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Past Colloquia

2024

3/5/24
James Fitzgerald, Northwestern University 
Bridging Theoretical Neuroscience and Neural Data Science with Simple Models

2/27/24
Snezhana Abarzhi, University Western Australia
Interface Dynamics in Ideal and Realistic Fluids

2/13/24
Geoff Vallis, Exeter
Rainy-Bénard Convection: An Idealization of a Moist Atmosphere

2/06/24
Yue Yu, Lehigh University
Nonlocal Operator is All You Need

1/23/24
Albane Thery, University of Pennsylvania
Building Models For Swimmers in Complex and Confined Environments

2023

11/28/23
Milo Lin, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mathematics of Life Series: Thermodynamic Limits of Molecular Computation

11/14/23
Niall Mangan and Katelyn Leisman, Northwestern University
Flushed with Insights: The Promising Potential of Poop-Based Testing for Public Health

11/7/23
Thierry Mora, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Mathematics of Life Series: Statistical Mechanics of Collective Behavior

10/31/23
Sky Nicholson, Northwestern University 
How to Quantify Rare-Events From Microscopic Kinetics Using Tensor Networks

10/17/23
Sam Kriegman, Northwestern University
Instant Evolution: Novel Robots from Scratch in Seconds

10/10/23
Aleksandra Walczak, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Mathematics of Life series: Formation of immune repertoire

10/3/23
Christine Heitsch, Georgia Institute of Technology
How Can Discrete Mathematics Improve RNA Folding Predictions

5/23/23
Linda Petzold, University of California Santa Barbara
Interpretable Polynomial Neural ODEs - Reiss Lecture

5/22/23
Linda Petzold, University of California Santa Barbara
The Roles and Consequences of Randomness in Biological Systems - Reiss Lecture

5/16/23
Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago
Fast jet stream winds get faster under climate change

5/9/23
Sung Ha Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Identifying Differential Equations with Numerical Methods: Time Evolution, Subspace Pursuit and Weak Form

5/2/23
Osman Basaran, Purdue University
Pinch-off Singularities and Effects of Surface Viscosity on Breakup of Liquid Threads

4/18/23
Gwynn Elfring, University of British Colombia
Active matter in inhomogeneous environments

4/11/23
Simone Bianco, Altos Labs - Bay Area Institute of Science
Computer-Aided Design of Synthetic Cells

4/4/23
Eva Kanso, University of Southern California
Flow Physics Creates Cooperative and Selfish Spatial Patterns in Groups of Flapping Swimmers

2/28/23
Danny Wells, Santa Ana Bio 
Single Cell Spatial Transcriptomics to Accelerate Systems Immunology

2/21/23
David Bortz, University of Colorado
Data-Driven Modeling and Learning Using the Weak Form

2/7/23
Keaton Burns, MIT
Solving Partial Differential Equations Exactly Over Polynomials 

1/31/23
Richard Braun, University of Delaware
Semi-automated Tear Breakup Detection and Modeling on the Ocular Surface 

2022

11/29/2022
V. Barranca, Swarthmore
Reconstruction of Neuronal Network Connectivity and Rivalrous Percepts Via Compressive Sensing of Network Dynamics

11/15/2022
Eric Hester, UCLA
How Iceberg Geometry Affects Melting: A Multiphase Fluids Case Study

11/8/2022
C. Huepe, Northwestern
Phases and self-organization in active elastic systems

10/10/2022
Becca Thomases, UC Davis
Microorganism Locomotion in Viscoelastic Fluids

5/23/2022
Tanim Islam, LLNL
HED Simulations of a NIF shot with ARES

5/9/2022
Harishankar Manikantan, UC Davis
Fluid dynamics of diological membranes: tunable aggregation and nontrivial rheology

5/3/2022
Steve Strogatz, Cornell University
Networks of Oscillators that Synchronize Themselves

5/2/2022
Steve Strogatz, Cornell University
Writing About Math for the New York Times 

4/25/2022
Christel Hohenegger, University of Utah
Confinement Effects for Steady-Streaming

This event will be held in person, and will be simultaneously broadcast via Zoom. To join the Zoom, click here.

