On June 24th is organized in Paris a wrokshop about transportation networks in nature and technology. The theme of the workshop revolves around the properties of transportation networks found in natural systems and man-made infrastructures. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers at the forefront of research activity across disciplines, focusing on [...]

Next Wednesday (June 9th 2010), Professor Yan Meng invited me to give a talk at the Stevens Institute of Technology, near New-York. The lecture will hold at 2pm in room 204 of Babbio Center. The title of the seminar is "From biology to robotics, and back". Hereafter is the abstract:

During swarm robotics meetings, one can [...]

The 2011 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2011) will be held in Paris, France, April 11 – 15, 2011. It will be part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011. The aim of the SIS2011 is to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, students, engineers, and government officers from all over the world to [...]

On November 8-12, 2010, Andreas Deutsch, Guy Theraulaz and Tamas Vicsek will organize an international workshop on "Statistical Physics and Biology of Collective Motion". This workshop will be dedicated to the identification and documentation of new unifying principles describing the essential aspects of collective motion in living systems. The workshop will hold at the Max Planck Institute for [...]

Pr. Iain Couzin (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) was recently invited to participate in the first live event of the AWE-MAGEDDON series organized by Radiolab, a popular scientific radio show on WNYC. Hereafter is an excerpt of this show where Iain Couzin introduces the work done at his lab and answer to some [...]

During the next SIMAI biannual congress (SIMAI 2010), Dr. Andrea Tosin (Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino) and Dr. Paolo Frasca (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo) are organizing a symposium on crowds and swarm dynamics. The participation (as speaker) of this symposium is reserved to young, not tenured researchers. This symposium aims at bringing [...]

Prof. Yan Meng (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology) and Prof. Yaochu Jin (Honda Research Institute Europe) are organizing a special workshop on "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems" during the next ICRA 2010 conference. The conference will hold from May 3 to May 8, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. The workshop will be [...]

This year, the ASAB Easter meeting will be hosted by the School of Psychology at University of Exeter and will focus on “Animal societies from genes to populations”. It will consist of talks about up-to-date techniques, methods and approaches used in the study of social behaviour. This meeting is aimed at PhD students and early postdocs. 
The first day [...]

The next ANTS conference on Swarm Intelligence has been scheduled on September 8-10, 2010. As usual, it will be held in Brussels (Belgium) and will be chaired by Professor Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles). All information can be found on the website of the conference: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2010/. 

Important dates to remember: 

Submission deadline: February 28, 2010

Notification of [...]