The mathematics of social insects

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Workshop theme

This two day meeting will bring together researchers in the social insect community and mathematicians with an interest in the problem of relating individual to collective behaviour in biology. The meeting will focus on the biological questions which arise in the organisation of insect societies, with talks on specific experimental systems. The invited speakers will be biologists who have worked on such systems. There will also be talks on the mathematical techniques that have been applied to understanding social insects.

Timetable

Friday 7th December 2001
09:00 to 09:45	Registration	Room 1
09:45 to 10:00	Welcome and introduction	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Nigel Franks University of Bristol From simple rules of thumb to collective intelligence	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee and Registration	Room 1
11:30 to 12:30	Guy Theraulaz Some aspects of morphogenesis in social insects	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at the Newton Institute	Room 1
13:30 to 14:00	Poster Viewing	Room 1
14:00 to 14:30	Stephen Pratt Princeton University From individual to collective behaviour in nest site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis	Room 1
14:30 to 14:50	Tucker Balch Carnegie Mellon University Automated observation and modelling of social insect colonies	Room 1
14:50 to 15:10	Stephen Martin University of Sheffield A graphic computer model which generates realistic brood patterns found in social hornet (Vespa) colonies despite using simple rules	Room 1
15:10 to 15:30	Nest's morphongenesis resulting from fingering	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	IUSSI AGM	Room 1
15:30 to 16:30	Poster viewing and Tea	Discussion Room
16:30 to 17:30	Walter Tschinkel Florida State University Ant nest architecture: a record of collective action	Room 1
17:30 to 18:30	Wine Reception	Room 1

Saturday 8th December 2001
09:00 to 10:00	Nick Britton University of Bath Do social insects self-organise?	Room 1
10:00 to 10:20	Mary Myerscough University of Sydney Are individual differences important in colony-wide organisation in honey bees	Room 1
10:20 to 10:42	Carl Anderson Multilevel organisation of insect societies: the need to identify and model the organs and tissues of superorganisms	Room 1
10:40 to 11:00	Random walk models of worker sorting in ant colonies	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	Room 1
11:30 to 12:00	Emma Despland University of Oxford Small-scale vegetation patterns, individual behaviour and swarm formation in the desert locuts	Room 1
12:00 to 12:20	Stéphanie Depickère Université Libre de Bruxelles Gregariousness and the division of labour in ant societies	Room 1
12:20 to 12:40	Jay Denny University of Bristol Colony size, polydomy, production and the division of labour in colonies of the ant Leptothorax albipennis	Room 1
12:40 to 13:00	Madeleine Beekman University of Sydney Clean bees: modelling hygenic behaviour in honey bees	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at the Newton Institute	Room 1
14:00 to 15:00	Thomas Seeley Cornell University Choosing a new home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm make a unanimous decision	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Ant colony optimization for difficult optimization problems	Room 1
16:00 to 16:20	Martin Middendorf Collective optimization: the artificial ants way	Room 1
16:20 to 16:40	Iain Couzin University of Leeds The organisation of traffic on army ant trails	Room 1
16:40 to 17:00	``Anelosimus artificius" a virtual social spider to swarm the World- Wide-Web?	Room 1
17:00 to 17:15	Francis Ratnieks University of Sheffield Closing remarks	Room 1
17:15 to 00:00	To the Pub for refreshments	Room 1

Speakers

Carl Anderson
Tucker Balch Carnegie Mellon University
Madeleine Beekman University of Sydney
Nick Britton University of Bath
Iain Couzin University of Leeds
Jay Denny University of Bristol
Stéphanie Depickère Université Libre de Bruxelles
Emma Despland University of Oxford
Nigel Franks University of Bristol
Stephen Martin University of Sheffield
Martin Middendorf
Mary Myerscough University of Sydney
Stephen Pratt Princeton University
Francis Ratnieks University of Sheffield
Thomas Seeley Cornell University
Guy Theraulaz
Walter Tschinkel Florida State University

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