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	<title>Simon Garnier</title>
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	<description>Swarm behaviours in natural and artificial systems</description>
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		<title>Postdoctoral position in Human collective behaviour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A postdoctoral position in Human collective behavior is available&#160;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/postdoctoral-position-in-human-collective-behaviour/</link>
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		<title>ANTS 2012 &#8211; Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 12-14, 2012. Brussels, Belgium
Call for papers prepared on October 4, 2011.&#160;More details and up-to-date information at&#160;http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012.
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Important Dates
Submission deadline &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;March 2, 2012
Notification of acceptance &#160;&#160;&#160;May 3, 2012
Camera ready copy &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;May 17, 2012
Conference &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;September 12-14, 2012
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Scope of the Conference
Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the&#160;study of self-organizing processes both in nature and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/ants-2012-eighth-international-conference-on-swarm-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming book: &#8220;Social self-organization&#8221;, by Dirk Helbing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next year, Springer will publish the last book of Dirk Helbing, &#34;Social self-organization&#34;, 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.&#160;

What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/upcoming-book-social-self-organization-by-dirk-helbing/</link>
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		<title>Wired.com &#8211; Self-Assembling Mini-Robots Swim and Manipulate Objects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/wired-com-self-assembling-mini-robots-swim-and-manipulate-objects/</link>
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		<title>Swarm Intelligence and Self-Assembly course at University of Colorado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Dustin Reishus from the Correll lab at the University of Colorado will be teaching a course entitled &#34;Swarm Intelligence and Self-Assembly&#34; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/swarm-intelligence-and-self-assembly-course-at-university-of-colorado/</link>
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		<title>ECAL 2011, European Conference on Artificial Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#39;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/ecal-2011-european-conference-on-artificial-life/</link>
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		<title>How groups can find the right fit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, PLoS ONE published my last article co-authored with my good friend Alexandre Campo, his students Olivier D&#233;driche 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/how-groups-can-find-the-right-fit/</link>
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		<title>Army ant week at myrmecos.net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#39;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/army-ant-week-at-myrmecos-net/</link>
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		<title>International Conference on Swarm Intelligence 2011 &#8211; Call for contributions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.&#160;
Optimization techniques in dynamic, multi-objective, constrained environments.&#160;
Grid and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/international-conference-on-swarm-intelligence-2011-call-for-contributions/</link>
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		<title>Postdoctoral position available &#8211; Physics of Collective Animal Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Collective Dynamics of Swarming Systems&#8221;, funded by the National Science Foundation.
The proposed research will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simongarnier.com/postdoctoral-position-available-physics-of-collective-animal-behavior/</link>
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