Verge of Discovery
Verge of Discovery
Evgeniy Shishkin - interviews with the experts in science and technology fields.
022: Tracking the Collective Behavior of Sheep with Dr. Francesco Ginelli
29 minutes Posted Dec 6, 2015 at 9:36 pm.
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Dr. Francesco Ginelli’s work is all about collective effects.  The idea is that when you have a system composed of many units, certain collective properties of a system may emerge unexpectedly out of rather simple individual rules.  Dr. Ginelli discusses his work in the study of collective behavior in animal groups and sheep in particular.  He discusses the techniques of his study and what that means for our world as a whole.