4/18/2022
Shreyas Mandre, University of Warwick, UK
Functional Interpretation for Transverse Arches of Human Foot

This event will be held in person, and will be simultaneously broadcast via Zoom. To join the Zoom, click here.

2/15/2022
Varda Hagh, University of Chicago
Systematic Manipulation of Disorder for Extraordinary Functionality in Materials

2/14/2022
Maria Delyanni, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Large Deflections of Inextensible Beams and Plates

2/7/2022
Leroy Jia, Flatiron
Axisymmetric Membranes with Edges Under External Force: Buckling, Minimal Surfaces, and Tethers

1/31/2022
Sujit Datta, Princeton University
Life in a Tight Spot: How Bacteria Swim, Disperse, and Grow in Crowded Spaces

1/24/2022
Jin Tae Kim and John Rogers, Northwestern University
Three-dimensional Electronic Microfliers Inspired by Wind-Dispersed Seeds

2021

11/29/2021 
Sophie Marbach, New York University
Harvesting Fluctuations for Transport at the Nanoscale

11/15/2021 
Amit Bose, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Towards a Neural and Mathematical Understanding of How We Generate and Keep a Musical Beat

11/9/2021 
Chris Rycroft, Harvard University
The Reference Map Technique for Simulating Complex Materials and Multi-Body Interactions

11/1/2021 
Ivan C. Christov, Purdue University
Nonlinear Dynamics of Magnetic Fluid Interfaces

10/25/2021 
Michael Loewenberg, Yale University
A Lubrication Theory for Permeable Particles

10/11/2021 
Chad Topaz, Williams College
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Social Justice

10/4/2021 
Stephen H. Davis Lecture: Harry Swinney, University of Texas at Austin
Crystallization in a Periodically Perturbed Random Granular Medium

5/24/2021 
Ron Milo, Weizmann Institute of Science
Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO2

5/20/2021 
Julio M. Ottino, Northwestern University
Prediction, Understanding, and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: A View Through the Window of Mixing 

5/17/2021 
Eric Keaveny, Imperial College London
Coordinated Motion of Active Filaments

5/10/2021 
Ermin Wei, Northwestern University
Robust and Flexible Distributed Optimization Algorithms for Networked Systems

5/3/2021 
Arezoo Ardekani, Purdue University
Hydrodynamics-Mediated Trapping of Microbes

4/26/2021 
Peter Thomas, Case Western Reserve University
Neural Circuitry for Multilayered Motor Control

4/12/2021 
Alexis Kaminski, UC Berkeley
Scouring and Overturning in Asymmetric Stratified Shear Instabilities

3/8/2021 
Michal Zochowski, University of Michigan
From Neuromodulation, Via Network Dynamics, to Memory Consolidation During Sleep

3/1/2021 
Paul Atzberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
Surface Fluctuating Hydrodynamic Methods for Soft Materials with Fluid-Structure Interactions within Curved Fluid Interfaces

2/22/2021 
Heather Zinn Brooks, Harvey Mudd College
Bounded-Confidence Models for Opinion Dynamics on Online Social Networks

2/8/2021 
Istvan Kovacs, Northwestern University
Emergence of Functional Interactions in Complex Systems

2/1/2021 
Ian Tobasco, University of Illinois at Chicago
Simple Rules for the Wrinkle Patterns of Confined Elastic Shells

1/25/2021 
Daniel Forger, University of Michigan
The Mathematics of the Wearable Revolution, with Applications to Circadian Rhythms and COVID Detection

1/11/2021 
Geoff Vasil, University of Sydney
The Mechanics of a Large Pendulum Chain

2020

11/23/2020 
Dan Wilson, University of Tennessee
Analysis of Limit Cycle Oscillators Far Beyond the Weakly Perturbed Paradigm

11/9/2020 
Saverio E. Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Active Matter Invasion of a Viscous Fluid and a No-Flow Theorem

11/2/2020 
Zachary Kilpatrick, University of Colorado Boulder
Heterogeneity Improves Speed and Accuracy in Social Networks

10/19/2020 
Jessica Conway, Penn State University
HIV Viral Rebound Heterogeneity Following Treatment Interruption

6/9/2020
Eve Armstrong, New York Institute of Technology
Identifying the Measurements Required to Estimate Rates of COVID-19 Transmission, Infection, and Detection, Using Variational Data Assimilation

3/2/2020 
Rennie Mirollo, Boston College
Is the Ott-Antonsen Manifold Attracting?

