A postdoctoral position in Human collective behavior is available at the Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University.
The collective behavior research group uses a combination of mathematical models and experiments to understand the dynamics of animal and human groups. See http://www2.math.uu.se/~david/web/ for details of their current research. Some current projects on humans involve the study of socially contagious [...]

September 12-14, 2012. Brussels, Belgium
Call for papers prepared on October 4, 2011. More details and up-to-date information at http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012.
 
Important Dates
Submission deadline           March 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance    May 3, 2012
Camera ready copy             May 17, 2012
Conference                    September 12-14, 2012
 
Scope of the Conference
Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the study of self-organizing processes both in nature and [...]

Next year, Springer will publish the last book of Dirk Helbing, "Social self-organization", on large-scale social behaviors in human beings. Hereafter is the presentation text of the book. More information about the book can be found here. 

What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the [...]

Dr. Dustin Reishus from the Correll lab at the University of Colorado will be teaching a course entitled "Swarm Intelligence and Self-Assembly" this fall. The course look at large-scale distributed systems in chemistry, biology, and robotics through the lens of mathematics and computer science. It will address such questions as:

How do ant colonies forage for [...]

This year's ECAL 2011 will held from August 8 to 12 in Paris, France. ECAL, the European Conference on Artificial Life, is a biennial event that alternates with the US-based Alife conference series.
Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary undertaking that investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of biological entities and [...]

Alex Wild, biologist, talented photographer and author of the ant-dedicated blog myrmecos.net, has decided to have an entire week of his blog dedicated to the fascinating army ants. If you never heard about Alex Wild or about army ants, I strongly advise you to fill this gap in your knowledge by visiting his website. It's [...]

The International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2011) will take place in Cergy (Paris area), France, in June 14-15, 2011. It has recently issued a call for contributions. The main topics that will be discussed during this conference will be:

Theoretical advances of particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization. 
Optimization techniques in dynamic, multi-objective, constrained environments. 
Grid and [...]

The Second International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2011) will be held in Chongqing, China, from June 12 to 15, 2011. ICSI’2011 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, educators and practitioners to present the state of art of swarm intelligence research and applications in diverse fields. The conference will feature plenary lectures [...]

Leslie Marsh, Assistant Director of the New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies, informed me of a coming special issue of Cognitive Systems Research dedicated to stigmergy. Along with Margery Doyle (Air Force Research Lab), he will be editor of this special issue and invite all researchers interested in stigmergic behaviors and communication [...]

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 [...]