<div dir="ltr">FYI<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail-page" title="Page 1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail-column"><p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5349-Identity-H";color:rgb(19,19,24)">Wisdom of Hives and Mounds: Collective Problem Solving by Super-organisms</span></p><p><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5349-Identity-H";color:rgb(19,19,24)">L. <span class="gmail-il">Mahadevan</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5348-Identity-H";color:rgb(23,23,25)">Department of Physics, Biology and Engineering H</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5348-Identity-H";color:rgb(23,23,25)">arvard Univer</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5348-Identity-H";color:rgb(23,23,25)">sity</span></p><p><br></p></div><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail-column"><p><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5350-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16)">Date: </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5349-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16)">4/27/18</span></p><p><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5350-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16)">Time: </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5349-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16)">10:45 AM</span></p><p><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5350-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16)">Location</span><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5350-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16);vertical-align:1pt">: </span><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5349-Identity-H";color:rgb(13,13,16)">SSB 120</span></p><p><br></p></div></div><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail-column"><p><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5348-Identity-H";color:rgb(24,24,25)">Social insects are capable of solving complex physiological problems using collective strategies. I will discuss our work on some of these problems that include the physiology and morphogenesis of termite mounds, and active mechanisms for ventilation, mechanical adaptation and th</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5348-Identity-H";color:rgb(24,24,25)">rmoregu</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5348-Identity-H";color:rgb(24,24,25)">lation in bee aggregates.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Bold-5347-Identity-H"">BIO:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5346-Identity-H";color:rgb(24,24,25)">Lakshminarayanan <span class="gmail-il">Mahadevan</span> ("Maha") is currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at Harvard University. His work centers around using mathematics to understand the organization of matter in space and time, i.e. how it is shaped and how it flows, particularly at the scale observable by the unaided senses. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-Identity-H";color:rgb(24,24,25)">J</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"*Minion Pro-5346-Identity-H";color:rgb(24,24,25)">ust a few examples of his extremely creative work include understanding the fluttering of flags, the wrinkling of skin, the "Cheerios effect", origami design, the snapping of Venus Flytraps and the convolutions of the brain. Maha received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He started his independent career on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to the University of Cambridge. He has been at Harvard since 2003. He currently serves as the co-chair of Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and is the Faculty Dean of Mather House at Harvard University. Among many honors, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Guggenheim Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div class="gmail-m_8243267154217371233gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">______________________________<br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ajay Gopinathan<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Professor of Physics,<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Director, <a href="http://ccbm.ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">NSF-CREST: Center for Cellular and Bio-molecular Machines</a>,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">University of California, Merced,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">5200 North Lake Road,<br>Merced, CA 95343<br>Ph: 209 228 4048<br>email: <a href="mailto:agopinathan@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">agopinathan@ucmerced.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Office: COB 356</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">web: <a href="http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/agopinathan" target="_blank">faculty.ucmerced.edu/agopinathan</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">group: <a href="http://gopinathanlab.ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">gopinathanlab.ucmerced.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Center: <a href="http://ccbm.ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">ccbm.ucmerced.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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