The Science of Flocks and Swarms - Livestream

Flocks of birds, schools of fish, and swarms of ants are all around us. We have all seen and marveled at them. But why and how do they form? This session will introduce participants to the simple universal rules that give rise to collective flocking behavior and explore them with hands-on computer simulations.

Speaker: Ajay Gopinathan, UC Merced

Intended for 4th and 5th grade students