Workshop - Animal Aggregations: 3-Dimensional Measurement and Modeling

加州大学洛杉矶分校将协调一个多学科研讨会，首次将生物学家、数学家、工程师、地质学家和研究三维模式形成和聚合模型的计算机动画专家聚集在一起。三维聚集的例子包括鱼群、昆虫群和晶体中的分子。聚集是大多数动物类群中普遍存在的行为现象。获得三维群体中个体的密度、凝聚力、间距和运动的知识一直受到这些群体视觉复杂性和缺乏分析它们之间相互作用的工具和技术的阻碍。三维聚合在一些非生物学学科中也引起了人们的兴趣。研讨会将汇聚三十位来自不同学科的研究人员和计算机专家，介绍他们各自的研究兴趣，并探讨是否可以利用其他领域的工具和技术来发展新的跨学科合作，以促进聚合的研究。研讨会的成果将被广泛使用，并为未来的研究奠定基础。

The University of California - Los Angeles will coordinate a multidisciplinary workshop to bring together, for the very first time, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, geologists, and computer animation specialists who work with three-dimensional pattern formation and models of aggregation. Examples of three-dimensional aggregations include fish schools, insect swarms, and molecules within a crystal. Aggregation is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon within most animal taxa. Gaining knowledge about density, cohesion, and spacing and movements of individuals within three-dimensional groups has been hampered by the visual complexity of these aggregations and the lack of tools and techniques to analyze interactions within them. Three- dimensional aggregations are also of interest in several non-biological disciplines as well. The workshop will bring together thirty investigators from various disci- plines and computer specialists to present information on their individual research interests, and to explore whether tools and techniques from other fields can be used to develop new cross-disciplinary collaboration to advance the study of aggregations. Results of the workshop will be broadly available and form the foundation for future research.