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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 </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 16th</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 style="margin:0px"> <b>Dr. </b></span><b><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"></span>Mehdi Molaei</b>
<i>(University of Chicago).</i></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="margin:0px;font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif;color:rgb(50, 51, 54);background-color:white"> Flow
singularities in soft materials: from thermal motion to active molecular stresses</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. Molaei is a postdoctoral fellow at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. In his research,
he focuses on understanding the physics of soft materials with application in the fields of human health and bio-inspired materials and uses a broad range of experimental techniques including microscopy and particle tracking. </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><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/mehdi_molaei_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/mehdi_molaei_slaam.pdf">here</a>.</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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<a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px;color:blue"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</span></a><br>
</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<span> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTyzEuuE7TfrrapgP4tzN_oPSqbBhURUxa9-zc8USnY1IPzA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTyzEuuE7TfrrapgP4tzN_oPSqbBhURUxa9-zc8USnY1IPzA/viewform" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px">webform</a><span> </span>or
by directly emailing me.<br>
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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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