Mathematical Biology Seminar Fred Adler University of Utah 3:05PM, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 LCB 219 The virtues of waiting, procrastinating and avoiding conflict Abstract: Ants are among the most successful organisms on earth, not least because they have created an impression of being hard-working automatons who put even graduate students to shame. I will show that ants might in fact succeed in part through waiting for other individuals to make the hard decisions and by avoiding stressful situations. Unfortunately, I have not quite gotten around to proving these results, but will give a sketch of how they could be demonstrated.