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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#5b8828;background:#fdf869">Upcoming ICAM-I2CAM Workshop
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Active and Smart Matter: A New Frontier for Science and Engineering<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p>
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<b><i>June 20-23, 2016<u></u><u></u></i></b></span></p>
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<i>Syracuse University</i><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="http://activematter2016.syr.edu/" target="_blank">
http://activematter2016.syr.edu/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:red">REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2016</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#ff6600">Objective:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666">Active and smart matter bridges science with engineering by searching for collective and programmable effects in such systems as spherical rafts of fire ants, chromatin inside
the cell nucleus, collections of micro-bots, and actively catalyzed colloidal molecules. This conference will allow scientists from different backgrounds to assemble and discuss important recent findings, and determine future directions for the field by identifying underlying
questions and approaches.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666">Experimental, theoretical, and numerical talks, posters, and discussions will address the following questions:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#666666"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy">How does collective motion in non-living active systems differ from those in living systems?</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy">What purely physical interactions lead to coherent patterns observed in living systems?</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy">How do you build an in vitro cell, which either mimics a real cell or has new properties?</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy">How do you quantify collective motion and mechanical forces of cells in tissues, and how can these systems be modified to ellicit new, smart
responses?</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy">How can active matter help drive self-assembly to ultimately build self-replicating objects?</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#666666"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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