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SUMMARY:Peter Sagirow Distinguished Lecture 2024 with Prof. Naomi E. Leonard
DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract:\n\nA wide range of animals live and move in groups. Many animals do better in groups than alone\nwhen, for example, foraging for food, migrating, and avoiding predators. A key to group success is\nsocial interaction. Less well understood is how a group, with no centralized control, is capable of\nthe fast and flexible decision-making required to carry out its tasks in an environment with\nuncertainty, variability, and dynamic change.\nI will discuss the fundamental importance of control theory in uncovering the mechanisms of\ngroup decision-making and collective intelligence.  Of central importance is the role of\nfeedback and nonlinearity in fast and flexible decision-making: how indecision can be broken as\nfast as it becomes costly, and how sensitivity to stimulus can be tuned as context and environment\nchange. I will discuss the significance and promise for the study and design of collective\nintelligence in nature and technology.\n\nBiography:\n\nNaomi Ehrich Leonard is Chair and Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace\nEngineering at Princeton University. She is associated faculty with the Program in Applied and\nComputational Mathematics and the Biophysics Graduate Program, and affiliated faculty with the\nPrinceton Neuroscience Institute. She is Founding Director of CreativeX, a Princeton\nengineering-and-the-arts collective, and Founding Editor of \nAnnual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Leonard received her B.S.E. in\nMechanical Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the\nUniversity of Maryland. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and\nSciences, and a Fellow of the ASME, IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM. Recent awards include the 2023 IEEE\nControl Systems Award and the 2024 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.\nLeonard's background includes feedback control theory, nonlinear dynamics, geometric mechanics,\nand robotics, where she has contributed to theory and application. She studies and designs complex,\ndynamical systems comprised of many interacting agents, such as animals, humans, and autonomous\nvehicles, that move, sense, and decide together. She develops analytically tractable mathematical\nmodels of collective dynamics that provide the systematic means to examine the role of feedback,\ninterconnection, and individual differences in the behavior, learning, and resilience of groups in\nchanging environments. Leonard’s collaborators have included researchers in oceanography, ecology,\nevolutionary biology, neuroscience, and political science, and artists.\n  
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LOCATION:Universität Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen , V 9.01, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569  Stuttgart 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.ist.uni-stuttgart.de/events/Peter-Sagirow-Distinguished-Lecture-2024-with-Prof.-Naomi-E.-Leonard/
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