In the past decade there has been considerable progress toward a “physics of behavior,” taming the complexity of animal movements in their natural contexts. Here we explore the next layers of complexity in songbirds, dolphins, and the general problem of animal navigation.

9:30 AM Bagels & Coffee

10:00 AM Animal Navigation in Uncertain Environments
Agnese Seminara, Institut de Physique de Nice

11:30 AM Coffee Break

12:00 PM Quantitative windows into the minds of dolphins
Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University

1:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM How birds sing: taking precise data, making precise theories, Part I
Ilya Nemenman & Samuel Sober, Emory University

4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM How birds sing, Part II
Ilya Nemenman & Samuel Sober, Emory University

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