Swarmfest2011 Program

Swarmfest 2011 Schedule

Sunday, June 26

Morning Session

9:00-9:20 AM

Breakfast

9:20-9:30 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Gary An, President, Swarm Development Group

9:30-10:00 AM

Principles for Designing a Visual Programming Language to Support Integration of Agent-based-modeling in K-12 Science

Pratim Sengupta

Mind, Matter & Media Lab, Vanderbilt University

10:10-10:40 AM

TBD

Scott Christley

Department of Surgery, the University of Chicago

10:50-11:20 AM

Modeling Enzyme Induction

Glen Ropella

Tempus Dictum in conjunction with the University of California, San Francisco

11:30-12:00 AM

Agent-based modeling for biomedical dynamic knowledge representation

Gary An

Department of Surgery, the University of Chicago

12-1:30 PM

Lunch

Afternoon Session:

1:30-2:00 PM

The Emergence and Inevitability (or not) of Cooperation

Sergio Beraldo (1) and Matteo Morini (2)

(1) University of Napoli “Federico II” & ICER and (2) University of Torino

2:10-2:40 PM

Testing for Emergence

Aaron L Bramson

University of Toronto

2:50-3:20 PM

BrilliAnts: A comparative study of Ant Colony Optimizations on the Dynamic Travelling Salesman Problem

Peter Ahrens (1), Dustin Tauxe (1) and Stephanie Djidjev (2)

(1) Los Alamos High School and (2) La Cueva High School

New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Project

3:30-3:45

Break

3:45-4:15 PM

The North Pacific Gyre

Sean Colin-Ellerin and Sara Hartse

The Desert Academy

New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Project

4:25-4:45 PM

Group Discussion

7:00 PM

Dinner at the Blue Corn Cafe

Monday, June 27

Morning Session

8:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-9:30 AM

SLAPP and Aesop to run scripts of ABMs

Pietro Terna

Department of Economics and Public Finance, University of Torino, Italy

9:45-10:15 AM

Parallelizing SLAPP with 0MQ

Steven H. Rogers

10:30-10:45 AM

Break

10:45-11:15 AM

"Group Discussion: Other modeling subjects for SLAPP?

11:30-12:00 AM

Fathoming Fortune at Freedom

Joel Sandoval, Holly Campbell, Brion Willis, Chris Marroquin and SaraJade Chavez

Freedom High School

New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Project

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:00-1:30 PM

Active targeting in random porous medium by chemical swarm robots with secondary signalling

Peter Grancic and Frantisek Stepanek

Chemical Robotics Laboratory, ICT Prague, Dejvice, Czech Republic

1:45- 3:45 PM

Special Session on Economics and Ecology

1:45-2:15 PM

Overview of a new approach to economics"

Mirsad Hadzikadic

College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

2:15-2:45 PM

Modeling the transition from supply-driven ecological systems to demand-driven economic systems

Russ Abbott""

Department of Computer Science, California State University

2:45-3:15 PM

Ecology-based models of economic systems

Ted Carmichael

College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

3:15-3:45 PM

Panel Discussion

3:45-4:00 PM

Break

4:00-4:30 PM

TBD

Michael Arendall

Metrics Technology, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico

4:40-5:00 PM

Closing Remarks

7:30 PM

Dinner at La Fonda

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