Simon Garnier » Website http://www.simongarnier.com Swarm behaviours in natural and artificial systems Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:39:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Army ant week at myrmecos.net http://www.simongarnier.com/army-ant-week-at-myrmecos-net/ http://www.simongarnier.com/army-ant-week-at-myrmecos-net/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:59:23 +0000 Simon Garnier http://www.simongarnier.com/?p=636 Soldier of the species Eciton burchelliAlex 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 gonna be a very interesting week!

The first article of the series has been posted today at the following address: http://myrmecos.net/2011/02/06/what-are-army-ants/.  

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]]> http://www.simongarnier.com/mark-moffets-interview-in-los-angeles-times/feed/ 1 www.weswarm.com: a new website about swarm intelligence??? http://www.simongarnier.com/www-weswarm-com-a-new-website-about-swarm-intelligence/ http://www.simongarnier.com/www-weswarm-com-a-new-website-about-swarm-intelligence/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:09:08 +0000 Simon Garnier http://www.simongarnier.com/?p=431 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. 

]]> http://www.simongarnier.com/www-weswarm-com-a-new-website-about-swarm-intelligence/feed/ 0 Taming the Herd Mentality – Interview of Iain Couzin on BigThink.com http://www.simongarnier.com/taming-the-herd-mentality-interview-of-iain-couzin-on-bigthink-com/ http://www.simongarnier.com/taming-the-herd-mentality-interview-of-iain-couzin-on-bigthink-com/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:02:30 +0000 Simon Garnier http://www.simongarnier.com/?p=383 Iain Couzin, Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and specialist of collective behaviours, recently answered to this interview on the website BigThink.com. The interview mixes questions about human crowds, locust plague, video games and more. The interview is available here, or can be seen below:

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A short post to welcome a new blog about collective behavior: "Collective Behavior: From Cells to Animals to Us". This brand new website is run by three young leaders in the field of collective behavior: David Sumpter, Audrey Dussutour and Iain Couzin. This blog aims at sharing news, ideas and information about research on behavior of groups, and seems to be opened to external contributions. I wish all the best to this initiative.

In the same spirit, I launched some times ago an online bibliography database about collective behaviors (called Swarm References), and I'd like to call for some help in order to fill this database as fast as possible and to keep it up to date. If you're interested, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

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