Schedule

09:30 - 11:00 Session I

9:30-10:10 Plenary: Thomas Schmikl, "Honeybees & Robots - An alliance for science and society", University of Graz, Austria 

10:10-10:40 Keynote: Antonio Celani, "Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning", ICTP Trieste, Italy

10:40-10:55 "Cooperative mixing through collective feeding flows in S. lemnae", Antonio DeSimone (The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)

10:55-11:10 "Information theory unravels communication dynamics in a termites eusocial system", Gianluca Manduca, Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano (All the Authors are with The BioRobotics Institute, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy)

11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Session II

11:30-12:00 Keynote: Cesare Stefanini, "Approaching complex systems via bioinspired robotics", Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

12:10-12:25 "Underwater Robotic Swarms: achievements, challenges and perspectives", Saverio Iacoponi, Mohammed El Hanbaly, Andrea Infanti, Mohammed Tarnini, Federico Renda, Cesare Stefanini, Giulia De Masi

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

12:35-12:40 "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)

12:45-13:00 Panel, moderated by Donato Romano and Giulia De Masi

13:00 Lunch