Understanding
the Dynamics of Foraging Bumblebees
One-day workshop supported by the QMUL Bridging the Gaps Initiative To be held on Friday, 10 July 2009 at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London |
11.00 - 11.30 |
Welcome: tea/coffee either in room 3.15 or in the Hub next door |
11.30 - 12.00 |
Tom Ings,
Queen Mary University of London Learning to escape robotic spiders: predator avoidance learning in bumblebees [slides of this talk] |
12.00 - 12.30 | Rainer
Klages, Queen Mary University of London Modeling the migration of foraging animals: a short review [slides of this talk] |
12.30 - 13.30 |
Lunch |
13.30 - 14.00 |
Friedrich
Lenz, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex
Systems, Dresden, Germany Characterizing the dynamics of foraging bumblebees |
14.00 - 14.30 | Aleksei
V. Chechkin, Institute for Theoretical Physics NSC KIPT,
Kharkov, Ukraine A short introduction to the theory of Levy flights [slides of this talk] |
14.30 - 15.00 | General discussion |
15.00 - 15.30 | Tea/coffee either in room 3.15 or in the Hub next door |