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SUMMARY:Emergent Spatiotemporal Communication Patterns in Insect Swarms - 
 Orit Peleg (University of Colorado)
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DESCRIPTION:Our world is teeming with diverse organisms that rely on infor
 mation sharing as a crucial aspect of their survival and reproductive proc
 esses. How do organisms solve these communication challenges\, using only 
 natural resources? Ideas from physics\, mathematics\, and computer science
 \, such as energetic cost\, compression\, and detectability\, define unive
 rsal criteria that almost all communication systems must meet. We use inse
 ct swarms as a model system for identifying how organisms harness the dyna
 mics of communication signals\, perform spatiotemporal integration of thes
 e signals\, and propagate those signals to neighboring organisms. In this 
 talk\, I will focus on two types of communication in insect swarms: visual
  communication\, in which fireflies communicate over long distances using 
 light signals\, and chemical communication\, in which bees serve as signal
  amplifiers to propagate pheromone-based information about the queen's loc
 ation. Through a combination of behavioral assays and computational techni
 ques\, we develop and test model-driven hypotheses to gain a deeper unders
 tanding of these communication processes and contribute to the broader und
 erstanding of animal communication.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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