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SUMMARY:Mark Fricker -- Adaptive Biological Networks: from slime to socie
 ty [IN PERSON]
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for this seminar by Mark Fricker (Oxford) as part of 
 the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West
  Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences in collaborati
 on with Liverpool Universities). \n\nTitle: Adaptive Biological Networks
 : from slime to society\n\nAbstract: Many different biological systems f
 orm physical transport networks to distribute resources throughout the o
 rganism\, including plant and animal vascular systems\, fungal mycelia a
 nd acellular slime mold plasmodia. There is an expectation that these ne
 tworks should exhibit some form of combinatorial optimisation between th
 e cost of making and maintaining the network\, the efficiency of transpo
 rt through the network\, it’s adaptability to fluctuations in the enviro
 nment\, and the resilience of the system to accidental damage or even ta
 rgeted attack. We also assume that the network has to dynamically self-o
 rganise both the architecture and flow routing pathways based on local r
 ules with no centralised control. This talk will present a number of the
  systems where we have combined empirical measurements with mathematical
  modelling and highlight our continued ignorance on how these beautifull
 y complex systems work.\n\nThe talk will be also be streamed via Teams\,
  please contact carl.whitfield@manchester.ac.uk or igor.chernyavsky@manc
 hester.ac.uk for the zoom link\, or sign up to the mailing list.\n\nTo s
 ubscribe to the mailing list for this event series\, please send an e-ma
 il with the phrase “subscribe math-lifesci-seminar” in the message body 
 to listserv@listserv.manchester.ac.uk
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LOCATION:1.009\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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