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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 a Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM) this coming Monday, <b><span> </span>April 11th</b> at <b>9 am (Pacific)/12 noon Eastern.</b>
This seminar will be given by <b>Dr. Eduardo Vitral </b> <i>( University of Nevada, Reno).</i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt"><br>
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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: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>Better
energies for low-dimensional elastic systems under combined bending and stretching</b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11.5pt"></span></div>
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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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</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. Vitral is a postdoctoral
scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno working with Prof. James Hanna on nonlinear elasticity and crumpling. His research interests
<div>include the <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">interplay between geometry and mechanics. The talk abstract and full speaker bio can be viewed </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/eduardo_vitral_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/eduardo_vitral_slaam.pdf">here</a>.</span></div>
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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></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black">I would also like to s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">hare with you the</span><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/rec/play/C4Wo5tBChVcGdycVmlOLbLt3srAvNT7gIsDwMWHq0EjjCfWudPf13LbDgudJK_Bobu-Kb4Q8EQWAgV4.FxtLNh-tBLe_DNd4?autoplay=true&startTime=1649088101000" title="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/rec/play/C4Wo5tBChVcGdycVmlOLbLt3srAvNT7gIsDwMWHq0EjjCfWudPf13LbDgudJK_Bobu-Kb4Q8EQWAgV4.FxtLNh-tBLe_DNd4?autoplay=true&startTime=1649088101000">recording
of the last talk by Jonathan Michel</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Recordings of previous talks are uploaded here regularly with the speaker’s consent:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
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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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