Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics

The topic of the CXII session of the Les Houches Summer School, held in September 2018, was Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, offering a broad introduction to the foundations and modern applications of active matter and nonequilibrium physics.

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

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.