Program, “Natural Algorithms” Workshop

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Monday Nov.2

09:15-10:00 – Breakfast
10:00-10:30 – Devavrat Shah, “Belief Propagation and Combinatorial Optimization”
10:30-11:00 – Jorge Cortes, “Distributed wombling by robotic sensor networks”
11:00-11:30 – Break
11:30-12:00 – Leah Edelstein-Keshet,  “Group constraints on foraging” video
12:00-12:30 – Tanya Berger-Wolf, “Finding structure in dynamic social networks” video

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:30 – Magnus Egerstedt, “Cooperative Foraging Among Bottlenose Dolphins and Engineered Systems” video
2:30-3:00 – Julien Hendrickx, “Distributed deterministic computation of functions in anonymous networks” video
3:00-3:30 – Break
3:30-4:00 – Ali Jadbabaie, “From Consensus to Social Learning in Complex Networks” video
4:00-4:30 – Herbert G. Tanner, “Coordination in heterogeneous multi-agent teams: exploiting diversity” video

7:00 – Banquet (Palmer House)

Tuesday Nov.3

09:15-10:00 – Breakfast
10:00-10:30 – Ryan Lukeman, “Inferring individual rules from a field study of collective behaviour” video
10:30-11:00 – Naomi Leonard, “Robustness of collective decision dynamics for directed sensing topologies” video
11:00-11:30 – Break
11:30-12:00 – Joel Lebowitz, “Statistical Mechanics and Emergent Phenomena in Systems of Many Interacting Components” video
12:00-12:30 – A. Stephen Morse, “Convergence Rates for Deterministic Gossip Sequences” video

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:30 – John Tsitsiklis, “Distributed consensus and averaging” video
2:30-3:00 – Vijay Kumar, “Collective Behaviors for Micro Bio Robots” video
3:00-3:15 – Break
3:15-4:30 – Brief presentation (B. Chazelle), followed by panel discussion video of Bernard Chazelle’s presentation video of panel discussion