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MIT Department of Physics
Building 6C-419
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Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
e-mail : jgt (at) mit.edu

Active matter and collective behaviour

As the term progresses, you will be able to find here some materials for the ICFP Master's lectures on active matter. You can find the presentation of the lectures here.

Important:

Lectures take place from 9:30am till 12:30pm in room 109, located in the first-floor lobby between the towers 14 and 24 in Sorbone Universite.
Lecture notes and slides below are definitely not without typos. Please let me know when/if you find any.

Slides and hand-written lecture notes

First lecture (January 26, J. Tailleur): Active particles at the microscopic scale 1/3, Introductory slides and Handwritten lecture notes
Second lecture (February 2, J. Tailleur): Active particles at the microscopic scale 2/3 , Handwritten lecture notes
Third lecture (February 9, J. Tailleur): Active particles at the microscopic scale 3/3 & Motility-induced phase separation 1/3, Handwritten lecture notes, Introductory slides
Fourth lecture (February 16, J. Tailleur): Motility-induced phase separation 2/3, Handwritten lecture notes
Fifth lecture (February 23, J. Tailleur): Motility-induced phase separation 3/3, Handwritten lecture notes, Conclusion slides
Sixth lecture (March 16, J. Tailleur): Transition to collective motion 1/2, Handwritten lecture notes, Intro Flocking
Seventh lecture (March 23, J. Tailleur): Transition to collective motion 2/2, Handwritten lecture notes

Other Material

Notes on the derivations of Master Equations: Handwritten notes

Reading Material

Please find below suggestions of complementary reading material. The literature is infinite, and you can find many more references in the lecture notes, but I have listed below the articles that are the most relevant to the lectures.

General methods: the books by Gardiner (Handbook of stochastic methods), van Kampen (Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry), and Risken (The Fokker-Planck Equation) are standards.
General introduction on active matter: Review on irreversibility, General introduction to active particles and their emerging behaviors
Reading material on Motility-Induced Phase Separation: Short review, Pedagogical introduction, Detailed computations: Coarse-graining, Phase diagram
Reading material on the Transition to collective motion: General introduction on flocking models, General introduction to hydrodynamics of flocks, Active Ising Model, Travelling bands in flocking models