A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Inverse problems in statistical physics are motivated by the challenges of 'big data'in
different fields, in particular high-throughput experiments in biology. In inverse problems, the …

We review a general class of models for self-organized dynamics based on alignment. The
dynamics of such systems is governed solely by interactions among individuals or “agents,” …

Behavior is a unifying organismal process where genes, neural function, anatomy and
environment converge and interrelate. Here we review the current state and discuss the …

Anyone who has moved furniture together with friends will appreciate that cooperative
transport requires some non-trivial communication. Yet ants are adept at collectively moving …

The collective behaviors of animals, from schooling fish to packing wolves and flocking
birds, display plenty of fascinating phenomena that result from simple interaction rules …

The activity of a neural network is defined by patterns of spiking and silence from the
individual neurons. Because spikes are (relatively) sparse, patterns of activity with …

Groups of animals can perform highly coordinated collective behaviours that confer benefits
to the participating individuals by facilitating social information exchange and protection from …

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …

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