Wenn ein Raubvogel kommt, weicht der Vogelschwarm aus – wie eine Wolke, elegant, ohne Kollisionen. Wie entscheidet jeder einzelne Vogel, wie er sich verhalten soll?
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize for Iain Couzin
Collective Behaviour, Konstanz am 15.03.2017
Germany’s most important research award is given to MPI-AB director
Outstanding research on the “rules of the swarm”: behavioural biologist Professor Iain Couzin is awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize, which is awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is the most important and most highly endowed research award in Germany. Read more
Iain Couzin among the world’s most influential scientist
Collective Behaviour, Konstanz am 15.03.2017
Collective behaviour researcher Prof Iain Couzin from the University of Konstanz has been included in the 2021 list of the “Global Highly Cited Researchers” for the fourth time in a row. Read more
Learning about system stability from ants
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Army ants collectively form complex, adaptable structures, without a need for communication
Why study of collective behaviour must be ‘crisis discipline’
Communications technologies have radically rewired our social interactions-and we know very little about what this means. An interdisciplinary team of researchers, from climate scientists to philosophers, make the case that the study of collective behavior must rise to a “crisis discipline,” just like medicine, conservation and climate science have done.
User-friendly AI for animal behaviour
Developed by PhD student Tristan Walter and Iain Couzin, the easy to use tool automatically tracks hundreds of individual animals.
TEDx Konstanz – Tickets online now
Kaleidoscope – Patterns in Nature and Society
TEDxKonstanz is an event organized by students and members of the University of Konstanz and the Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. This event will be held in March 2021 with the theme of “Kaleidoscope: Patterns in Nature and Society”. A kaleidoscope evokes the image of shifting patterns. It communicates the idea that patterns can arise from and be influenced by many things,
Konstanz scientist among the world’s most influential – 3 years in a row.
HCR hat trick for Iain Couzin
The annual list identifies scientists and social scientists whose work was most often cited in the last decade, underlining the influence and impact the researchers have had in their fields.
Couzin from the Max Planck institute of Animal Behavior (MPIAB), Department of Collective Behaviour, and also the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) and Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz
Funding for new Max Planck building in Konstanz
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior gets a new building at the University of Konstanz
Baden-Württemberg supports the establishment of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior at the University of Konstanz with 60 million euros. The facility is of enormous importance for the state government’s activities on climate protection and in the field of artificial intelligence.
With 58 million euros, Baden-Württemberg will support the establishment of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Biology on Lake Constance,
VCC building – 1 year later
Copyright: Iain Couzin
It’s been a year since the topping out ceremony for the new Centre for Visual Computing of Collectives (VCC) took place. Look at the timelapse of construction up until now. See video here