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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
SOE 2: Focus Session: Physics of Behavior (joint session SOE/DY)
Montag, 9. März 2026, 09:30–12:45, GÖR/0226
Organizers: Greg Stephens (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam), Pawel Romanczuk (HU Berlin)
Physics has made important contributions to the remarkable progress in characterizing the molecules, cells, and circuits that generate natural behavior. Yet our understanding of behavior at the scale of the whole organism and in ecological and social contexts remains significantly less advanced. Even in simpler organisms, natural behavior is complex, requiring new tools for measurement (often through novel imaging), analysis, and theoretical insight. The emerging field of the physics of behavior addresses this gap by seeking to quantitatively characterize complex behavior in naturalistic settings. This focus session will highlight recent advances at the intersection of physics, neuroscience, biology, and social sciences with contributions from both theorists and experimentalists.
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09:30 | SOE 2.1 | Hauptvortrag: Memory and equilibrium in collective animal behaviour — •Thierry Mora |
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10:00 | SOE 2.2 | Spin-Waves without Spin-Waves: A Case for Soliton Propagation in Starling Flocks — •Andrea Cavagna |
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10:15 | SOE 2.3 | Modelling filamentous fungal growth — •Pascal Klamser, Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros und Dirk Brockmann |
| 10:30 | 15 min. break | ||
| 10:45 | SOE 2.4 | The contribution has been withdrawn. | |
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11:00 | SOE 2.5 | Composite and combined games in evolutionary dynamics in finite populations — Henry Brooks, Suzannah Gebbett, and •Jens Christian Claussen |
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11:15 | SOE 2.6 | A reversal in agent preference reveals partial segregation in the Schelling model — •Maksim Prusakov and Dirk Brockmann |
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11:30 | SOE 2.7 | Emergence of power-laws and the uncertainty principle in human contact duration — •Jun Sun |
| 11:45 | 15 min. break | ||
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12:00 | SOE 2.8 | Wired differently: Individual-level Adaptive Belief Networks — •Peter Steiglechner, Victor Møller Poulsen, Mirta Galesic, and Henrik Olsson |
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12:15 | SOE 2.9 | Critical Transitions of Reinforcement Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas — •Balakrishna Prabhu B N and Wolfram Barfuss |
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12:30 | SOE 2.10 | Statistical mechanics of connected graphs in Scrabble — •Olivier Witteveen and Marianne Bauer |

