Program

FITGD 2022 Program

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Monday, May 1

Time Session/Lecture info
08:45-09:15
Registration & Coffee
 
09:15-09:30
Opening remarks
 
09:30-11:00
Session 1
Chairperson: Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science 
09:30-10:00
Rafal Bogacz, University of Oxford
Decisions by a group of neural populations in the striatum
10:00-10:30
Noga Zilkha, Weizmann Institute of Science
Sex-dependent control of pheromones on social organization and individuality within groups of wild house mice
10:30-11:00
Moti Fridman, Bar-Ilan University
Synchronization of human networks in frustrated situations
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00
Session 2
Chairperson: Yossi Yovel, Tel-Aviv University  
11:30-11:35
Short Talk- 1, Lior Baltiansky, Weizmann Institute of Science
Externalizing decisions from individual brains to their physical environment in ant foraging regulation
11:35-11:40
Short Talk- 2, Palina Bartashevich, Humboldt University of Berlin
Fountain effect as a collective anti-predator escape in fish schools
11:40-11:45
Short Talk- 3, Anastasia Bizyaeva, University of Washington
Nonlinear dynamics of collective decision-making on multiple options
11:45-11:50
Short Talk- 4, Atanu Chatterjee, Weizmann Institute of Science
When the Going Gets Tough: How External Perturbations Affect Collective Decision-Making during Cooperative Transport
11:50-11:55
Short Talk- 5, Nicolas Coucke, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Spatially Embedded Collective Decision Making by Human Groups
12:00-12:30
Yasmine Meroz, Tel-Aviv University
Tropisms as a window on plant computational processes
12:30-13:00
Anna Dornhaus, University of Arizona
Using empirical and modeling data to verify (or reject) our ideas about the benefits of collective organization
12:50-14:00
Lunch
 
14:00-15:00
Session 3
Chairperson: Ofer Feinerman, Weizmann Institute of Science 
14:00-14:30
Naomi Leonard, Princeton University
Multiagent decision-making dynamics with deadlock breaking and tunable sensitivity
14:30-15:00
Lilach Avitan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Choosing its battles: Better handling the complexity of the visual field as a basis for hunting performance improvement in the developing larval zebrafish
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
 
15:30-17:00
Session 4
Chairperson: Yonatan Loewenstein, The Hebrew University 
15:30-15:35
Short Talk- 6, Ehud Fonio, Weizmann Institute of Science
Decentralized secondary obstacle-clearing behavior by the Longhorn crazy ant.
15:35-15:40
Short Talk- 7, Moshe Glickman, University College London
How human-AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements
15:40-15:45
Short Talk- 8, Tzvi Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Inhibitory signaling during collective decision-making in brains and social insects
15:45-15:50
Short Talk- 9, Amir Haluts, Weizmann Institute of Science
Modeling animal contests based on spatio-temporal dynamics
15:50-15:55
Short Talk- 10, Conor Heins, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Collective behavior from surprise minimization
16:00-16:30
Keren Haroush, Stanford University
Neural circuits of joint decision making in primates
16:30-17:00
Ifat Levy, Yale University
Individual differences in decision-making under uncertainty
17:00-18:30
Poster Session & Group photo
 

Deadline for poster abstract submission:
February 20, 2023

Organizing Committee

Iain Couzin
Max-Planck Institute, Germany

  • Nir Gov
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Ofer Feinerman
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Yonatan Loewenstein
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Yossi Yovel
    Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Sponsors

  • The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange
  • Janet and David Polak Crossroads of Science Fund
  • Israel Science Foundation
  • Faculty of Biology
  • Department of Chemical and Biological Physics
  • Department of Brain Sciences
  • Tel-Aviv University
  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Lior Drori
lior.drori@weizmann.ac.il