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Events for August 22, 2016
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Aug 22, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Lasch, PhD, Director, USC Alfred Mann Institute\
Talk Title: BME Industry
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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EE 598 Cyber-Physical Systems Seminar Series
Mon, Aug 22, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hana Koorehdavoudi , University of Southern California
Talk Title: Drawing Inspiration from Collective Motion in Nature
Abstract: Biological systems are frequently categorized as complex systems due to their capabilities of generating spatio-temporal structures from apparent random decisions. In spite of research on analyzing biological systems, we lack a quantifiable framework for measuring their complexity. To fill this gap, we develop a new paradigm to study a collective group of N agents moving and interacting in a three-dimensional space. Our paradigm helps to identify the spatio-temporal states of the motion of the group and their associated transition probabilities. This framework enables the estimation of the free energy landscape corresponding to the identified states. Based on the energy landscape, we quantify missing information, emergence, self-organization and complexity for a collective motion. We show that the collective motion of the group of agents evolves to reach the most probable state with relatively lowest energy level and lowest missing information compared to other possible states. Our analysis demonstrates that the natural group of animals exhibit a higher degree of emergence, self-organization and complexity over time. Consequently, this algorithm can be integrated into new frameworks to engineer collective motions to achieve certain degrees of emergence, self-organization and complexity.
Biography: Hana Koorehdavoudi is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. She received her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in 2010. Her research interests include cellular motility, biological swarm dynamics, applied mathematics to design and modeling of dense networks of bacteria with a potential application for therapeutic purposes (e.g. drug delivery in inaccessible regions of the human body).
Host: Paul Bogdan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
