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by Julien Tailleur (Editor), Gerhard Gompper (Editor), M. Cristina Marchetti (Editor)
From molecular motors to bacteria, from crawling cells to large animals, active entities are found at all scales in the biological world. Active matter encompasses systems whose individual constituents irreversibly dissipate energy to exert self-propelling forces on their environment. Over the past twenty years, scientists have managed to engineer synthetic active particles in the lab, paving the way towards smart active materials. This book gathers a pedagogical set of lecture notes that cover topics in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and active matter. These lecture notes stem from the first summer school on Active Matter delivered at the Les Houches school of Physics. The lectures covered four main research directions: collective behaviours in active-matter systems, passive and active colloidal systems, biophysics and active matter, and nonequilibrium statistical physics--from passive to active.
Author Biography
Julien Tailleur, Director of Research, CNRS, University of Paris, Gerhard Gompper, Professor of Physics, University of Cologne, M. Cristina Marchetti, Professor of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Julia M. Yeomans, Professor of Physics, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, Christophe Salomon, Director of Research at CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris
