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I am forwarding the announcement for this Monday's SLAAM seminar in case you haven't received it already. We are phasing out this UC Merced-based mailing list to reflect the revamped, multi-institutional nature of the organizing team, and will instead use
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We thank you for your continued interest in this seminar series featuring postdoc speakers! </div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> slaam_seminar@googlegroups.com <slaam_seminar@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Suraj Shankar <surajsh@umich.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 7, 2024 9:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> slaam_seminar@googlegroups.com <slaam_seminar@googlegroups.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SLAAM] Reminder: SLAAM seminar by Dr. Sadjad Arzash (SU/UPenn) on Sept 9</span>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Hello everyone,</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">We gently remind you of our upcoming<span style="font-size: 13px;">
</span><span style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/slaamseminars/home" id="OWA24c21b47-02ff-9ccf-acec-e0937473c570" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Soft
Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> seminar in association with APS-DBIO and APS-DSOFT, which will be given by
<b>Dr. Sadjad Arzash </b>(Syracuse University/</span>University of Pennsylvania<span style="font-size: 13px;">) on
<b>Monday, Sept 9, </b>at <b>10 am Pacific/12 am Central/1 pm Eastern time US (</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>Note the change in time!</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>)</b>.</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in; font-size: 13px;">The talk details are below. More details are available in the attached flyer.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Epithelial Mechanics Through the Lens of Learning and Adaptation</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>Abstract:
</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">During embryonic development, tissues undergo substantial transformations to sculpt the organism’s body plan. This remarkable morphogenesis is facilitated by the tissue’s ability to shift from a solid-like to a
more fluid-like state, enabling extensive movement. Simple vertex models have been successful in capturing the mechanical properties of epithelial tissues, including these solid-to-fluid transitions. These models have parameters like target cell shapes that
dictate the tissue’s mechanical behavior. In this talk, I will demonstrate that introducing cell-scale properties as new adaptive degrees of freedom can significantly reshape the system’s high-dimensional energy landscape, thereby shifting the rigidity transition
of the tissue. Additionally, I will discuss how studying tissues within the framework of learning and adaptation offers valuable insights into another important developmental process: convergent extension. By using edge tensions as adaptive degrees of freedom,
I will show that a simple local rule on these tensions induces a convergent extension flow, shedding light on the underlying mechanisms of this process.</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in; font-size: 13px;">Please join at the link below to attend:</div>
<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umich.zoom.us/j/94053966552&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1725460250574869&usg=AOvVaw3hIBp4nmGfBnpi5wPaqwqX" id="OWA0dc17c3c-ce12-8963-7645-ee0de56ba0cf" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://umich.zoom.us/j/94053966552</a><br>
Meeting ID: 940 5396 6552</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in;">You can also add the <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MjNmZDQ0MWZlNjc0ODBjMzExZDhhODlmMzk2NGQyZGU2ODU2NTE3OWRiNmVhMmYxMjJiYjQ4ODNmYTZmOTRiM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t" id="OWAe690d327-4f92-25fd-6d72-d05067508c96" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
SLAAM Event Calendar</a> to get the full and updated schedule of the speakers and seminar links.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0px; font-size: 13px;">There will be a brief Q&A session 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. </div>
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Hope to see you there! </div>
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Best regards,</div>
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Suraj Shankar</div>
<p style="direction: ltr; background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">on behalf of the SLAAM organizing team</span></p>
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<i>To join the SLAAM mailing list, please sign up </i><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><i><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/slaam_seminar/" id="OWAd3815b07-befd-c083-7607-4eb53383b11f" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLScTyzEuuE7TfrrapgP4tzN-5FoPSqbBhURUxa9-2Dzc8USnY1IPzA_viewform&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6T170XR90Za4-nl9r1e8-WfEJbvH5g5hJbA9UumqfWQ&m=NK4EGo1VvrDiYSxdvOUJXgCk" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">here</a></i></span><i>.
If you would like to nominate a postdoc or yourself to give a SLAAM talk, we invite you to fill out this
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Regards,</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Suraj Shankar (he/him/his)</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Assistant Professor of Physics</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">University of Michigan</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">2241 Homer A. Neal Laboratory,</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">LSA Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109</div>
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