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The Stephens Group is pioneering a new field – the physics of behavior: from individual organisms to entire societies. The science of the living world is overwhelmingly focused on the microscopic: the structure of DNA, the machinery of cells that can convert energy and transports materials, or the pattern of electrical activity in our brains from which thoughts arise. Yet, all of these processes serve the greater evolutionary goals of the organism: to find food, avoid predators and reproduce. This is the behavioral scale, and despite it’s importance, our quantitative understanding of behavior is much less advanced. But how do we quantify the emergent dynamics of entire organisms? What principles characterize living movement? Research in our group addresses these fundamental questions with a modern biophysics approach and model systems ranging from the nematode C. elegans to zebrafish and honeybee collectives. We combine theoretical ideas from statistical physics, information theory and dynamical systems and work in close collaboration with scientists from Amsterdam and around the world to develop and analyze novel, quantitative experiments of organisms in natural motion.
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology | Okinawa, Japan | Collaborative research | 2012-04-01 - present
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Research Output 2008 2019
Adaptive, locally linear models of complex dynamics
Costa, A. C., Ahamed, T. & Stephens, G. J., 17 Jan 2019, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Adaptive, locally-linear models of complex dynamics (preprint)
Costa, A. C., Ahamed, T. & Stephens, G. J., 25 Jul 2018, In : arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.03933.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic
Exploiting ecology in drug pulse sequences in favour of population reduction
Bauer, M., Graf, I. R., Ngampruetikorn, V., Stephens, G. J. & Frey, E., Sep 2017, In : PLoS Computational Biology. 13, 9Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Towards dense object tracking in a 2D honeybee hive
Bozek, K., Hebert, L., Mikheyev, A. S. & Stephens, G. J., 22 Dec 2017, In : IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. p. 4185-4193Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Bias, belief, and consensus: Collective opinion formation on fluctuating networks
Ngampruetikorn, V. & Stephens, G. J., 18 Nov 2016, In : Physical Review E. 2016, 94, p. 052312Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review