Can marching ants, schooling fish, and herding wildebeests teach us something about the morning commute? In a unique melding of mathematics, physics, and behavioral science, this program examines the creative and sometimes counterintuitive solutions to one of the modern world’s most annoying problems.

Participants:

• Iain Couzin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.
• Mitchell Joachim, faculty, Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. Designer of 2007 Time Magazine “Best Invention of the Year," with stackable "city car."
• Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst