Emergent phenomena in chaotic active matter. Active matter is a nascent area concerned with collective motion of many interacting active entities such as human crowds, bird flocks and robotic swarms.

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Emergent phenomena in chaotic active matter. Active matter is a nascent area concerned with collective motion of many interacting active entities such as human crowds, bird flocks and robotic swarms. Many active entities show signatures of chaos that cannot be captured by traditional active matter models. By undertaking a novel interdisciplinary approach connecting active-matter physics with the mathematics of chaos, this project aims to investigate the effects of encoding chaos in individual active entities on emergent collective behaviours and their subsequent control. It expects to generate foundational knowledge in active matter with potential applications in controlling collective motion of engineered systems (e.g. robotic swarms for search missions and environmental monitoring).. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4901 - Applied Mathematics. Lead: Dr Rahil Valani