2/24/2020 
Alan Lindsay, The University of Notre Dame
The Mathematics of Diffusive Signaling and the Role of Receptor Clustering in Chemoreception

2/17/2020 
Madhav Mani, Northwestern University
Mathematical Approaches to Studying the Patterns of Organisms

2/10/2020 
Takashi Nishikawa, Northwestern University
Converse Symmetry Breaking: Theory and Experiment

2/3/2020 
Alexei Koulakov, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Formation of Neuronal Connectivity: Nature versus Nurture

1/27/2020 
Jörn Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Symmetry Breaking and Pattern Formation in Soft Matter and Active Fluids

1/13/2020 
Vilas Menon, Columbia University
Exploring the Molecular State Space of Cells in the Brain

1/6/2020
Eric Dufresne, ETH Zurich
Growing Droplets in Cells and Gels

2019

12/2/19
Kresimir Josic, The University of Houston

11/18/19 
Helen Moore, Applied BioMath
Dynamical Systems Modeling in the Biopharm Industry

11/11/2019 
Dezhe Jin, Penn State
Self-organized Wiring of a Neuronal Network from Precise Timing in Songbird

11/4/19 
Alla Borisyuk, The University of Utah
Diffusion with Recharging Traps and the Effect of Astrocytes in Neuronal Networks

10/7/2019 
Nick Cogan, Florida State University
Dynamics of the Plant Pathogen Xylella fastidiosa : Models, Data and Sensitivity Analysis

6/3/2019 
James Swan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Large Scale Simulation of Colloidal Hydrodynamics: Heterogenous Particles, Structures and Flow Patterns

4/8/2019 
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Becoming What You Smell: Adaptive Sensing and Efficient Coding in the Olfactory System

2/25/2019 
Tong Gao, Michigan State University
Probing Non-Equilibrium Fluids: Self-Assembly, Collective Dynamics, and Autonomous Machine

2/11/2019 
Grant Rotskoff, New York University
Neural Networks as Interacting Particle Systems: Understanding Global Convergence of Parameter Optimization Dynamics

1/24/2019 
Susanne Horn, UCLA
Advanced Models of Thermal Convection: A Window Into Coherent Structures and Geophysical Turbulence

1/22/2019 
William Holmes, Vanderbilt University
Design Principles of Cellular and Developmental Systems

1/17/2019 
Kyle Parfrey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Simulating Relativistic Astoplasmas from Microphysics to Global Dynamics

1/14/2019 
Henrik Ronellenfitsch, MIT
Optimal Form and Function

1/10/2019 
Andrew Mugler, Purdue University
Mathematical Modeling of Cell-Cell Communication and Collective Behavior

1/7/2019
Gal Mishne, Yale University
Local Geometric Spectral Data Analysis

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2018

12/10/2018
Tom Chou, UCLA
Dynamics of structured populations: From aging demographics to cell size control

11/26/2018
Qiong Yang, University of Michigan
From Molecules to Development: Understanding How Biological Oscillators Function and Coordinate

11/19/2018
Suri Vaikuntanathan, University of Chicago
Organization and self-assembly far from equilibrium: Dissipation induced transitions in membranes and materials

11/5/2018
Rama Ranganathan, University of Chicago
Evolutionary Design of Proteins

10/29/2018
Tandy Warnow, UIUIC
NJMerge: A New Divide-and-Conquer Method for Scaling Phylogeny Estimation to Large Datasets

10/22/2018
Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson
Principles of Sensory Adaptation

10/8/2018
Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University (Mechanical Engineering)
Modeling Segregation in Granular Flows

6/11/2018 (4 PM to 5 PM)
Dinshaw Balsara, University of Notre Dame
Bringing Astrophysics Down to Earth: The Development of a New Generation of High-Accuracy Methods for Computational Electrodynamics

6/11/2018 (2 PM to 3 PM)
Aleksandra Shirman, University of California San Diego
Estimation of Model Parameters in Non-Linear Systems Through Statistical Data Assimilation Methods

