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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black" class="ContentPasted0"><span class="x_apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">The upcoming </span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphysics.ucmerced.edu%2Fslaam&data=05%7C01%7Cd.a.beller%40jhu.edu%7C5afa44fcce434f0efed608db0463b5d6%7C9fa4f438b1e6473b803f86f8aedf0dec%7C0%7C0%7C638108599445499851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PBY52JD%2BmGUUGF48zMYVIP3w5wYFE3TwNtJxP6flmgY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphysics.ucmerced.edu%2Fslaam&data=05%7C01%7Cd.a.beller%40jhu.edu%7C5afa44fcce434f0efed608db0463b5d6%7C9fa4f438b1e6473b803f86f8aedf0dec%7C0%7C0%7C638108599445499851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8e" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);text-decoration:underline" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link"><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px">Soft
Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)</span></a><span class="x_apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span>seminar will be given by <b class="ContentPasted0">Dr. Raphael Sarfati<span class="x_apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></b>(University
of Colorado Boulder) this Monday <b class="ContentPasted0">(February 27),<span class="x_apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></b>at <b class="ContentPasted0">9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time</b>, with the title<span class="x_apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> “</span><span style="margin:0px;background:white" class="ContentPasted1"><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/raphael_sarfati_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/raphael_sarfati_slaam.pdf" data-loopstyle="link" id="LPlnk736366">Physics
of thinking matter: birds, bugs, sheep, andplenty of fireflies</a></span></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black" class="ContentPasted0">.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5, 99, 193);text-decoration:underline" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black" class="ContentPasted0">Abstract:</span></b><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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How is it a physicist's business to study bird flocks and mosquito swarms? As it turns out, large groups of animals often display strong analogies with traditional physical systems, and notably emergent behavior when many individuals become strongly interconnected.
They self-organize into specific patterns, reach equilibrium statistics, propagate waves, and display collective transitions reminiscent of phase transitions. We will explore some of the recent advances in the field of animal collective behavior and ask how
far traditional physics frameworks can extend to systems of active and cognitive entities, which I like to call "thinking matter". We will then focus on a spectacular and poetic manifestation of collective behavior: the spontaneous synchronization of thousands
of firefly flashes.
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black;background:white" class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted2">Raphael is a physicist, naturalist, and explorer with a broad curiosity for natural and cultural phenomena. Most of his research revolves around collecting
and analyzing stochastic trajectories. From molecules crawling on a surface to migrating birds crossing continents, deciphering trajectories can reveal substantial information about an object (or subject) and its environment. His most recent pursuits investigate
animal collective behavior, using spatiotemporal correlations in an ensemble of trajectories to understand how social interactions shape a group's collective dynamics. </span></p>
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Raphael's trajectory originated in Paris, France. He attended the Ecole Polytechnique and obtained his PhD at Yale University with Eric Dufresne. He then continued the westward course to Colorado, where he is now a postdoctoral associate at CU Boulder in Orit
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black" class="ContentPasted0">Best regards,</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black" class="ContentPasted0">Kinjal Dasbiswas</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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