hope being to include as many different research fields as possible.
In addition to interactive presentations and short talks, we have invited five keynote speakers to talk of biological and artificial swarms. Two poster sessions and several social events will provide ample room for discussions and informal interactions.
We are excited to have the following invited speakers:
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology | |
Vogelwarte Radolfzell | |
Am Obstberg 1 | |
78315 Radolfzell | |
Germany |
Schedule (talks) & poster sessions
Description | From | To | |
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Coffee, MPI-O E3.02 | 10:00 | 10:30 | |
Opening talk | 10:30 | 10:45 | |
Keynote, Prof. Iain Couzin Collective Behavior in Groups of Animals |
10:45 | 11:45 | |
Prof. Marco Dorigo Collective Decision Making |
11:45 | 12:05 | |
Christoph Kleineidam Task allocation in ants organized at the colony level |
12:05 | 12:25 | |
Lunch, workshop/information area | 12:25 | 14:00 | |
Wendong Wang Programmable Self-assembly of Spinning Micro-rafts at Air-water Interface |
14:00 | 14:20 | |
Hakan Ceylan Molecular Collectives |
14:20 | 14:40 | |
Byungwook Park Biohybrid bacteria-driven microswimmers for targeted drug delivery systems |
14:40 | 15:00 | |
Coffee, MPI-O E3.02 | 15:00 | 15:30 | |
Keynote, Maximilian Kriegleder The Distributed Flight Array - from self- assembly to coordinated flight |
15:30 | 16:30 | |
Massimo Mastrangeli Design and Control of Macro- and Microscale Assembling Systems |
16:30 | 16:50 | |
Vijayakumar Chikkadi Self-organization in active colloidal systems |
16:50 | 17:10 | |
Samet Kocabey Membrane-Assisted Growth of DNA Origami Nanostructure Arrays |
17:10 | 17:30 | |
Keynote, Prof. Sijbren Otto Systems Chemistry |
17:30 | 18:30 | |
Dinner, MPI-O roof top terrace | 19:00 | 20:00 | |
Poster session | 20:00 | ... |
Description | From | To | |
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Breakfast, MPI-O guest house, MaxLounge | 07:30 | 08:00 | |
Coffee, MPI-O E3.02 | 08:00 | 08:30 | |
Keynote, Prof. Andrew Turberfield Molecular Machinery from DNA | 08:30 | 09:30 | |
Dan Gorbonos Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms - An Adaptive Gravity Model |
09:30 | 09:50 | |
Sebastian Trimpe, group leader Control and Communication Architecture for Medium-sized Swarms |
09:50 | 10:10 | |
Invited talk by Director, Prof. Metin Sitti Design and control of mobile microrobot teams and swarms |
10:10 | 10:30 | |
Coffee, MPI-O 2nd E3.02 / Poster session | 10:30 | 12:00 | |
Lunch, workshop/information area | 12:00 | 13:30 | |
Keynote, Prof. Auke Jan Ijspeert Distributed control of locomotion in modular robots |
13:30 | 14:30 | |
Lauren Vasey and Tobias Schwinn Digital and Physical Agent based Design and Construction methods |
14:30 | 14:50 | |
Rui Marcelino Players interactions in winning and in losing teams |
14:50 | 15:10 | |
Prof. Kirstin H. Petersen Construction by Robot Collectives |
15:10 | 15:30 | |
Anja Weidenmüller Collective temperature homeostasis in bumblebee colonies |
15:30 | 15:50 | |
Summary talks | 15:50 | 16:15 | |
Drive home! | 16:15 | ... |
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