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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Dear enthusiasts of the SLAAM seminars,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">This is a gentle reminder that the next <a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam" target="_blank" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1">Soft Living Active
and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)</span></a> seminar will be given shortly by <b>Dr. Fernando Caballero</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></b></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">(University
of California, Santa Barbara) on <b>Monday, April 24th, </b>at <b>9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time (US)</b>, with the title:</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424">“Phase separation in active liquid crystal mixtures: bulk and interfacial dynamics”</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Please join at the link below to attend:</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09" target="_blank" title="https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">Zoom Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475 | Passcode: 223642</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424">Please see more info in the flyer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/fernando_caballero_slaam.pdf" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/fernando_caballero_slaam.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">here</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
in the text below:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><b><span style="color:black">Abstract</span></b></span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">: Liquid-liquid phase separation is an ubiquitous phenomenon in biological systems, and has inspired several lines of
research in the active and soft matter community in the last few years, hoping it will shed light into processes ranging from the formation of primitive cells to morphogenesis and tissue dynamics. In this latter case, the impact of active liquid crystals on
this process is of interest, as it can inform how cytoskeletal structures within the cell can drive this dynamics. I will go over continuum theories used to understand the coupling between active liquid crystals and phase separation, together with experimental
systems that have inspired and informed this theoretical work. I will then show what this models can do, what their limitations are, and what interfacial dynamics one can extract from them, in both linear and nonlinear regimes, as nonreciprocal couplings between
interface fluctuations and liquid-crystalline degrees of freedom can sustain propagating waves, mixing processes, and other nonequilibrium phenomena.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Speaker bio</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Fernando Caballero is a postdoctoral researcher in the Physics Department at University of California, Santa Barbara, studying various aspects of phase separation in active matter, such as effects
of active turbulence on criticality and nonequilibrium interface dynamics. He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in 2020 advised by Michael Cates, studying critical properties of field theories of active matter.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="color:black">See you there! </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Best regards,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Dan Beller</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">on behalf of the SLAAM organizing team</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">(Alexandra Tayar, Suraj Shankar, Daniel Beller, Kinjal Dasbiswas)</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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