Online workshop on

ETHOLOGY
from individual to collective

Identification & Discovery

between 7-10 January 2025


YouTube recordings

Click the links below to check out the individual lectures delivered during the online workshop or click the full playlist link to watch all of them on YouTube.


Summer Fellowship Program

Click the links below to know about the Summer Fellowship Program of IIT Madras and the project list for students selected for the fellowship in the Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering. Through this funded fellowship program, students can develop their skills and work on state-of-the-art research problems in the field of ethology.

Usual deadline for fellowship:
Last week of March (please check the fellowship page).


Program

This 4 day workshop with hands-on demo & mini-projects is aimed at late undergraduate and early Masters students interested in behavioural science, computer vision, physical simulation and modeling.

Certificates will be provided for participants who successfully complete the mini-projects*.

* - Mini-projects need to be submitted on 17 January 2025

Format

2 lectures, 2 hand-on demo, Total 6 hours & mini-project

Topics

  • Computational Ethology

    1. Ethograms
    2. Classification techniques
    3. Markerless tracking
  • Agent-based and Continuum models

    1. Couzin & Social-force models
    2. Fokker-Planck dynamics
    3. ML based Equation discovery

Organizers


Contact us

Whether you have any concerns related to the workshop or want to know more details, please write to us.

Office

Alumni Avenue, Mechanical Sciences Block, IIT Madras, Chennai 36.

Phone Number

(044) 2257 4090/4086

Email Address

danny@smail.iitm.ac.in
sgangaprasath@smail.iitm.ac.in