Seminar: Governance Among Plants & Insects with Dr. Orit Peleg

​Dr. Orit Peleg seeks to understand the behavior of disordered living systems by merging tools from physics, biology, engineering, and computer science. At the University of Colorado Boulder, she runs the Peleg Lab which is an interdisciplinary group of researchers whose goal is to formulate and test phenomenological theories about natural signal design principles and their emergent spatiotemporal patterns.

​They focus on universal problems that most communication systems must solve, whether they are animate or inanimate: How should organisms choose an optimal signal modality? How should they spatiotemporally integrate signals? And how should they respond (communicate a message back, locomote, Etc.)? They explore these questions using model organisms, such as fireflies and honeybee swarms. Examples include fireflies who communicate over long distances using light signals, and bees who serve as signal amplifiers to propagate pheromone-based information about the queen’s location.

​Join us for a presentation from Dr. Peleg facilitated by Metagov Research Director Nathan Schneider!

​More about Metagov Seminar: The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

​​The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.