Collective Behaviour

Workshop theme

Modelling collective group movement in animal ecology and cell biology has, over the years, followed two relatively parallel modelling paths. Most prevalent for the former are what one might define as discrete level models, whereby computational constructs are used to keep track of the spatio-temporal dynamics of each individual in a group. Problems in the latter, cell biology, have been tackled mostly by continuous models whereby the details of the individuals are neglected, in favour of a description of the entire population through, e.g. a density function. However, more recently hybrid agent-based/population models have gained increasing usage.

Despite the different needs and techniques that have pervaded collective movement modelling in each of these two fields, the time is ripe for knowledge exchange as imaging and tracking technologies are now providing spatiotemporal data at the individual level in both areas. Much of the modelling in this area is multiscale, so one of the key challenges to be addressed is how do hypotheses made on behaviour at the individual level (cell, animal, etc.) scale up to macroscopic behaviour (tissue, herd, etc.) and how robust is the macroscopic level behaviour to the details of the hypotheses made on microscopic (individual level) behaviour?

As the overall aim of the workshop is to create an overarching modelling framework with which to interpret common empirical features, the exchange of ideas and techniques from the different communities is an invaluable opportunity to move forward and at the same to delineate the boundaries of applicability of the different approaches in collective movement research.

The application is closed

Fees

Registration Only

Registration Package: £ 218
Student Registration Package: £ 168

The Registration Package includes admission to all seminars, lunches and refreshments on the days that lectures take place (Monday - Friday), wine reception and formal dinner, but does not include other meals or accommodation.

Formal Dinner Only

Formal Dinner: £ 60

Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. For all remaining participants who would like to attend, such as programme participants, the above charge will apply.

Accommodation

Unfortunately we do not have any accommodation to offer so all successful applicants will need to source their own accommodation.

Please see the Hotels Combined website for a list of local hotels and guesthouses.

Meals

Lunch

Lunch timings and location will be confirmed with timetable.

Evening Meal

Participants are free to make their own arrangements for dinner.

Formal Dinner

The Formal Dinner will be held at Christ's College on Wednesday 9th August at 19:30.

The event is a tradition for INI participants and gives you a chance to socialise with your colleagues on a more personal level. It is not one to miss!

Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event.

Timetable

Monday 7th August 2023
09:30 to 09:55	Registration	No Room Required
09:55 to 10:00	Milla Kibble Aalborg Universitet Welcome talk	No Room Required
10:00 to 11:00	Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour Spatiotemporal Computation in Nature	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Ruth Baker University of Oxford Efficient Bayesian inference for mechanistic modelling with high-throughput data	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Danai Papageorgiou University of Bristol Social structure, collective decision-making and responses to the rise of inequality in animal societies	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Nir Gov Weizmann Institute of Science Spin model of collective animal behavior: from whole group to a single animal and back	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Stuart Johnston University of Melbourne Modelling collective whale navigation and migration	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome wine reception and poster session	No Room Required

Tuesday 8th August 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Pierre Degond CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Swarming rigid bodies: geometry and topology	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Matthew Fricke The University of New Mexico Where Angels Fear to Tread: Extreme Environments and Extreme Passage Times	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee and group photo	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Katie Bentley The Francis Crick Institute cell shape impacts on collective patterning and migration	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Máté Nagy Eötvös Loránd University; Hungarian Academy of Science High-throughput collective animal behavior studies and their connections to artificial systems	Room 1
14:30 to 14:50	Linnéa Gyllingberg Uppsala University Using neuronal models to capture burst and glide motion and leadership in fish	Room 1
14:50 to 15:10	Arshed Nabeel Indian Institute of Science Data driven mesoscale modelling of collective movement	Room 1
15:10 to 15:30	Daniel Sankey University of Exeter Do "selfish-herd" mechanics select for coordinated collective motion?	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon tea	No Room Required

Wednesday 9th August 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Guy Theraulaz CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III Data-driven modeling of collective behavior in schooling fish	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Vishwesha Guttal Indian Institute of Science Collective motion in finite groups	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Alexandria Volkening Purdue University Modeling and topological data analysis of pattern formation in fish skin	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:00	Workshop Formal Dinner at Christ's College	No Room Required

Thursday 10th August 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Hans Othmer University of Minnesota From Signaling to Movement - Mathematical and Computational Problems in Cell Motility	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Fernando Peruani CY Cergy Paris University Imitation, democratic leadership, and collective intelligence in groups of sheep.	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Michelle Starz-Gaiano University of Maryland, Baltimore County The interplay of tissue architecture and cell signaling to coordinate collective cell migration dynamics	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Orit Peleg University of Colorado; Santa Fe Institute Emergent Spatiotemporal Communication Patterns in Insect Swarms	Room 1
14:30 to 14:50	Conor Heins Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Collective motion of active Bayesian agents	Room 1
14:50 to 15:10	Guillaume Falmagne Princeton University Investigating early warning signals and the structure and emergence of collaborations with a large-scale online experiment	Room 1
15:10 to 15:30	Kimberly Bowal Harvard University; Boston University Navigating two way traffic: Investigating the collective movement of ant trails	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Andreas Buttenschoen University of Massachusetts Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneities in a Mechano-Chemical Model of Collective Cell Migration	Room 1
16:00 to 17:00	William Martinson University of Oxford Multiscale modelling of collective behaviour: insights, challenges, and future perspectives	Room 1

