Focus Session: The Physics of Behavior

Presentations

• Computational and physiological mechanisms of sensory-motor processing

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 21, 2013, 2:30 PM – March 21, 2013, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Leslie Osborne

    • Neurobiology, U of Chicago

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• Dimentionality and behavior of swimming Zebrafish: ``The EigenFish''

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 3:06 PM – March 21, 2013, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Kiran Girdhar

    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Martin Gruebele

    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Yann Chemla

    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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• Controlling neural activity in \textit{Caenorhabditis elegans} to evoke chemotactic behavior

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 3:18 PM – March 21, 2013, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Askin Kocabas

    • Harvard University

  • Ching-Han Shen

    • Harvard University

  • Zengcai V. Guo

    • Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Sharad Ramanathan

    • Harvard University

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• Quantification of Nociceptive Escape Response in \textit{C.elegans}

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 3:30 PM – March 21, 2013, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Kawai Leung

    • Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  • Aylia Mohammadi

    • Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • William S. Ryu

    • Department of Physics and The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  • Ilya Nemenman

    • Department of Physics and Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    • Dept. of Physics \& Dept. Of Biology, Emory University
    • Emory University
    • Departments of Physics and Biology, Computational and Life Sciences Initiative, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    • Departments of Physics and Biology, Computational and Life Sciences Initiative, Emory University
    • Departments of Physics and Biology and Computational and Life Sciences Initiative, Emory University

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• Discovery of stereotypy through behavioral space embedding

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 3:42 PM – March 21, 2013, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Gordon Berman

    • Princeton University

  • Daniel Choi

    • Princeton University

  • William Bialek

    • Princeton University
    • Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
    • Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

  • Joshua Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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• Swarming in disordered environments

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 3:54 PM – March 21, 2013, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • University of California Merced
    • University of California, Merced

  • David A. Quint

    • University of California Merced

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• Physical limits to gradient sensing by swimming cells

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 4:06 PM – March 21, 2013, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Licata

    • University of Michigan-Dearborn

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• Measurement of Behavioral Evolution in Bacterial Populations

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 21, 2013, 4:18 PM – March 21, 2013, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Austin

    • Princeton University

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• Environmental engineering simplifies subterranean locomotion control

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 4:54 PM – March 21, 2013, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Nickolas Gravish

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Darya Monaenkova

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Michael A.D. Goodisman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel I. Goldman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Mosh pits and Circle pits: Collective motion at heavy metal concerts

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 5:06 PM – March 21, 2013, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Bierbaum

    • Cornell University

  • Jesse L. Silverberg

    • Cornell University

  • James Sethna

    • Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

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• Lift-off dynamics in a simple jumping robot

  ORAL

  March 21, 2013, 5:18 PM – March 21, 2013, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Aguilar

    • Georgia Tech

  • Alex Lesov

    • Georgia Tech

  • Kurt Wiesenfeld

    • Georgia Tech
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel Goldman

    • Georgia Tech
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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