Organisers: Professor PK Maini (Oxford), Professor H Othmer (Minnesota), Professor TJ Pedley (Cambridge), Professor BD Sleeman (Leeds)

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences A Newton Institute Workshop The Mathematics of Social Insects 7 Dec - 8 Dec 2001 List of participants Timetable:

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Friday 7 December

09.00-09.45 Registration

09.45-10.00 Welcome and introduction

10.00-11.00 N Franks (Bristol)

From simple rules of thumb to collective intelligence  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee and Registration

11.30-12.30 G Theraulaz (Toulouse)

Some aspects of morphogenesis in social insects

12.30-13.30 Lunch at the Newton Institute

13.30-14.00 Poster Viewing

14.00-14.30 S Pratt (Princeton)

From individual to collective behaviour in nest site selection by the
ant Leptothorax albipennis  More info

14.30-14.50 T Balch (Georgia Tech)

Automated observation and modelling of social insect colonies  More info

14.50-15.10 S Martin (Sheffield)

A graphic computer model which generates realistic brood patterns
found in social hornet (Vespa) colonies despite using simple rules  More info

15.10-15.30 P Rasse (Brussels)

Nest's morphongenesis resulting from fingering  More info

15.30-16.30 Poster viewing and Tea

15.30-16.00 IUSSI AGM

16.30-17.30 W Tschinkel (Florida)

Ant nest architecture: a record of collective action  More info

17.30-18.30 Wine Reception

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Saturday 8 December

09.00-10.00 N Britton (Bath)

Do social insects self-organise?  More info

10.00-10.20 M Myerscough (Sydney)

Are individual differences important in colony-wide organisation in
honey bees  More info

10.20-10.42 C Anderson (Regensburg)

Multilevel organisation of insect societies: the need to identify and
model the organs and tissues of superorganisms  More info

10.40-11.00 A Sendova-Franks (West of England)

Random walk models of worker sorting in ant colonies  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.00 E Despland (Oxford)

Small-scale vegetation patterns, individual behaviour and swarm
formation in the desert locuts  More info

12.00-12.20 S Depickere (Brussels)

Gregariousness and the division of labour in ant societies  More info

12.20-12.40 J Denny (Bristol)

Colony size, polydomy, production and the division of labour in
colonies of the ant Leptothorax albipennis  More info

12.40-13.00 M Beekman (Sydney)

Clean bees: modelling hygenic behaviour in honey bees  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at the Newton Institute

14.00-15.00 T Seeley (Cornell)

Choosing a new home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm make a
unanimous decision  More info

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.00 M Dorigo (IRIDIA Universite Libre de Bruxelle)

Ant colony optimization for difficult optimization problems  More info

16.00-16.20 M Middendorf (Eichstatt)

Collective optimization: the artificial ants way  More info

16.20-16.40 I Couzin (Leeds)

The organisation of traffic on army ant trails  More info

16.40-17.00 F Saffre (BTexact Technologies)

``Anelosimus artificius" a virtual social spider to swarm the World-
Wide-Web?  More info

17.00-17.15 F Ratnieks (Sheffield)

Closing remarks

17.15- . To the Pub for refreshments

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