6/4/2018
David Saintillan, University of California San Diego
From Bacteria to Chromosomes Hydrodynamic Self-organization of Biological Active Matter

5/21/2018
Paul Francois, McGill University
Untangling the Hairball of Immune Recognition Networks

4/30/2018
Robert Deegan, University of Michigan
Photoelectrowetting

4/23/2018
Joseph Tien, Ohio State University
Disease Spread on Networks: Integrating Structure and Dynamics

4/16/2018
Jeffrey Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building Microbial Communities from the Bottom Up

4/10/2018 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 2)
Professor Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge
Upside-Down and Inside-Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding

4/9/2018 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 1)
Professor Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge
Fluid Mechanics at the Scale of the Cell

4/2/2018
David Williams, Allen Institute for Cell Science
Cells of Many Structures: Integrating Cell Organization with Conditional Models

3/5/2018
Eric Keaveny, Imperial College London
Linking the Micro- and Macro-scales in Populations of Swimming Cells

2/26/2018
Alex Snezhko, Argonnne National Laboratory
Emergent Dynamics in Active Spinner Materials

2/19/2018
Cristian Huepe, Northwestern University
Structure and Dynamics of Modular Hierarchical Networks

2/12/2018
Harish Bhat, University of California, Merced
Bbuilding Predictive Models from Data: Examples from Sports and Public Health

2/5/2018
Thom Cleland, Cornell University
Algorithms of the Early Olfactory System

1/29/2018
Jens Eggers, University of Bristol
Two Problems Involving Breakup of a Liquid Film

1/22/2018
Hyejin Youn, Northwestern University
Scaling in Physics, Biology, Cities, and Beyond

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2017

11/27/17
Yannis Kevrekidis, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus, Princeton
No equations, no variables, no parameters, no space and no time: Data and Machine Learning In Modeling Complex Systems

11/20/17                    
Nir Gavish, PhD, Israel Institute of Technology
A Model of Highly Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions

11/6/17
Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
Model Hierarchies for Data Analysis in Fluid Dynamics

10/30/17
Michael Rust, PhD, University of Chicago
Demand for High Protein Copy Number Can Favor Timers Over Clocks in Bacteria

10/23/17
Ashok Litwin Kumar, PhD, Columbia University
Optimal Degrees of Synaptic Connectivity

10/2/2017
Sam Barnett, PhD, Barnett Capital, Ltd.
Engaged Minds Think Alike: Measuring Neural Similarity & Dynamic Audiovisual Stimuli

9/25/2017
Dr. Lauren Childs, Virginia Tech
Simulating Within-Vector Generation of the Malaria Parasite Diversity

6/5/2017
Hans Breiter, MD, Northwestern University
Feynman Lawfulness in Human Pleasure and Aversion, and its Implications for a Quantitative Model of Emotion

5/16/2017 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 2)
Dr. John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology
The "Superfluid-Like" Behavior of Active Matter

5/15/2017 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 1)
Dr. John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology
The Swim Pressure of Active Matter


5/8/2017
Daniel Poll, University of Houston
Stochastic Dynamics in Bump Attractor Models of Spatial Working Memory

4/17/2017
Dr. Robert Rosenbaum, University of Notre Dame
Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Computations in Recurrent Neuronal Networks

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2016

5/23/16
Professor Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University
The maximally crumpled state: crumpling dynamics and the evolution of damage networks

5/16/16
Dr. Ian Griffiths, University of Oxford
How magnets and mathematics can help solve the current water crisis

5/10/16
Professor L. Mahedevan, Harvard University (Reiss Lectures)
Programming Shape: geometry, physics and engineering

5/9/16
Professor L. Mahadevan, Harvard University (Reiss Lectures)
Predicting Shape: geometry, physics and biology

5/2/16
Professor Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
Freezing of solutions and colloidal suspensions

4/25/16
Dr. Asghar Esmaeeli, Southern Illinois University
Computational Simulations of Electrohydrodynamics of Suspensions of Liquid Drops

4/18/16
Professor Seppe Kuehn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Determinism and Contingency in Microbial Communities

4/11/16
Dr. Douglas Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Sparsity and compressed coding in neuronal networks

