Jens Krause (HU Berlin) presents at the Kaffeklubben on the 23rd of January, 13:00 at DTU Aqua, Kavalergården 6, 2920 Charlottenlund: "Social Networks and Collective Behaviour".
Many group-living species exhibit complex and coordinated spatiotemporal patterns from the motion of locust swarms and fish schools to bird flocks, ungulate herds and human crowds. The common property of these seemingly unrelated biological phenomena is that of interindividual interaction, by which individuals can influence the behaviour of others. Individual-based models provide predictions regarding collective processes which we tested in a set of experiments that explore human crowd dynamics and fish schooling behaviour. In particular we designed a robotic fish that can be used to manipulate decision-making processes in live shoals of fish. Finally, I will discuss the phenomenon of swarm intelligence using examples from both humans and animals.