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 [...]

Tiny, self-assembling robots can swim and clamp onto particles and then release them when subjected to the right magnetic fields.
These mini robotic doughnuts spontaneously form from metal particles floating between a layer of oil and water, and could potentially be used to manipulate chemical reactions, deliver medical treatments in the body or clean surfaces.
“It’s really [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, PLoS ONE published my last article co-authored with my good friend Alexandre Campo, his students Olivier Dédriche and Mouhcine Zekkri, and Marco Dorigo (do I need to introduce him?). In this paper, we present a self-organizing mechanism that allows a group of individuals (in this case robots) to select a resource that matches its [...]

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 [...]

Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Physics of Collective Behavior: An Experimental Approach

Principal Investigators: Iain D. Couzin and Cristian Huepe.
Based in Princeton University
CouzinLab website: http://icouzin.princeton.edu
We are seeking a postdoctoral research associate to work with us on our project entitled “Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Collective Dynamics of Swarming Systems”, funded by the National Science Foundation.
The proposed research will [...]

Hereafter is a video of famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins speaking about leaf cutter ants. It's not a brand new video, but it's always interesting to hear about these fascinating ants. I hope you'll enjoy it too.

Thanks to http://www.antblog.co.uk/ for this discovery.

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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 [...]

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 [...]