Collective behavior in biological systems is a complex topic, to say the least. It runs wildly
across scales in both space and time, involving taxonomically vastly different organisms …

The study of systems with sustained energy uptake and dissipation at the scale of the
constituent particles is an area of central interest in nonequilibrium statistical physics …

The rise of the internet coupled with technological innovations such as smartphones have
generated massive volumes of geo-referenced data (big data) on human mobility. This has …

Modeling crowd motion is central to situations as diverse as risk prevention in mass events
and visual effects rendering in the motion picture industry. The difficulty of performing …

The spontaneous emergence of collective flows is a generic property of active fluids and
often leads to chaotic flow patterns characterised by swirls, jets, and topological disclinations …

Spontaneously flowing liquids have been successfully engineered from a variety of
biological and synthetic self-propelled units,,,,,,,,,–. Together with their orientational order …

The renormalization group is a key set of ideas and quantitative tools of statistical physics
that allow for the calculation of universal quantities that encompass the behaviour of different …

As the constituent particles of a flock are polar and in a driven state, their interactions must,
in general, be fore-aft asymmetric and nonreciprocal. Within a model that explicitly retains …

The living world is full of cohesive collectives that have evolved to move together with high
efficiency. Schools of fish or flocks of birds maintain their global direction despite significant …

This paper discussed the cooperative control problem for swarming systems in unknown
dynamic environment. The swarm agents are required to move in a completely distributed …