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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">Dear enthusiasts of the <span style="margin:0px">SLAAM</span> seminars,</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are excited to announce that the next seminar in the Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (</span></font><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">SLAAM</span><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">)
series, is on </span></font><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Monday, </span><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">April
4th</b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> at </span><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9
am (Pacific)/</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">12 noon Eastern US time.</span></font><font color="#201f1e" face="Segoe UI, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
seminar on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">will be given by </span><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Dr.
Jonathan Michel</b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">(
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY).</i></p>
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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><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Making
a Mesh of Things: Using Network Models to Understand the Mechanics of Heterogeneous Tissues</span></b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif"></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;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif;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;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif;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">Dr. Jonathan Michel is a post-doctoral research associate in the group of Prof. Moumita Das at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is interested
in the mechanics and dynamics of biopolymer networks. The<span> </span><u>talk abstract and full speaker bio can be viewed </u><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/jonathan_michel_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/jonathan_michel_slaam.pdf">here</a>.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI", sans-serif"></span></p>
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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 <br>
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