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DESCRIPTION:Title: Building with fluids: a lazy approach to fabrication\n\n
 Abstract :\n\nIn nature\, organized arrays of elements arise spontaneously
  from the interactions between their component parts\, e.g. reaction-diffu
 sion problems\, clustering colloidal particles and granular media\, wrinkl
 ing surfaces\, propagating cracks and flowing liquids. In the wake of biom
 imicry\, I will discuss several strategies aiming to harness mechanical in
 stabilities in flowing liquids\, e.g. coiling\, droplet formation\, digita
 tion\, drainage\, capillary suction\, and use the regular shapes and unive
 rsally self-organized patterns they naturally produce as templates for mat
 erials design. These flows are 'frozen' as the liquids we use solidify int
 o solids\, e.g.\, through curing\, cooling or evaporation. The shapes and 
 patterns they form are universal and transcend the traditional divisions b
 etween scientific fields or even between living and inert matter. I will s
 how that these similarities result from the mathematical analogies in the 
 rules that govern pattern formation. In turn\, I will demonstrate how to c
 ompose with these rules to augment our manufacturing capabilities\, e.g. i
 n soft robotics.\n
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LOCATION:Room 1104\, Burnside Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B9\, 805 rue
  Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Pierre-Thomas Brun (Princeton University)
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