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SUMMARY:Mathematical aspects of collective dynamics and self-organization 
 - Pierre Degon (Imperial College)
DTSTART:20151008T140000Z
DTEND:20151008T150000Z
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CONTACT:Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb
DESCRIPTION:Most living or social systems consist of a large number of age
 nts\ninteracting through elementary rules involving only neighbouring agen
 ts. In\nspite of their simplicity\, these interactions drive the system to
 wards a\nself-organized coherent collective behavior. The emergence of col
 lective\ndynamics poses many mathematical challenges which will be outline
 d in this\ntalk. We will use the example of the Vicsek model (in which sel
 f-propelled\nparticles interact through local alignment) to illustrate som
 e of these\nchallenges and examples of applications to real biological or 
 social\nsystems. 
LOCATION:MR 14\, CMS
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