Friday 11th August 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Pawel Romanczuk Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Importance of Adaptive Speed in Modeling Collective Movement	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Giulia Pisegna Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation Natural swarms in 3.99 dimension	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Robert Insall University of Glasgow Self-generated chemotactic gradients and receptor competition in collective migration	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Tommaso Lorenzi Politecnico di Torino Partial integro-differential equation models for the spatial spread and evolutionary dynamics of heterogeneous cell populations	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Luca Giuggioli University of Bristol What melting in solids can teach us about the formation of animal territories	Room 1

Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology

Organisers

Asja Jelic Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Philip K Maini
Kevin Painter Heriot-Watt University

Speakers

Ruth Baker University of Oxford
Katie Bentley The Francis Crick Institute
Kimberly Bowal Harvard University; Boston University
Andreas Buttenschoen University of Massachusetts
Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
Pierre Degond CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Guillaume Falmagne Princeton University
Matthew Fricke The University of New Mexico
Luca Giuggioli University of Bristol
Nir Gov Weizmann Institute of Science
Vishwesha Guttal Indian Institute of Science
Linnéa Gyllingberg Uppsala University
Conor Heins Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Robert Insall University of Glasgow
Stuart Johnston University of Melbourne
Tommaso Lorenzi Politecnico di Torino
William Martinson University of Oxford
Arshed Nabeel Indian Institute of Science
Máté Nagy Eötvös Loránd University; Hungarian Academy of Science
Hans Othmer University of Minnesota
Danai Papageorgiou University of Bristol
Orit Peleg University of Colorado; Santa Fe Institute
Fernando Peruani CY Cergy Paris University
Giulia Pisegna Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Pawel Romanczuk Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Daniel Sankey University of Exeter
Michelle Starz-Gaiano University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Guy Theraulaz CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Alexandria Volkening Purdue University

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Participants

Guillermo Abramson Instituto Balseiro; Centro atomico bariloche
Tomas Alarcon Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM); ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Ruth Baker University of Oxford
Katie Bentley The Francis Crick Institute
Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz University of Exeter
Kimberly Bowal Harvard University; Boston University
Alexander Browning University of Oxford
Maria Bruna University of Cambridge
Andreas Buttenschoen University of Massachusetts
Helen Byrne University of Oxford
Keith Chambers University of Oxford
Edward Codling University of Essex
Martina Conte Politecnico di Torino
Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
Rebecca Crossley University of Oxford
Pierre Degond CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Guillaume Falmagne Princeton University
Francis Felici None / Other
Alexander Fletcher University of Sheffield
Viktoria Freingruber Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
Matthew Fricke The University of New Mexico
Luca Giuggioli University of Bristol
Dan Gorbonos Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Nir Gov Weizmann Institute of Science
Shamik Gupta Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Vishwesha Guttal Indian Institute of Science
Linnéa Gyllingberg Uppsala University
Conor Heins Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Thomas Hillen University of Alberta
Robert Insall University of Glasgow
Asja Jelic Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Yi Jiang None / Other
Samuel Johnson University of Oxford
Stuart Johnston University of Melbourne
Toby Kay University of Bristol
Laila Kazimierski Centro atomico bariloche
John King University of Nottingham
Rainer Klages Queen Mary University of London
Paul Kulesa Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kajal Kumari Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Hernan Larralde Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Liang Li Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Yue Liu University of Oxford
Sarah A.M. Loos University of Cambridge
Tommaso Lorenzi Politecnico di Torino
Cristóbal López Universitat de les Illes Balears
Philip K Maini University of Oxford
Daniel Marris University of Bristol
William Martinson University of Oxford
Ralf Metzler Universität Potsdam
Juan Manuel Morales University of Glasgow
Arshed Nabeel Indian Institute of Science
Máté Nagy Eötvös Loránd University; Hungarian Academy of Science
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lital Oscar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hans Othmer University of Minnesota
Kevin Painter Politecnico di Torino
Danai Papageorgiou University of Bristol
August Paula Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Orit Peleg University of Colorado; Santa Fe Institute
Fernando Peruani CY Cergy Paris University
Giulia Pisegna Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Vit Piskovsky University of Oxford
Pawel Romanczuk Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jan Rombouts European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Emma Elisabetta Rusconi Clerici Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Daniel Sankey University of Exeter
Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol
Santiago Schnell University of Notre Dame
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge; Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Iain Souttar Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
Michelle Starz-Gaiano University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Daria Stepanova Labortatorio Subterraneo de Canfranc
Tracy Stepien University of Florida
Guy Theraulaz CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Alexandria Volkening Purdue University
Guangwei Wang Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yuan Yin University of Oxford
Haiyan Yu Chongqing University