Heriot-Watt University, UK
Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems


Invited Talk

The use of trade-offs in nature: from surgical saws to the measurement of traits

Living things are constantly subject to trade-offs, which can manifest themselves through measurement of their traits, extracted by consulting observations of botanists or zoologists or can be a posteriori discovered as in the case of ovipositors of sawflies. This talk will present an overview my current research in the topic with examples related to ammonite shells, sawflies and the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP).