Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report

Complexity is the study of unexpected order or phenomena which emerge from a collection of interacting objects. 1 There are many natural systems that have been studied with the complexity lens: earthquakes, neuronal activity, protein folding, forest fires. More recently, physicists interested in complexity have begun looking at insect swarms. This project developed a simple computational model of fly swarms to search for evidence of complexity. 1 Johnson, Neil F. (2009). Chapter 1: Two\u27s company, three is complexity. In Simply complexity: A clear guide to complexity theory. Oxford: Oneworld Publications