{"613505":{"#nid":"613505","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DCL Seminar Series:  Naomi Leonard","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation will cover nonlinear dynamics for distributed decision-making that derive from principles of symmetry and bifurcation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Inspired by studies of animal groups, including house-hunting honeybees and schooling fish, the nonlinear dynamics describe a group of interacting agents that can manage flexibility as well as stability in response to a changing environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENaomi Ehrich Leonard is Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associated faculty in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;She is a MacArthur Fellow, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, SIAM, IEEE, IFAC, and ASME.\u0026nbsp; She received her BSE in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Her research is in control and dynamics with application to multi-agent systems, mobile sensor networks, collective animal behavior, and human decision dynamics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESymmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making"}],"uid":"34840","created_gmt":"2018-10-30 16:47:22","changed_gmt":"2018-12-12 15:58:54","author":"mamstutz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-01-25T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-01-25T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-01-25T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-01-25 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-01-25 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-01-25 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66191","name":"Decision and Control Lab (DCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}