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<div>Dear enthusiasts of the SLAAM seminars,</div>

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<div class="elementToProof">We are excited to announce that the next Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM) seminar will be on

<b>Monday, June 20th</b> at <b>9 am Pacific/12 noon Eastern time</b>, by <b>Dr. Leroy Jia</b>  (Flatiron Institute).</div>

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<div class="elementToProof">Title: <b>Membrane mechanics meet minimal manifolds<br>

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<div>The zoom information for this talk is:</div>

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<div>https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</div>

<div>Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475</div>

<div>Passcode: 223642</div>

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<div class="elementToProof">Dr. Jia is a Flatiron Research Fellow in Prof. Michael Shelley's Biophysical Modeling Group at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology. He works on the applied analysis and geometry of soft, fluid, and active matter

 systems. More details about the speaker and abstract of the talk can be found <a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/leroy_jia_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/leroy_jia_slaam.pdf">

here</a>.</div>

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<div>As usual, there will be a 15 min informal Q&A at the end of the hour. Graduate students will have an opportunity to interact with the speaker in an informal setting during "Meet the speaker" timeslot just after the talk. Please join if the time works for

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here</a> to register your interest to give a talk (postdocs only) and to receive these notifications.</div>

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<div class="elementToProof">A recording of the fantastic talk on shape-morphing sheets by our previous speaker, Dr. Ido Levin, is now available

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here</a> and on the SLAAM website.<br>

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<div class="elementToProof">Best regards,</div>

<div>Suraj Shankar</div>

<div>on behalf of organizing team</div>

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