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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">This is a reminder that the next Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter seminar will be tomorrow, </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black">Monday,<span style="margin:0px"> </span><b>Nov.
8</b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:black"><b>th</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/6
pm Central European Time. (Please note that the US has moved out of daylight savings time this weekend.) This seminar will be given by<span style="margin:0px"> <b>Dr. Anton Peshkov</b></span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><i>(University of Rochester, Rochester,
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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"> <span style="margin:0px;background-color:white">Metachronal
waves in swarms of nematode </span><em style="background-color:white">Turbatrix aceti</em></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. Peshkov is a postdoctoral associate working at the University of Rochester in collaboration with Prof. Stephen Teitel and
Prof. Alice Quillen. His current work </span>is concentrated on the experimental investigation of biological active matter and numerical investigation of <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: black;">the jamming
transition in granular matter. He received his PhD from Sorbonne at the CEA Saclay working on continuum models of active matter. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: black;">The talk abstract and speaker
bio can be viewed </span><font style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/anton_peshkov_slaam_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/anton_peshkov_slaam_1.pdf" data-linkindex="0">here</a></span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></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">The Physics department and the CCBM at UC Merced are proud to bring you this series given exclusively by postdocs and we plan to continue in
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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 Dasbiswas</span></font></p>
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