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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear enthusiasts of the SLAAM seminars,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are excited to bring to you the next Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM) this coming Monday, <b> Feb. 28th</b> at 9 am (Pacific)/12 noon
Eastern US/5 pm Central European Time. This seminar will be given by <b>Dr. Caleb Wagner</b> <i>( University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE).</i></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Title: </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323336;background:white"> Exact
coherent structures and transition to turbulence in a confined active nematic</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The zoom information for this talk is:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
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<a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</span></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Passcode: 223642</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Dr. Caleb Wagner is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Prof. Piyush Grover on the application of dynamical systems theory
to active matter. The talk abstract and full speaker bio can be viewed </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/caleb_wagner_slaam.pdf"><span style="background:white">here</span></a><span style="background:white">.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Best regards,<br>
Kinjal Dasbiswas</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">on behalf of organizing team</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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