Nicolas Perony: Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory
니콜라스 페로니: 강아지! 여러분의 주의를 끌었습니다, 복합성 이론에 관하여.
Nicolas Perony models the movement of animal groups to understand: what is the individual behavior that guides the behavior of the larger society? Full bio
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그것만의 역할이 있습니다.
create complicated machines.
assembled to grade the project.
교수님들이 오셨습니다.
species of European bats.
뇌가 굉장히 크거든요.
in the population structure.
very strict social hierarchy.
anything but random particles.
lot of people in the audience
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nicolas Perony - Animal scientistNicolas Perony models the movement of animal groups to understand: what is the individual behavior that guides the behavior of the larger society?
Why you should listen
Nicolas Perony started his career as a roboticist. But after one of his robots -- which was designed to follow a white line -- destroyed itself because of a lighting snafu on demo day, he realized that he was less interested in creating complicated robots and more interested in studying the complexity that already exists out there in the animal kingdom. He quickly changed course and is now a quantitative scientist at the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich, where he studies the structure and dynamics of animal societies.
Perony conducts his research by placing GPS collars on animals like Bechstein's bats and meerkats, and studying the spacial data of the group. He creates models of the movement over time to see patterns. He then tries to ascertain at the simple rules that individuals in the animal group seem to be following that, when done en masse, result in the larger flow. In other words, he looks at the underlying mechanics that lead to the collective movement of animal groups.
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