Swarms in nature, including birds, social insects and cells, coordinate in huge numbers to achieve common goals. Their behaviours are self-organised, emerging from the interactions of every agent with their local environment. For the past 20 years, swarm robotics has taken inspiration from nature to make large numbers of robots work together to achieve common goals. With progress in swarm hardware and AI, the field is now ready to translate these swarms from laboratory to application. Join swarm engineering expert Sabine Hauert as she explores the mechanisms to make 'swarms for people', in applications ranging from nanomedicine to environmental monitoring and logistics. The next step is to make swarms easy to design, deploy, monitor, control, and validate towards making swarms that are, and should, be trusted. --- Sabine Hauert is Professor of Swarm Engineering at University of Bristol. She leads a team of 20 researchers working on making swarms for people, and across scales, from nanorobots for cancer treatment, to larger robots for environmental monitoring, or logistics (https://hauertlab.com/). Before joining the University of Bristol, Sabine engineered swarms of nanoparticles for cancer treatment at MIT, and deployed swarms of flying robots at EPFL. She is on the board of directors of the Open Source Robotics Foundation and is Executive Trustee of non-profits robohub.org and aihub.org, which connect the robotics and AI communities to the public.Watch at: www.youtube.com
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar March 28, 2025 Andreas Malikopoulos (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University) Read the full article at: vimeo.com Via Hiroki Sayama 
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar February 26, 2025 Shu-ichi Kinoshita (Mathematical Engineering, Musashino University, Japan / CoCo Visiting Scholar) Watch at: vimeo.com Via Hiroki Sayama
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Stephen Wolfram leads an interactive discussion about his recent writing on complexity, and on biological evolution. Read the full article at: www.youtube.com
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Emergence is one of the most fascinating and challenging aspects of complex systems, being also a controversial topic featuring long-standing debates and disagreements. In this talk I’ll introduce a pragmatic and pluralistic stance towards emergence that focusing on facilitating practical methods to establish falsifiable hypotheses and procedures to verify them. This approach will be illustrated by exploring two distinct but complementary operationalisations of emergence: (i) self-contained levels of description and (ii) synergistic interactions between constituents. The talk will review some particle examples, and highlight open questions and directions of future work. Watch at: www.youtube.com
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar November 20, 2024 Kimberly Glass (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School) "Challenges and Opportunities for Biological Network Inference" Watch at: vimeo.com Via Hiroki Sayama
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With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine learning and massive datasets. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with statistician Emmanuel Candès about black boxes, uncertainty and the power of inductive reasoning. Read the full article at: www.quantamagazine.org
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar Read the full article at: vimeo.com Via Hiroki Sayama
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Which is more intelligent, ChatGPT or a 3-year old? Of course this depends on what we mean by "intelligence." A modern LLM is certainly able to answer all sorts of questions that require knowledge far past the capacity of a 3-year old, and even to perform synthetic tasks that seem remarkable to many human grown-ups. But is that really intelligence? François Chollet argues that it is not, and that LLMs are not ever going to be truly "intelligent" in the usual sense -- although other approaches to AI might get there. Listen at: www.preposterousuniverse.com
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In this episode, we examine how the course of human history has shaped our scientific knowledge, why the physics community prioritizes some questions over others, and why progress in complex systems research is especially difficult. Academia continues to operate within set boundaries and students are taught certain concepts as fundamental and to skirt others completely. However, the history of science demonstrates that such concepts aren’t always set in stone. It’s possible that blowing open the “shackles of reality,” such as redefining the concept of life itself, and reprioritizing the problems that scientists want to tackle, might help scientists make more progress in this very difficult world of complexity research. Listen at: complexity.simplecast.com
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Welcome to the first episode of the What ALife! Podcast! In this episode, I speak with Hiroki Sayama - Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, and the Director of the Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo), at Binghamton University (USA) - about all things cellular automata (CA): what they are, where they came from, what they are useful for; as well as his own ground-breaking work in CA systems in the late 90s. We also talk about continuous CA, and what the future of CA might look like. Listen at: soundcloud.com
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar February 7, 2024 Pedro Márquez-Zacarías (Santa Fe Institute) Watch at: vimeo.com
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Living systems are in constant motion, from the inner workings of our cells to the synchronized movements of bird flocks. What sets these systems apart is that they are powered by tiny, energy-consuming components that generate their own movement and forces. In this talk, I’ll uncover the hidden rules that govern this dynamic behavior and explore how breaking certain physical symmetries, like the familiar flow of time, allows life to organize itself in unexpected ways. I will show how these discoveries help us understand the intricate patterns inside cells, reveal surprising new properties of living materials, and offer a fresh perspective on the physics that shapes the natural world around us. Watch at: www.youtube.com
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April 9, 2025 6:36 AM
I sistemi viventi sono in continuo movimento, dai meccanismi interni delle nostre cellule ai movimenti sincronizzati degli stormi di uccelli. Ciò che distingue questi sistemi è il fatto di essere alimentati da minuscoli componenti che consumano energia e generano autonomamente il proprio movimento e le proprie forze. In questa conferenza, svelerò le regole nascoste che governano questo comportamento dinamico ed esplorerò come la rottura di alcune simmetrie fisiche, come il familiare flusso del tempo, permetta alla vita di organizzarsi in modi inaspettati. Mostrerò come queste scoperte ci aiutino a comprendere gli intricati schemi all'interno delle cellule, rivelino nuove e sorprendenti proprietà dei materiali viventi e offriranno una nuova prospettiva sulla fisica che plasma il mondo naturale che ci circonda.
