<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;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><br></span></p><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">This is a reminder that tomorrow's Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter 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-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;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> </span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:12pt">The zoom information for this talk is:</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"><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;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"></span></p><div style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p></div><p></p><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" target="_blank"><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><p style="margin:0in"><br></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/slaam</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"> for more information on past and upcoming talks including recordings of all past talks.</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>