Pawel Romanczuk, “Modeling of flocking & swarming with stochastic agent-based models”

Abstract: Collective behavior, as exhibited by bird flocks, fish schools or insect swarms, is a fascinating example of self-organized behavior in biology. Mathematical models of flocking were key for the development of our current understanding on how complex complex group-level behaviors may emerge from simple local rules of interaction of close-by individuals. In this lecture I will provide a brief introduction into individual-based modeling of collective behavior from established so-called social force models to novel developments taking into account perceptual & cognitive constraints.

The Zoom Link will be sent the day before the lecture.