<div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 18px;">I've been trying: just get "Waiting for the host to start this <span>meeting"!</span></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 18px;"><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">Thanks,</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">Richard (Dick) Gordon</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">Theoretical Biologist</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">Retired from University of Manitoba</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">DickGordonCan@protonmail.com (ask if you want access to my papers)</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">https://meet.jit.si/DickGordonMeeting please make an appointment</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman"">phone: 1-(204) 767-2164</p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman";color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4970-9953">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4970-9953</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman";color:rgb(0, 0, 255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/RichardGordonBooks">http://tinyurl.com/RichardGordonBooks</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font:18px "Times New Roman""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PobXQ-af8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PobXQ-af8</a></p><br></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br></div>
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On Monday, February 27th, 2023 at 10:29 AM, SLAAM Distribution List <slaam@lists.ucmerced.edu> wrote:<br><br>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> <b class="ContentPasted0">Dr. Raphael Sarfati<span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></b>(University of Colorado Boulder) this Monday <b class="ContentPasted0">(February
27),<span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></b>at <b class="ContentPasted0">9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time</b>, will talk about:<span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> “</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><a class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px" data-safelink="true" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/raphael_sarfati_slaam.pdf" data-loopstyle="link" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/raphael_sarfati_slaam.pdf">Physics
of thinking matter: birds, bugs, sheep, andplenty of fireflies</a></span></span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;color:black">.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black" class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="margin:0px" class="x_x_apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0">The upcoming </span><a style="margin:0px; color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline" data-loopstyle="link" class="x_ContentPasted0" data-linkindex="0" data-safelink="true" 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-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank" 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"><span style="font-size:11pt; margin:0px">Soft
Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)</span></a><span style="margin:0px" class="x_x_apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0"> </span>seminar will be given by <b class="x_ContentPasted0">Dr. Raphael Sarfati<span style="margin:0px" class="x_x_apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0"> </span></b>(University
of Colorado Boulder) this Monday <b class="x_ContentPasted0">(February 27),<span style="margin:0px" class="x_x_apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0"> </span></b>at <b class="x_ContentPasted0">9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time</b>, with the title<span style="margin:0px" class="x_x_apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0"> “</span><span style="margin:0px; background:white" class="x_ContentPasted1"><a id="LPlnk736366" data-loopstyle="link" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/raphael_sarfati_slaam.pdf" href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/raphael_sarfati_slaam.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Physics
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<span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black" class="x_ContentPasted0">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.<span style="margin:0px" class="x_x_apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt; margin:0px; color:black" class="x_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="x_ContentPasted0 x_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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