Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar
Modeling fish migration with interacting agents
Alethea Barbaro, UCLA

The question of what makes animals migrate and how they determine their route has been puzzled over by the scientific community since the time of the ancient Greeks. Since then, many theories have been proposed to explain the seasonal movement of species. In this talk, I will discuss how we use ideas from swarming together with environmental data to simulate and predict migration routes of a species of fish around Iceland. I will discuss scaling laws which we propose for such a type of interacting particle model in order to keep the global dynamics the same while varying the number of particles used in the simulation. I will also discuss continuing > work on introducing a bioenergetic component into the model in order > to tune the timing of the migration and make the particles act in a > more biologically realistic way.

Refreshments at 3:45

4:00pm–5:00pm, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 in LGRT 1634

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