From Insects to Interstates
If time permits I’ll be attending this entry at this year’s New York Science Festival (I’ve interviewed all three of the participants).
From Insects to Interstates
Friday, June 12, 2009, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM,
Kimmel Center, NYU
Can marching ants, schooling fish, and herding wildebeests teach us something about the morning commute? In a unique melding of mathematics, physics, and behavioral science, this program examines the creative and sometimes counterintuitive solutions to one of the modern world’s most annoying problems.
Participants
Iain Couzin
Iain Couzin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He studies the actions and interactions that give rise to collective behavior — from marching ants and swarming locusts to flocking birds and crowds of people — and what we might learn from successful swarming.
Mitchell Joachim
Mitchell Joachim is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. He is a partner in Terrefuge, a New York-based organization for philanthropic architecture and ecological design. His design of a compact, stackable “city car,” developed with the MIT Smart Cities Group, won the 2007 Time Magazine “Best Invention of the Year.”
Anna Nagurney
Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on congested transportation networks and their relationship within different systems ranging from the Internet to global supply chains to electric power generation and distribution networks.
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