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From Worker to Colony: Understanding the Organisation of Insect Societies

Winter Meeting of the IUSSI British section

December 7-8, 2001

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Applied Mathematics

Host: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Homepage: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~sumpter/newton.html, http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/ICB/icbw03.html
Email: info@newton.cam.ac.uk

Organizers: Dr David Sumpter (Oxford)

Description:
This two day meeting will bring together researchers in the social insect community and mathematicians with an interest in the problem of relating individual to collective behaviour in biology. The meeting will focus on the biological questions which arise in the organisation of insect societies, with talks on specific experimental systems. The invited speakers will be biologists who have worked on such systems. There will also be talks on the mathematical techniques that have been applied to understanding social insects.

Speakers: Nigel Franks (Bristol), Thomas Seeley (Cornell), Guy Theraulaz (Toulouse), Walter Tschinkel (Florida), Nick Britton (Bath).

Mail Address:

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K.
Tel.: +44 1223 335999, Fax.: +44 1223 330508

Date received: November 20, 2001


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