[Slaam] Fw: [SLAAM] Reminder: SLAAM seminar by Dr. Sadjad Arzash (SU/UPenn) on Sept 9

Sat Sep 7 21:53:21 PDT 2024

Dear SLAAM enthusiasts,
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 a google group to send future announcements.

As a subscribed member of the SLAAM mailing list, you should have received an invitation to join the slaam_seminar google groups. If you did not, please check your spam folder or just click on the "sign up for mailing list" button on our new website: https://sites.google.com/view/slaamseminars

We thank you for your continued interest in this seminar series featuring postdoc speakers!

Regards,
organizers
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Subject: [SLAAM] Reminder: SLAAM seminar by Dr. Sadjad Arzash (SU/UPenn) on Sept 9

Hello everyone,

We gently remind you of our upcoming Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)<https://sites.google.com/view/slaamseminars/home> seminar in association with APS-DBIO and APS-DSOFT, which will be given by Dr. Sadjad Arzash (Syracuse University/University of Pennsylvania) on Monday, Sept 9, at 10 am Pacific/12 am Central/1 pm Eastern time US (Note the change in time!).

The talk details are below. More details are available in the attached flyer.

Epithelial Mechanics Through the Lens of Learning and Adaptation
Abstract: 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.

Please join at the link below to attend:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94053966552<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umich.zoom.us/j/94053966552&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1725460250574869&usg=AOvVaw3hIBp4nmGfBnpi5wPaqwqX>
Meeting ID: 940 5396 6552

You can also add the SLAAM Event Calendar<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MjNmZDQ0MWZlNjc0ODBjMzExZDhhODlmMzk2NGQyZGU2ODU2NTE3OWRiNmVhMmYxMjJiYjQ4ODNmYTZmOTRiM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t> to get the full and updated schedule of the speakers and seminar links.

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.

Hope to see you there!

Best regards,
Suraj Shankar

on behalf of the SLAAM organizing team

To join the SLAAM mailing list, please sign up here<https://groups.google.com/g/slaam_seminar/>. If you would like to nominate a postdoc or yourself to give a SLAAM talk, we invite you to fill out this webform<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu3g5HU-lcgUnUi38q8p6IyK8I7TShSarR7OPSkqAOkODqdg/viewform>.

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Regards,
Suraj Shankar (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Michigan
2241 Homer A. Neal Laboratory,
LSA Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/shankar-lab/<https://surajshankar.com/>

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