Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

Although the traits emerged in a mass gathering are often non-deliberative, the act of mass
impulse may lead to irrevocable crowd disasters. The two-fold increase of carnage in crowd …

We address a fundamental issue of collective motion of aerial robots: how to ensure that
large flocks of autonomous drones seamlessly navigate in confined spaces. The numerous …

Group formation in living systems typically results from a delicate balance of repulsive,
aligning, and attractive interactions. We found that a mere motility change of the individuals …

We review a general class of models for self-organized dynamics based on alignment. The
dynamics of such systems is governed solely by interactions among individuals or “agents,” …

Human crowds often bear a striking resemblance to interacting particle systems, and this
has prompted many researchers to describe pedestrian dynamics in terms of interaction …

ESPResSo is an extensible simulation package for research on soft matter. This versatile
molecular dynamics program was originally developed for coarse-grained simulations of …

We study the emergent behaviors of a population of swarming coupled oscillators, dubbed
swarmalators. Previous work considered the simplest, idealized case: identical …

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems.
Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and …

Coherent vortical motion has been reported in a wide variety of populations including living
organisms (bacteria, fishes, human crowds) and synthetic active matter (shaken grains …