Scientific program
| Sunday, November 7th | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome reception in the institute's main building |
| Monday, November 8th | |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome and introduction to the workshop (Tamas Vicsek) |
| Chairperson: Christian Schmeiser | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Iain Couzin |
| Information transfer and the evolution of collective behavior | |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Sriram Ramaswamy |
| On the order of the flocking transition | |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Gonzalo de Polavieja |
| Collective patterns of decisions from individuals estimating the best spatial location | |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | Eric Bertin |
| Derivation and stability of hydrodynamic equations for self-propelled particles | |
| 11:55 - 12:20 | A. Jamie Wood |
| How perceived threat affects collective motion: Modelling speed distributions and their importance | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Hugues Chaté | |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Charlotte K. Hemelrijk |
| Aerial displays of thousands of starlings: Causation of flock shape and density | |
| 14:50 - 15:40 | Lutz Schimansky-Geier |
| Fluctuations in self-propelled particles | |
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Jan Haskovec |
| From individual to collective behaviour of coupled velocity jump processes: a locust example | |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | COLMOT10 Colloquium |
| Raymond E. Goldstein | |
| Microfluidics of cytoplasmic streaming | |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Poster Evening Session |
| Tuesday, November 9th | |
| Chairperson: Raymond E. Goldstein | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Mitsugu Matsushita |
| Colony formation in bacteria - collective movement of cells | |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Markus Bär |
| Pattern formation and collective motion of myxobacteria | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Christophe Deroulers |
| The phase diagram of migrating cells: Aggregation without attraction | |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Christina Surulescu |
| On some modeling approaches to cell dispersal | |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Sriram Ramaswamy | |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Inbal Hecht |
| From passive to active navigation: How can a cell find the way? | |
| 14:50 - 15:40 | Carl-Philipp Heisenberg |
| Cell movements during zebrafish gastrulation | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | Victor Luria |
| Genetic variability and decision-making in the assembly of sensory-motor circuits | |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Larissa Conradt |
| Collective decision making in animals | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Film & Animation |
| Wednesday, November 10th | |
| Chairperson: Iain Couzin | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Irene Giardina |
| Scale free correlations in bird flocks | |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Jacques Gautrais |
| Experimental identification of fish interactions in a tank predicts velocity-induced phase transition | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Kunal Bhattacharya |
| Collective decision making in cohesive flocks | |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Francesco Ginelli |
| Collective behavior in large animal groups | |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 13:50 | Leaving the institute for the excursion through Dresden's old city centre |
| 19:30 - | Conference dinner |
| Thursday, November 11th | |
| Chairperson: András Czirók | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | M Cristina Marchetti |
| Modeling active fluids: From microscopic to hydrodynamics | |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Ezequiel Albano |
| On the structural properties of networks formed upon swarming | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Toru Ohira |
| Chase and escape on group motion | |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Pawel Romanczuk |
| Onset of collective motion due to escape and pursuit - Theory and experiment | |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: M Cristina Marchetti | |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Christian Schmeiser |
| A possible mechanism for dendritic bacterial swarming without nutrition limitation | |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Nikolaos Vlassopoulos |
| How fast can virtual amoebae aggregate? Analysis for the optimal firing rate in an instance of the reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis aggregation scheme | |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Masayasu Mimura |
| Self-organized patterns in bacterial colonies | |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 19:00 | Poster Evening Session |
| Friday, November 12th | |
| Chairperson: Mitsugu Matsushita | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Hugues Chaté |
| Minimal models for collective motion | |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Fernando Peruani |
| Clustering, spatial patterns, and information spreading in self-propelled particle systems | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Andrea Perna |
| Formation of exploratory networks by Argentine ants: From individual behaviour to two-dimensional patterns | |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Fatihcan M. Atay |
| Consensus and synchronization on networks with delayed and time-varying links | |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Lutz Schimansky-Geier | |
| 13:30 - 14:40 | David J.T. Sumpter |
| Can we determine the rules of motion of fish? | |
| 14:40 - 15:30 | Andras Czirok |
| Collective cell movements in vivo, in vitro and in simulations | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Concluding remarks (Andreas Deutsch & Guy Theraulaz) |
For further information please e-mail to: colmot10@pks.mpg.de
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