Carlos Moura writes:  

      I've just finished my masters in Ecology at National Institute for research in Amazon (INPA), working with leaf litter ants (with emphasis on Pachycondyla and Gnamptogenys).
      I'm searching for somebody, that work with ants behavior to help me to achieve my plans for future work: applying the behavior of ants to solve computational problems.
      I make contact with Dr. Menezes at Florida Institute of Technology, asking
about the opportunity for me to be a contributor or even a PhD student at
his group.
      After I start do write my work plan [as he ask me to do], and after he told
me the difficulties do make a PhD with computational science I wonder if I
couldn't act in this field in a more efficiently manner, just staying in
touch with ants and learn more about behavioural traits and in a far future become a researcher in this field of stigmergy.
     I am wondering if anyone is interested in a "rookie" with a lot of curiosity and ideas about using the ant behavior, in special those from Amazon forest (army ants are my first option), to feed computational models.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

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Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura
+55 92 8182-4875
+55 92 3643-3196
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