Schedule

09:45 - 11:00 Session I

9:45-9:50 Intro: Giulia De Masi and Donato Romano

9:50-10:20 Plenary: Thomas Schmikl, "Honeybees & Robots - An alliance for science and society", University of Graz, Austria 

10:20-10:45 Keynote: Antonio Celani, "Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning", ICTP Trieste, Italy

10:45-11:00 "Information theory unravels communication dynamics in a termites eusocial system", Gianluca Manduca, Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano (BioRobotics Institute, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Session II

11:30-12:00 Keynote: Cesare Stefanini, "Approaching complex systems via bioinspired robotics", MBZUAI University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

12:00-12:25 "Underwater Robotic Swarms: achievements, challenges and perspectives", Giulia De Masi (Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi)

12:25-12:40 "Harnessing swarm behaviors of active particles to build intelligent microrobots", Jyoti Sharma (Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera (Pisa), Italy )

12:40-12:55 "Substrate evaporation and local curvature drive the morphogenesis of termite nests", Giulio Facchini (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France), Alann Rathery (Roehampton University, London, UK), Stéphane Douady (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France), David Sillam-Dussès (Laboratoire d’Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France), Andrea Perna (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)

12:55-13:00 Concluding remarks: Giulia De Masi and Donato Romano

13:00 Lunch