Seminar

Self-Organization in Living Networks

Date
Wed April 30th 2014, 12:00pm
Event Sponsor
Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences & Stanford Sociology Department
Location
SCANCOR Conference Room, 1st floor CERAS
Self-Organization in Living Networks

Deborah Gordon (Biology, Stanford)

Pizza will be provided.

Dr. Deborah Gordon studies collective behavior, including self-organization and dynamical networks, in ant colonies. Her applications of collective ant behavior to other network phenomena such as the Internet have been covered in Wired Magazine andNational Geographic. Attached are Dr. Gordon's publications on "The Ecology of Collective Behavior" (PLoS 2014) and "The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies" (Nature 2013).

Following Dr. Gordon's presentation, Jessica Santana (Sociology) will introduce her research on failure tolerance in organizational networks. The remainder of the time will be open for discussion.

Gordon's paper (2013)

Gordon's paper (2014)