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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: black;">Please join at the link below to attend:</span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Slaam] Reminder: SLAAM seminar tomorrow Monday February 12th (12 noon EST) by Menachem Stern (UPenn)</span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: black;">This is a gentle reminder of the first
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__physics.ucmerced.edu_slaam&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6T170XR90Za4-nl9r1e8-WfEJbvH5g5hJbA9UumqfWQ&m=blUGUqAYGAyOmfcA6wfbX1KdEHN6f7rlZXR4X15CvyI8uL__ETi299NvZD96qFU6&s=MXUKX4H_djd0Ct_0kzRBhKPqez6-ARSHV2ymcIgm0vs&e=" id="OWA83059190-298f-4291-05f7-0ef4bceeabaa" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" 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" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin: 0px;">Soft
Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: black;"> seminar of the spring, to be given by
<b>Dr. </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Menachem (Nachi) Stern
</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: black;">(</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">University of Pennsylvania</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: black;">)
on <b>Monday, February 12th, </b>at <b>9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time (US).
</b>Please join at the zoom link below!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: black;">We do recognize that some of you in the biophysics community might be busy attending the annual Biophysical Society conference in Philadelphia tomorrow and will not be able to make
time for this. We do have you covered because we will try to post the recording soon on our website.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b> Learning without neurons in physical systems</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;">Please join at the link below to attend:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;">Zoom Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475 | Passcode: 223642</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; 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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Please see more info in the flyer:
<a href="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/menachem_stern_slaam.pdf" id="OWA75ba511d-dc14-baa1-fc0b-81bacde05d65" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/menachem_stern_slaam.pdf" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/menachem_stern_slaam.pdf</a> and in the text below:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;"><b>Abstract</b>: </span><span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">From electrically responsive neuronal networks to the adaptive immune response, biological systems can learn to perform complex tasks.
In this seminar, we explore physical learning, a framework inspired by computational learning theory and biological systems, where networks physically adapt to applied forces to adopt desired functions. Unlike traditional engineering approaches, physical learning
is facilitated by physically realizable learning rules, requiring only local responses and no explicit information about the desired functionality. Our research shows that such local learning rules can be derived for broad classes of physical networks, and
that physical learning is indeed physically realizable through laboratory experiments. We further find that physical learning rules can give rise to robust and energy efficient supervised and unsupervised modes of learning. By leveraging advances of statistical
learning theory and neuroscience in physical machines, we propose autonomous physical learning as a promising bridge between computational machine learning and biology, with the potential to enable the development of new classes of smart metamaterials that
adapt in-situ to users’ needs.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;"><b>Speaker bio</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Menachem Stern is a theoretical physicist exploring learning in physical systems, particularly in the contexts of mechanical systems and physically inspired learning rules. He is specifically interested
in the analogies between learning in physical networks and biological\computational systems. These fundamental connections suggest the use of physical systems as learning algorithms with novel properties, as well as the understanding of learning and adaptation
in nature. Menachem is currently a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Pennsylvania, department of physics and astronomy, working with Andrea Liu and Vijay Balasubramanian. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from The University of Chicago.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;">See you there! </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;">Kinjal Dasbiswas</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;">on behalf of the SLAAM organizing team<br>
(Alexandra Tayar, Suraj Shankar, Daniel Beller, Kinjal Dasbiswas)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; color: black;"><i>To join the SLAAM mailing list, please sign up
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