Collective Decision Making: From Neurons to Societies - Bios

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Organizers:

• Nigel Franks, University of Bristol

(Do Ants Make Comparisons)

• John H. Miller, Research Professor, SFI; Professor of Economics and Social Science, Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

• Tom Seeley, Cornell University

(Swarm Decision Making in House Hunting)

Participants:

• Nicholas Britton, University of Bath

(Pheromone Trails and Ant Foraging Decisions)

• Frank Bryan http://www.uvm.edu/~fbryan, University of Vermont

(Collective Law Making in the New England Town Meeting or Procedural Requirements of Democratic Deliberations)

• Aaron Clauset, SFI
• Jeremiah Cohen, Vanderbilt
• Iain Couzin, Princeton University

(Collective Motion and Decision Making in Animal Groups)

• Adrian DeFroment, Princeton
• Yael Katz, Princeton
• Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Unite d'Ecologie Sociale
• Doyne Farmer, SFI
• Nina Federoff, SFI & Penn State University
• Jessica Flack, SFI
• Deborah Gordon, SFI & Stanford University

(The Organization of Work in Ant Colonies R)

• David Krakauer, SFI
• Peter Miller, , National Geographic

(Applying basic concepts about collective intelligence to business and society for a popular audience)

• Cris Moore, SFI
• Carey Morewedge, Carnegie Mellon University

(Associative Bias and Intuitive Judgment)

• Michael Mauboussin, SFI & Legg Mason Capital Management
• Mark Newman, SFI & University of Michigan
• Danny Oppenheimer, Princeton University

(A Voting Agent Model of Individual Preferences)

• Scott Page, SFI & University of Michigan
• Kevin Passino, Ohio State University

(Swarm Cognition in Honey Bees)

• Ana Sendova-Franks, Bristol Institute of Technology - University of the West of England
• Jon Wilkins, SFI
• E.O. Wilson, Harvard University

(Superorganisms)

• Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University

(The Effect of Network Structure on Learning)