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One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into what drove the transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms. Listen or read at: www.quantamagazine.org
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Prof. Dirk Brockmann is founding Director of the Center Synergy of Systems (Synosys) and Chair of Biology of Complex Systems at TUD Dresden University of Technology. In his inaugural lecture, he discusses the science of complexity, how anti-disciplinary perspectives, the integration of social sciences and natural sciences can help us understand complex phenomena such as the dynamics of pandemic. Read the full article at: www.youtube.com
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Il Prof. Dirk Brockmann è direttore fondatore del Center Synergy of Systems (Synosys) e titolare della cattedra di Biologia dei Sistemi Complessi presso la TUD Dresden University of Technology. Nella sua lezione inaugurale, discuterà della scienza della complessità e di come le prospettive interdisciplinari e l'integrazione tra scienze sociali e scienze naturali potranno aiutarci a comprendere fenomeni complessi come le dinamiche di una pandemia.
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Rising costs of living and growing debt are leaving individuals and the economy under immense strain. Complexity science reveals how structural shifts in the 1980s created a regime where ideas like trickle-down economics no longer work—but were helpful in addressing the challenges of that time. These policies now drive rising consumer debt, inequality, and economic instability. Read the full article at: www.youtube.com
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The results of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election will send shockwaves through political, social, and economic systems, impacting and exposing deep vulnerabilities in society and governance structures worldwide. What does Complexity Science reveal about the dynamics driving these outcomes, their causes, and broader implications? Read the full article at: www.youtube.com
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar September 27, 2024 Nelson Fernández (University of Pamplona, Colombia / CoCo Visiting Scholar) Watch at: vimeo.com Via Hiroki Sayama
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How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven Strogatz explore the deep foundations of the scientific process. Read the full article at: www.quantamagazine.org
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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar April 3, 2024 Thomas Varley (Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont) "Stability, Integration, and Higher-Order Interactions in Complex Systems" Watch at: vimeo.com Via Hiroki Sayama
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Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. In these chaotic assemblies, order somehow emerges. Collective behaviors differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies that only recently became available, researchers have been able to study these patterns of collective animal behavior more closely than ever before. These new insights are unlocking some of the secret fitness advantages of living as part of a group rather than as an individual. The improved understanding of swarming pests such as locusts could also help to protect global food security. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews the evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin about how and why animals exhibit collective behaviors, and the secret advantages that arise from them. Listen at: play.prx.org
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April 1, 2024 5:18 AM
Gli uccelli si affollano. Sciame di locuste. Scuola di pesce. In queste assemblee caotiche, in qualche modo l’ordine emerge. I comportamenti collettivi differiscono nei dettagli da una specie all’altra, ma aderiscono in gran parte ai principi del movimento collettivo che i fisici hanno elaborato nel corso dei secoli. Ora, utilizzando tecnologie rese disponibili solo di recente, i ricercatori sono stati in grado di studiare questi modelli di comportamento animale collettivo più da vicino che mai. Queste nuove intuizioni stanno svelando alcuni dei vantaggi segreti del vivere come parte di un gruppo piuttosto che come individuo. Una migliore comprensione degli sciami di parassiti come le locuste potrebbe anche aiutare a proteggere la sicurezza alimentare globale. In questo episodio, il co-conduttore Steven Strogatz intervista l'ecologista evoluzionista Iain Couzin su come e perché gli animali mostrano comportamenti collettivi e sui vantaggi segreti che ne derivano.
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Join philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark as he challenges our conventional understanding of the mind's interaction with the world. Watch at: www.youtube.com
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