How to Survive a Stampede, NY Times features IPL local research

Post date: Nov 17, 2015 3:15:01 AM

Prof. Caesar A. Saloma and his research has recently been featured in a recent article in The New York Times "How to Survive a Stampede".

Excerpts:

"“Don’t just do what the person next to you does,” says Caesar Saloma, a physics professor at the University of the Philippines who studies the movement of mice escaping confined spaces. In some ways, mice stampede as humans do: Individuals blindly follow one another, clogging some exits and ignoring others. In July, as officials prepared for the Pope’s visit and an outdoor mass for upward of six million people, Saloma was asked to work on the crowd-control plan."

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/how-to-survive-a-stampede.html (accessed 17 November 2015)