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 [...]

On June 7-9, 2010, the MIBS project (Modeling and Information Processing for Systems Biology) organizes a workshop on "Modeling complex dynamics in biological systems". MIBS is an interdisciplinary project involving all academic and research institutions of the Toulouse area (France), with the goal of promoting and developing a strong and wide expertise on systems biology in Toulouse.
Systems [...]

- Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Schooling Fish -

Start date: Mid-October 2010 or sooner
A postdoctoral position is available in the Collective Animal Behavior Laboratory at Princeton University to study collective information processing using schooling fish as a model system. This is part of a multidisciplinary investigation of decision-making by animal groups. Specifically we aim to [...]

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 [...]

Interested in studying gregarious fish behaviors in a tropical island in the Indian Ocean? If yes, this short term position (17 months) is probably for you:
Position: Computer Scientist in Spatial Analysis and Data Integration
Location: IRD Reunion Island, France
Duration: 17 months from June 2010 to December 2011
Deadline: 31st of May 2010
Salary Range: ~ 3000€ by month
IRD [...]

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 [...]