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<span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">This is a gentle reminder that the next
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<span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)</span></a> seminar will be given by <b class="x_ContentPasted1">Dr. Abigail Plummer
</b>(Princeton University) on <b class="x_ContentPasted1">Monday, July 10th, </b>at <b class="x_ContentPasted1">9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time (US)</b>, with the title:</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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<b><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">“Fracture, instability, and phase transitions via constrained expansion”</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; background: white;"><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Please join at the link below to attend:</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; background: white;"><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Zoom Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475 | Passcode: 223642</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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here</a> and in the text below:<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__physics.ucmerced.edu_sites_physics.ucmerced.edu_files_page_documents_abigail-5Fplummer-5Fslaam.pdf&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6T170XR90Za4-nl9r1e8-WfEJbvH5g5hJbA9UumqfWQ&m=VIVmR0Q0sQexSUhWvxtfBkhwm42Tq3Lys8WN-w42BFnrLDc4Cjr7RMAacKscR3Ii&s=ng4iZG57RIyc1j5kDprrGdPDxgd-9QZdSIIgXjEhQFQ&e=" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/abigail_plummer_slaam.pdf" data-loopstyle="linkonly"><br>
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<span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><b><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Abstract</span></b></span><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">:</span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1" style="background-color: white;">Consider an elastic material that increases in size due
to growth or swelling. If the material is unable to expand freely, stresses develop. In this talk, I will present two systems in which stresses due to constrained expansion can generate dramatic and complex responses. </span>First, I will describe how hydrogels,
polymer networks that imbibe large amounts of water, behave when forced to swell around rigid obstacles. We identify a regime in which stresses due to obstacles cause swelling hydrogels to fracture, tearing themselves apart as they expand. Second, I will discuss
the mechanics of thin sheets that have been locally dilated at a periodic array of sites. When the dilations are sufficiently large, the affected sites buckle either above or below their surroundings. These bistable dilations form a programmable metamaterial,
and their behavior can be understood through an analogy to the Ising model.<br class="x_ContentPasted1">
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<p style="margin: 0in; background: white;"><b><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Speaker bio</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background: white; color: black;"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="background-color: white;">Abigail Plummer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, working with Andrej Košmrlj. She completed
her PhD in physics at Harvard University in 2021 advised by David R. Nelson. She is interested in a wide range of questions related to growth and restructuring in complex environments.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; background: white;"><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">See you there! </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; background: white;"><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="color: black;">Best regards,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; background: white;"><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="color: black;">Suraj Shankar</span></span><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0in 12pt; background: white;"><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="color: black;">on behalf of the SLAAM organizing team</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><br class="x_ContentPasted1">
</span><span class="x_x_contentpasted0"><span class="x_ContentPasted1" style="color: black;">(Alexandra Tayar, Suraj Shankar, Daniel Beller, Kinjal Dasbiswas)</span></span><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"></span></p>
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