Summer school on Living Active Matter 2026

The LPTM laboratory is organising a three-week summer school dedicated to "Living Active Matter" with the support of CYAS in the framework of thematic months programmes.

Organisers:

Fernando Peruani, LPTM, CYU (France)
Igor Aronson, Pennsylvania State University (US), fellow-in-residence CYAS et LPTM

Local support/Organisers:

Swarnajit Chatterjee, LPTM, CYU (France)
Rodrigo Saavedra, LPTM, CYU (France)


This interdisciplinary summer school aims to train and connect a new generation of researchers from physics, biology, and related fields, bringing together PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to tackle fundamental questions about how living and synthetic active systems generate, organize, and propagate collective behavior far from equilibrium, from the self-organization of biological matter to the emergence of intelligent and information-driven dynamics.

Invited Lecturers:

• Eric BERTIN (France)

• Michael CATES (UK)

• Eric CLEMENT (France) 

• Zvonimir DOGIC (USA)

• Erwin FREY (Germany)

• Gerhard GOMPPER (Germany)

• Hartmut LÖWEN (Germany)

• Enkeleida LUSHI (USA)

• Alexandre SOLON (France)

• Julien TAILLEUR (USA)

• Kazumasa TAKEUCHI (Japan)
   

Topics:

• Phase-separation in Active Systems

• Theory of Polar Active Fluids

• Intelligent Active Matter

• Non-reciprocal Active Matter

• Disordered Active Systems

• Motility Assays and Bacterial Systems

• Information Propagation in Active Systems
  
  
  
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