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Peter Smouse

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Rutgers University
Peter is a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University. His research interests are biometerics & population theory, spanning the fields of evolution and ecology.
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Eloy Revilla Sanchez

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Spanish National Research Council
Eloy is a professor in the Department of Applied Biology at the Spanish National Research Council. His research interests are theoretical, behavioural population and conservation biology.
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David Saltz

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests are wildlife conservation biology and management, mostly in the realm of spatial ecology, population dynamics, and behaviour.
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Ran Nathan

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ran is a professor in the Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Ronen Kadmon

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ronen is a professor in the Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Marcel Holyoak

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UC Davis
Marcel is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at University of California, Davis. His research interests are population and community ecology.
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Wayne Getz

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UC Berkeley
Wayne is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management at University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are mathematica ecology and population modeling.

Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism Movements

[RG #105] Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism Movements

September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2007

Organizer:

Ran Nathan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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We begin our research with the premise that movement is virtually a condition of life, as all living organisms move at some stage of their lives. There have been at least 25,000 papers published in the last decade on various aspects of movement, both in the ecological and allied biological literatures, but this field of study -- while extremely active, indeed growing -- still lacks a coherent focus. Previous attempts to provide this focus have moved the field along incrementally, but it can still be said that the literature consists of a voluminous collection of loosely related work, and the field is still defined more by what large numbers of people are doing individually rather than by any sense of a coherent field.

We aim to develop a coherent representation that captures the essential features of movement in terms of casual components, goals, information requirements and capacities, around which future studies could be organized and from which predictable consequences could be established for all sorts of organisms. This would be a launching pad for mathematical modeling, hypothesis generation, measurement and data analysis -- a coherent basis reaching from first principles to consequences, and allowing prediction and testing in real world situations. The four elements of the framework are the internal state of the organism, its movement and navigation mechanisms, and the external factors affecting the system, all resulting in the final movement behaviour and trajectory.

Once the framework has been developed, we can develop qualitative mathematical machinery that will allow us to simulate movement patterns under various explicit assumptions abot the four basic components of our conceptual model. If we can simulate under different scenarios, we can predict. If we can predict, we can compare prediction with observation, and we can test hypotheses about the model itself and our construction of it as being representative of reality.

 

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Sergiu Hart

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sergiu is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality, the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are game theory, economic theory, and rationality.

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Dean Foster

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University of Pennsylvania

Dean is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests are machine learning, game theory and variable selection.

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Elchanan Ben-Porath

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Elchanan is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality and the Department of Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are economic theory, especially game theory and information economics, and distributive justice.

Gad Freudenthal

Gad Freudenthal

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CNRS

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has written on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, mainly in the Middle Ages and in the eighteenth century, and has focused his research on Greek philosophies of matter.

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He is the editor of the journal Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

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