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:
Michael CATES (UK)
Hugues CHATÉ (France)
Eric CLEMENT (France)
Zvonimir DOGIC (USA)
Erwin FREY (Germany)
Gerhard GOMPPER (Germany)
Hartmut LÖWEN (Germany)
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
Organizers:
Igor ARANSON (USA)
Fernando PERUANI (France)
Important Dates:
Registration starts March 1, 2026
Registration deadline April 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance June 1, 2026
Venue:
Cergy-Paris Université site de Neuville
5 mail Gay-Lussac CS 20601 Neuville
95031 Cergy-Pontoise cedex
(last week at site de Saint-Martin, 2 Av. Adolphe Chauvin)