Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

The dynamic patterns and coordinated motion displayed by groups of social animals are a
beautiful example of self-organization in natural far-from-equilibrium systems. Recent …

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 …

Active matter comprises individual units that convert energy into mechanical motion. In many
examples, such as bacterial systems and biofilament assays, constituent units are elongated …

Conservation areas around the world aim to help conserve animal biodiversity, but it is often
difficult to measure conservation success without detailed on-the-ground surveys. High …

Virtually all of the many active matter systems studied so far are made of units (biofilaments,
cells, colloidal particles, robots, animals, etc.) that move even when they are alone or …

Collective behaviour in biological systems presents theoretical challenges beyond the
borders of classical statistical physics. The lack of concepts such as scaling and …

Collective behavior is the outcome of a network of local interactions. Here, I consider
collective behavior as the result of algorithms that have evolved to operate in response to a …

Animal aggregations are visually striking, and as such are popular examples of collective
behavior in the natural world. Quantitatively demonstrating the collective nature of such …

The collective motion of groups of animals emerges from the net effect of the interactions
between individual members of the group. In many cases, such as birds, fish, or ungulates …