{"id":10733,"date":"2018-11-23T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=10733"},"modified":"2018-11-27T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:46:08","slug":"yet-another-determinantal-point-process-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/23\/yet-another-determinantal-point-process-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another determinantal point process in nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/termites.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10734\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/termites.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This image is taken from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Current_Biology\">Current Biology<\/a> recent paper, see below. The original image comes form Google Earth and each black dot marks a small mound created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Termite\">termites<\/a> in a region of Brazil. This resembles amazingly to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Determinantal_point_process\">determinantal point process,<\/a>\u00a0such as the complex Ginibre ensemble and its circular law. Collective phenomenon and self-organized structure...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2018.09.061\"><em>A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds<\/em><br \/>\nby Stephen J. Martin, Roy R. Funch, Paul R. Hanson, Eun-Hye Yoo, Correspondence in Current Biology\u00a028(22) PR1292-R1293, november 19, 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/11\/brazil-termite-murundus-mounds-space-4000-years-old\/576160\/\"><em>For 4,000 Years, Termites Have Been Building Something Incredible in Brazil<\/em> by Ed Yong, November 19 2018, The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/sciences\/article\/2018\/11\/23\/decouverte-au-bresil-d-une-construction-de-termites-vaste-comme-la-grande-bretagne_5387634_1650684.html\"><em>Des termites ont construit une \u00ab structure \u00bb aussi vaste que la Grande-Bretagne<\/em>, 23 novembre 2018, Le Monde<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FlRz-Iqy-XQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is taken from a Current Biology recent paper, see below. The original image comes form Google Earth and each black dot marks a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/23\/yet-another-determinantal-point-process-in-nature\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet another determinantal point process in nature?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":114},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10733"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10782,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}