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SUMMARY:President's Office Hours\, Nov. 11
DESCRIPTION:We’ve got a great lineup of interdisciplinary speakers this y
 ear\, speaking on a range of topics in the quantitative life sciences\, fr
 om autonomous robots to cancer. Seminars rotate between Mudd\, Pomona and 
 Claremont McKenna campuses\, and start at 4 p.m.\, with snacks and convers
 ation starting at 3:45 p.m.\n\nMelanie Moses\, associate professor of comp
 uter science\, University of New Mexico\n\n"Emergence\, Cooperation\, and 
 Diversity: The Evolution of Natural and Engineered Swarms"\n\nNatural syst
 ems are immensely more adaptive\, flexible\, and robust than anything buil
 t by humans. For example\, right now trillions of T cells are crawling thr
 ough your tissues\, without a blueprint of your body or centralized instru
 ctions\, protecting you from viruses\, nascent tumors\, and their own unco
 ntrolled proliferation. Uncountable numbers of ants crawl across forest ca
 nopies\, desert sands and perhaps your kitchen counter. Each species uses 
 its own decentralized strategy that tailors a small repertoire of sensing\
 , navigation and communication behaviors to forage effectively in its envi
 ronment. While spectacularly successful decentralized collective behaviors
  have evolved in ant colonies and immune systems\, it remains a challenge 
 to engineer flexible and effective cooperative robotic systems that can fu
 nction in the real world. We emulate natural cooperative search\nbehaviors
  in robotic swarms that sense\, navigate and communicate to search effecti
 vely in previously unmapped environments. This work is the first to demons
 trate high-level robot swarm behaviors that can be automatically tuned to 
 produce efficient collective foraging strategies in varied and complex env
 ironments. The NASA Swarmathon engages students in this research in a swar
 m robotics challenge designed to demonstrate diverse approaches that robot
 ic swarms can use to explore for resources\, search for signs of life\, an
 d support human settlements on other planets.
LOCATION:Shanahan Center\, 320 E. Foothill Blvd.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\,
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