Julien Tailleur is a statistical physicist working at CNRS and Université de Paris. He has worked on a broad range of problems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and its applications to biophysics and active matter.

Gerhard Gompper is Professor of Physics at University of Cologne and Institute Director at Forschungszentrum Jülich. He was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where he also earned his PhD.

Cristina Marchetti is Professor of Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. She was educated in Italy at the University of Pavia, earned her Ph.D. in the U.S. at the University of Florida, and joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbara in 2018.

Julia Yeomans is Professor of Physics and Head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Pauline Chan Fellow at St Hilda's College Oxford.

Christophe Salomon is Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris.

• Introduction


• Part 1: Collective behaviours in active-matter systems


• 1: Hugues Chate and Benoit Mahault: Dry, aligning, dilute, active matter: A synthetic and self-contained overview


• 2: John Toner: Why walking is easier than pointing: Hydrodynamics of dry active matter


• 3: Olivier Dauchot: Collective Motion in Active Materials: Model Experiments


• 4: Francesc Sagues, Pau Guillamat, Jérôme Hardoüin, Berta Martinez-Prat, and Jordi Ignés-Mullol: Features of interfaced and confined experimental active nematics


• 5: Leticia Cugliandolo and Giuseppe Gonnella: Phases of planar active matter


• 6: Michael E. Cates: Active Field Theories


• Part 2: Passive and active colloidal systems


• 7: Celia Lozano, Tobias Bäuerle, and Clemens Bechinger: "Active brownian particles with programmable interaction rules"


• 8: Ramin Golestanian: Phoretic Active Matter


• 9: Thorsten Brazda, Xin Cao, and Clemens Bechinger: Nanotribology of Commensurate and Incommensurate Colloidal Monolayers on Periodic Surfaces


• Part 3: From biophysics to active matter


• 10: Jean-François and Joanny Louis Brézin: Tissues as active materials


• 11: Erwin Frey and Fridtjof Brauns: Self-organisation of protein patterns


• 12: Eric R. Dufresne: Active materials: Biological benchmarks and transport limitations


• Part 4: Non-equilibrium statistical physics, from passive to active


• 13: Daan Frenkel: Modelling the microscopic origins of active transport


• 14: Mehran Kardar: Fluctuation Induced Forces in and out of Equilibrium


• 15: Ludovic Berthier and Jorge Kurchan: Active glassy materials


• 16: Ydan Ben Dor, Yariv Kafri, and Julien Tailleur: Forces in dry active matter


• 17: Suzanne M. Fielding: Rheology of complex and active fluids