Noa Pinter-Wollman

  • Professor / UCLA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Computational and Systems Biology

Professor Noa Pinter-Wollman is part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Computational and Systems Biology departments at UCLA. She is an expert on ants and how individual members of a group affect the success of the group as a whole. Through her talk, we will learn about (and from) ants!

Recommended grade range for this talk: 3rd-5th

Sessions

  • Consider the ant and be wise – what can humans learn from ants?

    Ants form incredibly successful social systems. Over millions of years they have evolved the ability to construct intricate nests, cultivate crops, build bridges and rafts, and herd other animals; just to name a few exciting collective behaviors that ants accomplish. Inspired by ant behavior, humans have developed new computer algorithms, building architectures, and robot swarms. […]