(2009) Program Committee Member, Swarm Cognition Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(2009) Senior Program Committee Member, 21st Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, USA.
(2004) Scientific
coordinator (with F. Schweitzer), international workshop on “Multi-agent
Systems – Swarms, Ecology and Society”, Max-Planck
Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.
(2004) Scientific
coordinator (with F. Schweitzer), international workshop on “Multi-agent
Systems – Swarms, Ecology and Society”, Max-Planck
Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.
(2003) Organiser
(with S. Simpson), International Workshop on Collective Behaviour,
University of Oxford.
(2003) Program
committee member, 2nd International Workshop on the mathematics
and Algorithms of Social Insects, Atlanta, Georgia.
Invited
International Presentations
(2009) Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Cornell University
(2009) National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council Meeting, Bethesda
(2009) Robotics Institute Seminar, Canegie Mellon University
(2009) Ecology Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
(2009) DARPA Microsystems Technology Office Symposium, San Jose
(2009) Emergent Communication Workshop, Princeton University
(2009) Collective Decision-Making: From Neurons to Societies, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe
(2008)
Keynote address, 3rd International Symposium of Formation Flying,
Missions and Technologies, European Space Agency
(2008) NIH Modeling Social Behavior Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
(2008) Workshop on Complex Systems, National Science Foundation, Washington DC.
(2008) Renaissance Technologies Colloquium, Long Island, NY.
(2008) Session Leader, Collective Animal Motion, Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics, Italy.
(2008) Annual Marsden Lecture, McGill University.
(2007) Divisional Seminar, Division of Biology, Caltech.
(2007)
Special Seminar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and
Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago.
(2007) Departmental Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, MIT.
(2007) Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston.
(2007) Plenary Speaker, BIOCOMP 2007, Italy.
(2007) Guest Lecturer, Workshop on Biology of Social Cognition, MRC / Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, Oxford.
(2007) Plenary Speaker, SIAM Dynamics, Snowbird, Utah.
(2007) AAAS Meeting, San Francisco.
(2007) Centre for Integrative Multiscale Modeling & Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech.
(2007) Department of Biosciences, Birmingham University, UK.
(2007) Plenary Speaker, Dynamics Days, Boston.
(2006) Symposium
on Social Facilitation, 3rd European Conference on Behavioural Biology,
Belfast..
(2006) Guest
lecturer, Workshop on Biology of Social Cognition, MRC / Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor.
(2006) Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston.
(2006) Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
(2006) Institute
for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.
(2006) Department
of Zoology, University of Oxford.
(2006) Cornell
Machines and Organisms Group, Cornell University.
(2006) Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University.
(2006) Max Planck
Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
(2006) Department
of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University.
(2006) Department
of Biology, Duke University.
(2005) Department
of Biology, Boston University.
(2005) School
of Biology, University of St. Andrews.
(2005) Dynamics
Days, Long Beach, California.
(2005) Gordon
Conference in Nonlinear Science, Colby College, Maini.
(2004) Organiser
and scientific coordinator (with F. Schweitzer) of international
workshop "Multi-agent systems: swarms, ecology and society"
as part of the thematic institute "From many-particle physics
to multi-agent systems" at the Max-Plank Institute for the
Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
(2004) “Swarm
theory”, International IdeaFestival, Lexington KY.
(2003) Organiser
(with S. Simpson) of "International workshop in Collective
Behaviour", University of Oxford, Oxford.
(2003) Interdisciplinary
workshop on Biological and Artificial Swarms, Institute for Pure
and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.
(2003) Self-organisation
and collective behaviour in animal groups. Center for Nonlinear
and Complex Systems, Duke University, USA.
(2003) Animal
grouping, Workshop on Cooperative Control, Block island, Rhode Island.
(2002) Self-organisation
and collective behaviour in fish. International workshop on the
current status and new directions for studying schooling and aggregation
behavior of pelagic fish, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Coconut
Island (Oahu, Hawaii).
(2002) Collective
animal behaviour, University of Bristol, UK
(2001) The
self-organisation of traffic on social insect trails. IUSSI European
Conference, Berlin, Germany.
(2001) The
social organisation of fish schools. XXVII International Ethological
Conference, Tubingen, Germany.
(2001) Flights
of Fluidity. Language of Water Conference (Science-Art), Bath, UK.
(1999) Collective
behaviour in social insects. International Congress of the IUSSI,
Adelaide, Australia.
(1998) Studying
ant behaviour using image analysis. TMR Network Conference: Chemical
Communication in Social Insects. Wuerzburg, Germany.
(1998) The
collective organisation of ant exploratory and foraging behaviour.
International Conference of the Centre of Mathematical Biology:
the Mathematical Biology of Pattern and Process. Bath, UK.
Through television,
radio and talks I actively promote and communicate science to
the public.
Television
series include BB1 Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions (2008, 2009), BBC1 Natural History Unit documentaries
“Predators” (2000), “Animal Camera” (2004),
“Massive Nature” (2004) and Channel 5's "Killer
Swarms" (2005).
Edge.org An Ants Have Algorithms: A Talk with Iain Couzin (2008)
New Scientist Feature Article The Hunger, the Horror (2008)
Der Spiegel Feature Article Schlauer im Swarm (2008)
New York Times, From Ants to People an Instinct to Swarm (2007)
BBC Wildlife
Magazine "Mob rules" (2004)
Granada TV
“Jungles” (2004).
BBC Radio
4 “Questions, questions” (2004).
Editor’s
Choice, “Avoiding gridlock” (2003), Science, 299,
19.
“Army
ants march to work with military efficiency” New Scientist,
Jan 2003.
“Army
ants obey traffic plan to avoid jams” National Geographic,
Feb 2003.
“Ants
offer lesson in urban living” The Guardian, Feb 2003.
News focus,
“Getting the behavior of social insects to compute”
(2002) Science, 295, 2357.
“Ant
traffic flow: raiding swarms with few rules avoid gridlock”,
Science News, Dec 2002.
BBC Radio
4 “The Today Programme”, “Of ants and men: traffic
flow”, Jan 2003.
Radio South
Africa “Future watch: ant traffic”, Jan 2003.
The Philadelphia
Inquirer, “An urge to organize” Interview, Jan 2003.
BBC Radio
4 “Frontiers: self-organisation” (7th May, 2003).
Sky Network
“Einstein TV” programme (November, 2001).
BBC Radio
4 “Nature: Natural Technology” (broadcast 14th and
15th May, 2001).
