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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">Dear enthusiasts of the SLAAM seminars,</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">We invite you to join us for the next Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM) seminar, to be given by<span> </span><b>Dr. Krishna Shrinivas</b><span> </span>(Harvard University) on<span> </span><strong><span style="margin:0px">Monday,</span></strong><b><span> </span>Sep
12</b><span> </span>at<span> </span><b>9 am Pacific/12 noon Eastern time</b>.</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">Title:<span> </span><b>The many phases of a cell</b></span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px"> </span></b><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">[<a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/krishna_shrinivas_slaam70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">flyer</a>]</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">The Zoom information for this talk is:</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px"><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</a></span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px">Passcode: 223642</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black">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 the "Meet
the speaker" timeslot just after the talk. Please join if the time works for you. Please sign up<span> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLScTyzEuuE7TfrrapgP4tzN-5FoPSqbBhURUxa9-2Dzc8USnY1IPzA_viewform&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6T170XR90Za4-nl9r1e8-WfEJbvH5g5hJbA9UumqfWQ&m=NK4EGo1VvrDiYSxdvOUJXgCkEAzTrQzNpQi-P59LZiKL_lMA3briJm9KQh9Y3suN&s=3hc1lEhiJwBLtMEr12Z9K5XtZaVlEfOZKYXGtXCjRDg&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">here</a><span> </span>to
register your interest to give a talk (postdocs only) and to receive these notifications.</span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black">Abstract:</span></b><span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black">Cells are a remarkable example of multiphase living fluids - billions of proteins and nucleic acids self-organize by phase transitions into diverse coexisting assemblies called
biomolecular condensates. How dozens of interacting species in complex environments and subject to non-equilibrium fluxes encode for macroscopic properties remains challenging to decipher. In this talk, I will introduce a framework to predict emergent behavior
in multiphase living fluids - drawing on ideas across non-equilibrium theory, statistical physics, and applied mathematics. By integrating phase-field simulations and random-matrix theory, I will first describe a model of fluids with randomly interacting components
that exhibits complex yet surprisingly predictable multiphase coexistence. I will subsequently describe how active chemical fluxes can tunably modify emergent phase behavior, even in the absence of compositional changes. Finally, when interactions are partially
structured i.e. non-random, I will show that there are<span> </span><i>statistical</i><span> </span>constraints on number of steady-state properties. I will conclude by highlighting few open questions and exciting future directions at the intersection of biomolecular
condensates and soft living matter.<br>
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<b>About the speaker:</b></span><b><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px"></span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black">Dr. Krishna Shrinivas is an interdisciplinary scientist with broad interests in biophysics and soft matter, with an emphasis on investigating self-organization in cell biology.
Towards this, he develops quantitative theoretical and computational frameworks and collaborates extensively with diverse experimental scientists.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black">Dr.
Shrinivas is currently an Independent Fellow of Quantitative Biology at Harvard University, jointly funded by NSF and the Simons Foundation. He previously trained as a chemical engineer, completing his PhD at MIT working with Arup K. Chakraborty and his B.Tech
(<i>Honors</i>) at IIT-Madras.</span><span style="margin:0px"></span></p>
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Best regards,</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;color:black">Kinjal Dasbiswas<br>
on behalf of organizers</span></p>
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