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SUMMARY:The statue in the stone: how dynamical systems discover patterns in
	 their environment
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Pavel Chvykov\, MIT Physics of Living Systems\, Engla
	nd group\nHosted by: Anushya Chandran\n\nPart of the Biophysics/Condensed M
	atter Seminar Series.\n\nI will discuss a general mechanism that can lead t
	o complex dynamical systems discovering and "adapting" to patterns in their
	 environment. Specifically\, we consider damped systems driven by external 
	forces with varying degree of correlation. Uncorrelated driving environment
	s knock our system around randomly\, acting like an additional hot thermal 
	bath. Patterned environments\, on the other hand\, can make it possible for
	 the system to find configurations that\, by matching their dynamics to dri
	ve patterns\, avoid being randomized and maintain their structure. Besides 
	being merely possible\, such "environment-matched" configurations are actua
	lly favored in the steady-state by virtue of their stability. I will illust
	rate our theoretical framework through several toy models\, and then show r
	esults of its application to a swarm-robotics experiment. In that context\,
	 emergence and control of the self-organized dynamics can provide a powerfu
	l design paradigm for collaborative swarm behavior.
LOCATION:SCI 328\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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