<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Dear all,</span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">We are excited to announce that the next <span class="gmail-il">Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter</span> seminar will be given by </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><b>Dr. Suraj Shankar </b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><i>(</i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><i>Harvard University)</i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">,  coming Monday (</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><b>June 7th</b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">) at <b>9 am</b> (PDT)/12 noon EDT/5 pm Central European TIme.</span></p></div><div style="margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black;margin:0px"><br></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:black;margin:0px">Title: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><b> </b></span><b style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Flocking through complex environments</b><font color="#201f1e"><span style="font-size:15px"><b><br></b></span></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black">Dr. Shankar is a theoretical soft condensed matter physicist specializing in geometric and topological aspects of soft and active matter and is currently a Junior Fellow at Harvard</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">The abstract and speaker bio can be viewed </span><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/suraj_shankar_slaam.pdf"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black"><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">here</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">.</span></a></p></div><div style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">The zoom information for this talk is:</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br><br><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:blue;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</span></a><br></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Passcode: 223642</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">As usual, graduate students will have an opportunity to interact with the speaker in an informal setting during "Meet the speaker hour" just after the talk.</span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",times,serif">Please join if the time works for you.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Please see </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:blue;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">https://physics.ucmerced.edu/<span class="gmail-il">slaam</span></span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"> for more information on past and upcoming talks including a recording of the last talk by Dr. Brian Chang.  All talks so far have been recorded with the speakers' consent.  UC Merced Physics and the CCBM are proud to bring you this series given exclusively by postdocs and we plan to continue through the summer and fall.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Best regards,<br>Kinjal (on behalf of all organizers) </span></font></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Kinjal Dasbiswas</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Assistant Professor</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Department of Physics</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Merced<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Office: ACS 266  <a href="https://sites.ucmerced.edu/kdasbiswas" style="font-size:small" target="_blank">https://sites.ucmerced.edu/kdasbiswas</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Pronouns: he/him/his  সে /তাকে/তার </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>