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<p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">Dear enthusiasts of the SLAAM seminars,</span></p>
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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">We are excited to announce that the next Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter seminars will be on coming </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">Monday
(</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black"><b>Aug 2nd</b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">) at <b>9 am</b> (PDT)/12 noon EDT/5
pm Central European Time. This seminar will be given by<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><b>Dr. </b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white"><b>Sulimon
Sattari</b></span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><b> </b></span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><i>(</i></span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><i>Hokkaido University)<span> </span></i>on:</span></span></p>
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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">Title: </span><b> </b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(50, 51, 54); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Do
leader cells drive collective behavior in Dictyostelium Discoideum amoeba colonies?</span></b></span><br>
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<p style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">Dr. Sattari is a specially appointed assistant professor at Hokkaido University working under Prof. Tamiki Komatsuzaki. He specializes
in understanding collective behavior in cells as well as in toy models, with a focus on data-driven techniques in information theory. </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">The talk abstract and
speaker bio can be viewed </span><font color="#1155CC"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/sulimon_sattari_slaam.pdff" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/sulimon_sattari_slaam.pdff">here</a></font>.</p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">The zoom information for this talk is:</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br>
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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Times,serif"><span style="margin:0px;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="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif">Please join if the time works for you.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font color="black" 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" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px;color:blue"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif">https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"> for
more information on past and upcoming talks including a full recording of previous talks. </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Times,serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">If you are a postdoc interested in giving a seminar, please indicate that while signing up at the
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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>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font color="black" 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>
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