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SUMMARY:Inverse problems in soft and active matter
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium \nSpeaker: L. Mahadevan\, Harvard \nTitle: Inverse problems in soft and active matter \nAbstract: How can one grow a face or a flower from a flat sheet? Fold a sheet into an origami pattern? Control phase separation? Transport a drop of active matter?  Steer an ant swarm? I will discuss potential answers to some of these inverse problems that unites ideas from optimal control and optimal transport for the steering of particles and fields.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-3226/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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