The IUSSI/NAS meets annually in conjunction with the Entomological Society of America Coming meetings are scheduled for: Montreal in 2000 and San Diego in 2001.
NEW INFORMATION: Follow this link to information and registration forms for the 2001 meeting of the IUSSI British Section : From Worker to Colony: Understanding the Organisation of Insect Societies.
This meeting aims to bring together social insect researchers and mathematicians with an interest in the problem of relating individual to collective behaviour in biology. It will focus on the biological questions that arise in the organisation of insect societies, with talks on specific
experimental systems and the mathematical techniques that have been applied in understanding them.Invited Speakers:
=================Nigel Franks (Bristol): From simple rules of thumb to collective intelligence
Thomas Seeley (Cornell): Choosing a new home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm make a unanimous decision
Guy Theraulaz (Toulouse): Some aspects of morphogenesis in social insects
Walter Tschinkel (Florida): Ant nest architecture: a record of collective action
Nick Britton (Bath): Do social insects self-organize?
Contributed Talks:
==================We are currently calling for contributed talks both on colony organisation and other aspects of social insect behaviour and biology. Of particular interest are talks that describe systems which are amenable to novel mathematical or statistical analysis. We would also be interested in talks on the application of ant-like algorithms to computer science problems. If you would like to talk at the meeting, please email or post a short abstract (less than 500 words) to the address below by the 31st of May 2001.
Poster Session:
===============An important component of this meeting will be a poster session. If you are a biologist with a specific problem, which you think could be addressed by mathematical modelling, then a poster might be the ideal format to present this problem. To present a poster at the meeting, please email or post a short abstract (less than 300 words) to the address below
by the 31st of October 2001.Registration:
=============Registration must be made in advance and costs £25 (£15 for students). The charge covers lunch and refreshments on both days, but not accommodation or dinner. Registration forms are available online and should be sent, along with payment, to:
David Sumpter Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute,
24-29 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK. email: sumpter@maths.ox.ac.ukbefore the 31st of October 2001
This meeting is financially supported by British Telecom and the IUSSI British section and is part of the Isaac Newton Institute programme on 'individual to populations in biological systems'
There is also an international congress of the IUSSI scheduled for July/August 2002 in Sapporo, Japan.
NEW INFORMATION: Follow this link to information and registration forms for the 2002 meeting in Sapporo, Japan.
IUSSI/NAS was in conjunction with the Entomological Society of America in Nashville, December 14-18, 1997. Link here to read the Minutes of this IUSSI/NAS Business meeting.