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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">We are excited to bring to you the next edition of the Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM) seminars this spring. The first seminar this year is coming up on
Monday, <b>Jan. 31st</b> at <b>9 am</b> (Pacific)/12 noon Eastern US/5 pm Central European Time. This seminar will be given by <b>Dr. Michael Norton</b> <i>( Rochester Institute of Technology, NY).</i></span><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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Towards model-based control of active matter: active nematics and oscillator networks</span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"> Dr. Michael Norton is a Research Scientist in Physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying pattern formation in nonequilibrium and biophysical systems. He
works with Prof. Moumita Das on the modeling of bacterial DNA-protein condensates. The talk abstract and full speaker bio can be viewed<span> </span><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/michael_norton_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/michael_norton_slaam.pdf">here</a>.<br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", 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"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", 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", serif;color:black">Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black"><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">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. Please join
if the time works for you. </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"> If you are a postdoc interested in giving a seminar, please indicate that while signing up at the <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 style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">Best regards,<br>
Kinjal Dasbiswas</span></p>
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