Seminar series
Date
Thu, 19 Jun 2014
16:00
16:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Pierre Degond
Organisation
Imperial College London
We are interested in large systems of agents collectively looking for a
consensus (about e.g. their direction of motion, like in bird flocks). In
spite of the local character of the interactions (only a few neighbours are
involved), these systems often exhibit large scale coordinated structures.
The understanding of how this self-organization emerges at the large scale
is still poorly understood and offer fascinating challenges to the modelling
science. We will discuss a few of these issues on a selection of specific
examples.