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 [...]

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B has just published a special issue about group decision making in humans and animals. This special edition has been edited by Larissa Conradt and Christian List and introduces long standing social science concepts and methodology into the newly expanding field of animal collective decision making. It also considers approaches in [...]

I found on Google Tech Talk channel this talk by Deborah Gordon from Stanford University. She speaks about her studies on ant behaviour and summarizes the work of her team during these last years. Enjoy this very informative free and online seminar! 

How ant colonies get things done, by Deborah Gordon

During Obama’s inauguration, the satellites of GeoEye took the picture below showing the Capitole in Washington. If you click on it, you will discover the high definition version of the picture where you will see huge groups of human beings aggregated around big TV screens. It really looks like insect swarms around patches of food. 

Eat or be eaten! This could be the motto of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria that is famous for its impressive and devastating mass migrations. In a recent paper in Current Biology (see the cover on the right), Sepideh Bazazi and its colleagues showed that the collective motion of locust bands is driven by cannibalistic [...]

Just a short post to inform of my recent move to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary at Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey). I obtained a postdoctoral grant from the Fyssen Foundation and joined the Collective Animal Behaviour lab led by Professor Iain Couzin. I will work there on the formation of foraging trail networks in [...]

Le mercredi 19 novembre 2008, je soutiendrais ma thèse de doctorat, intitulées  "Décisions collectives dans des systèmes d’intelligence en essaim", à l’Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse. Cette soutenance se déroulera à partir de 14h dans l’amphithéâtre Concorde du bâtiment U4 de l’Université. 
Le jury de thèse sera composé des personnalités suivantes :

Guy Theraulaz, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, [...]

A special issue on Swarm Robotics has just been published and a new one is already in preparation. I just learned that the "International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics" plans a special edition on Swarm Robotics for next year. Guest editors for this special issue are Professor S. Hettiarachchi from Eastern Oregon University and Professor William [...]

The special issue of the Swarm Intelligence journal dedicated to Swarm Robotics is available online on the journal website. This issue contains the six following articles:

Special issue on swarm robotics. Erol Şahin and Alan Winfield.
Self-organized flocking in mobile robot swarms. Ali E. Turgut, Hande Çelikkanat, Fatih Gökçe and Erol Şahin.
Massively multi-robot simulation in stage. Richard [...]