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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">Dear enthusiasts of the<span> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="marklttxchx7m" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">SLAAM</span><span> </span>seminars,<br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">We are excited to resume the Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (<span data-markjs="true" class="marklttxchx7m" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">SLAAM</span>)
series after an eventful APS March Meeting. To make up for the lost time, we will have three SLAAM seminars on consecutive Mondays beginning next week.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">The next seminar on Monday, <b>March 28th</b> at <b>9 am (Pacific)/</b>12 noon Eastern US time will be given by <b>Dr. Eldad Afik</b> <i>( California Institute of Technology,
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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">Title: </span><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span></b><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(50, 51, 54);background-color:white"> </span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><b> Intrinsic
Rhythms in a Giant Single-Celled Organism and the Interplay with Time-Dependent Drive, Explored via Self-Organized Macroscopic Waves</b></span></p>
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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="0" 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;background-color:white"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white">Dr. Eldad Afik is currently
a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and a Research Specialist I at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He works with Prof. Elliot Meyerowitz on spatio-temporal dynamics in organismal development and interaction with the environment.
The <u>talk abstract and full speaker bio can be viewed </u></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/eldad_afik_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/eldad_afik_slaam.pdf">here</a></span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">Best regards,<br>
Kinjal Dasbiswas<br>
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