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What and Who
Secrets of the Slime Mold
Vincenzo Bonifaci
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik - D1
Talk
AG 1
AG Audience
English
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Date, Time and Location
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
15:00
45 Minutes
E1 4
D1 Rotunda
Saarbrücken
Abstract
A simple mathematical model has been proposed by biologists to describe the feedback mechanism used by the Physarum Polycephalum slime mold to adapt its tubular channels while foraging two food sources A and B. In this talk I will sketch a proof of the fact that, under this model, the mass of the mold will eventually converge to the shortest A-B path of the network that the mold lies on, independently of the structure of the network or of the initial mass distribution. This will be a whiteboard talk.
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Vincenzo Bonifaci, 04/19/2011 00:56
Vincenzo Bonifaci, 04/18/2011 13:18 -- Created document.
Vincenzo Bonifaci, 04/18/2011 13:18 -- Created document.