Dr. Andrea Perna (Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes), Prof. David Sumpter (Mathematics Department, Uppsala Universty) and Dr. Guy Theraulaz (CRCA, CNRS) will be the editors of a special issue on Collective Decision in Biological Swarms for the Swarm Intelligence Journal. This special issue calls for papers focusing on different aspects and issues of collective decision in [...]

Dr. Vito Trianni (LARAL-ISTC-CNR, Italy), Dr. Elio Tuci (LARAL-ISTC-CNR, Italy) and Prof. Kevin M. Passino (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, OH, USA) will be the editors of a special issue on Swarm Cognition for the Swarm Intelligence Journal. The call for papers can be found at the following address: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Main_Page. Hereafter is the accompanying [...]

Found while searching the web: http://www.weswarm.com. "All about swarms" says the (hopefully) temporary front page. Any information about this new website are welcome. 
Launching expected for next February, I can't wait to see what and who hides behind this. 

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 [...]

Update: here is the link to the website of the workshop http://cognition.ups-tlse.fr/fintha/index.html.
From September 23 to September 25, 2009, will hold in the European Centre for Living Technologies in Venice (Italy) a workshop dedicated to the "Engineering principles of innovation in swarm-made architectures". 
The aim of the workshop is to address some of the fundamental issues related to the construction and [...]

Update: Extension of the submission deadline to May 15, 2009.
Dr. Nikolaus Correll from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the MIT informed me today about the forthcoming deadline of a special issue on swarm intelligence and swarm robotics. This special issue will be published early 2010 in the journal Neural Computing & Applications. 
This special [...]

 
Important Dates

Paper submission deadline 1 June 2009
Notice of acceptance 12 June 2009
Camera ready deadline 3 July 2009
Workshop date 29 July 2009

Overview
"Swarm Cognition" is the juxtaposition of two relatively unrelated concepts that evoke, on the one hand, the power of collective behaviours displayed by natural swarms, and on the other hand the complexity of [...]

Following the seminar given by Irene Giardina on Thursday, April 2, Professor Andrea Cavagna will speak next Monday (April 6) about a quantitative field study of flocking in starlings (STARFLAG project). The seminar will stand at Princeton University, Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall, from 12:15pm to 1:15pm. Hereafter is a summary of the talk:

 
Bird flocking [...]

Next Thursday (April 7, 2009), Professor Stephen Simpson from the University of Sidney will give a talk at Princeton University about his work with locusts. The talk will be a part of the "Princeton Frontiers of Biology Lectures" and will stand at Friend Center, Auditorium 101, from 4:30pm to 5:30pm. From Princeton University website:

"Simpson’s dual research [...]

It’s probably a bit late to announce this talk, but Professor Irene Giardina from the University of Rome La Sapienza will speak Thursday, April 2, about collective animal behaviour at Princeton University. The talk will stand at Jadwin Hall A10, from 4:30pm to 5:30pm. Hereafter is the summary of this talk:

"Collective behaviour is a widespread phenomenon [...]