Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries (2015)
Chapter: List of Collective Behavior Preconference Tutorials
List of Collective Behavior Preconference Tutorials
OVERVIEW
Tutorial Released: September 11, 2014
An Overview of Collective Behavior
Gene E. Robinson (NAS)
Director, Institute for Genomic Biology and Swanlund Chair of Entomology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CELLS
Tutorials Released: September 25, 2014
Cell Signals
DNA Learning Center
Experiments that Point to a New Understanding of Cancer
Half the Secret of the Cell Is outside the Cell
Mina J. Bissell (NAS/IOM)
Distinguished Scientist, Life Sciences Division
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nerve Cells, Neuronal Circuits, and the General Organization of the Brain
Charles F. Stevens (NAS)
Professor, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
MICROBES
Tutorials Released: September 25, 2014
How Bacteria Talk
Bacteria Communication via Quorum Sensing
Bonnie l. Bassler (NAS)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chair and Squibb Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
SOCIAL INSECTS
Tutorials Released: October 9, 2014
The Emergent Genius of Ant Colonies
Deborah Gordon
Professor, Department of Biology
Stanford University
The Real Life of Social Insects?
Bucknell University
Ant Whisperer
Edward O. Wilson (NAS)
University Research Professor Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Ants—Nature’s Secret Power
Bert Hoelldobler (NAS)
Professor, Zoology Emeritus
University of Wurzburg
Regents’ and Foundation Professor, School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Solving the Nature vs. Nurture Dilemma: Social Regulation of Behavior and Brain Gene Expression in Honey Bees
Gene E. Robinson (NAS)
Director, Institute for Genomic Biology
Swanlund Chair of Entomology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ANIMALS
Tutorials Released: October 9, 2014
Moral Behavior in Animals
The Feelings of Animals
Frans B.M. de Waal (NAS)
C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Psychology Department
Emory University
EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES OF COOPERATION
Tutorials Released: October 30, 2014
The New Power of Collaboration
Howard Rheingold
Digital Community Builder
Social Selection: A Primer
David C. Queller
Spencer T. Olin Professor, Department of Biology
Washington University in St. Louis
OPTMIZATION
Tutorials Released: October 30, 2014
Optimization: Genetic Algorithms
Optimization: Applications of Particle Swarm Optimization
Yahya Rahmat-Samii (NAE)
Northrop Grumman Professor, Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
ROBOTS/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Tutorials Released: November 5, 2014
Lessons from Robots about Being Human
Ken Goldberg
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in Robotics, Automatic and New Media
University of California, Berkeley
How Algorithms Shape our World
Kevin Slavin
Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
Benessee Career Development Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
HUMANS
Tutorials Released: November 5, 2014
Power of Networks
James Fowler
Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science, Department of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
The Hidden Influence of Social Networks
The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks of Social Influence
Nicholas A. Christakis (IOM)
Co-Director
The Yale Institute of Network Science, Yale University
Social Networks 101
David M.J. Lazer
Professor, Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences
Northeastern University
All tutorials are available at www.keckfutures.org.