4/4/16
Professor Ernest Barreto, George Mason University
Collective Dynamics in Populations of Oscillators

3/7/16
Professor Randy LeVeque, University of Washington
Numerical Modeling of Tsunamis and Other Geohazards

2/22/2016
Dr. Laura Stricker, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (Germany)
Numerical study of artificial microswimmers propelled by Marangoni flow

1/25/16
Dr. Mattia Gazzola, Harvard University
Inverse Design of Swimming Dynamics

1/21/16
Dr. Shravan Veerapaneni, University of Michigan
Fast Algorithms for Particulate Flows

1/14/16
Dr. Brian Camley, University of California, San Diego
Emergent Collective Chemotaxis Without Single-Cell Gradient Sensing

1/11/16
Dr. Enkeleida Lushi,  Brown University
Active Micro-Particles in Free Space and Confinement

1/7/16
Dr. Sabetta Matsumoto, Harvard University
Biomimetic 4D Printing

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2015

12/9/15
Dr. Ivana Bozic, Harvard University
Stochastic evolutionary modeling of cancer development and resistance to treatment

12/7/15
Dr. Wenxiao Pan, The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mesoscale Modeling of Complex Fluids and Materials

11/30/15
Professor Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Courant Institute, New York University
Kinetics of Particles with Short-ranged Interactions

11/16/15
Professor Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Understanding the Cancer Field Effect

11/9/15
Professor Karin Leiderman, University of California, Merced
Mathematical Modeling of Thrombus Formation Under Flow

11/2/15
Dr. Lucy Colwell, University of Cambridge
Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function: Modeling with Random Matrix Theory

10/26/15
Professor Alexander Levine, University of California, Los Angeles
Nonequilibrium Semiflexible Network and the Mechanics of the Cell

10/19/15
Professor Agnese Seminara, Harvard University and University of Nice (France)
Olfactory based navigation in mice

10/12/15
Professor Ariel Amir, Harvard University
Simultaneous regulation of cell size and chromosome replication in bacteria

10/5/15
Professor Raissa D'Souza, University of California, Davis
Steering and controlling systems of interdependent networks

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2015

6/1/15
Professor Zhangli Peng of the University of Notre Dame
"Multiscale Modeling in Cell/Tissue Mechanics and Related Diseases"

5/28/15
Eric Siero of Leiden University, Mathematical Institute - Thursday, 10:00am
"Striped pattern selection by advective reaction-diffusion systems: Resilience of banded vegetation on slopes"

5/12/15
Reiss Lecture: Professor Detlef Lohse of the University of Twente (Netherlands)
"The Phase Space of Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow"

5/11/15
Reiss Lecture: Professor Detlef Lohse of the University of Twente (Netherlands)
"Surface Nanobubbles and Nanodroplets: The Big Picture"

5/4/15
Professor Michelle Girvan of the University of Maryland
"Modeling the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks: Insights and Challenges"

5/4/15
Professor Ned S. Wingreen of Princeton University - 11:15am
"Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't?"

4/27/15
Professor Vinothan Manoharan of Harvard University
"How does a virus self-assemble?"

4/20/15
Professor Joshua Shaevitz of Princeton University
"Phases and Phase Transitions in the Collective Motility of the Social Bacterium Myxococcus Xanthus"

4/13/15
Professor Ka-Kit Tung of the University of Washington
"Why has global warming paused for the past 15 years?"

4/6/15
Professor Petia Vlahovska of Brown University
"Complex fluid interfaces in electric fields: belted drops, patchy membranes and vesicle drums"

3/30/15
Professor Sophie Denève of École Normale Supérieure (France)
"Efficient Coding in Balanced Neural Networks"

3/9/15
Dr. Alex Roxin of Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
"Synchrony and Firing Rate in Neuronal Networks: An Exact Meanfield Approach"

3/2/15
Professor Horacio Rotstein of New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Frequency Preference Response to Oscillatory Inputs in Neuronal Models: A Geometric Approach to Subthreshold Resonance"

2/16/15
Professor Jané Kondev of Brandeis University
"Building a Proportional Cell: How Cells Control the Size of Their Organelles"

2/12/15
Dr. Wu Min of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris 
"Modeling of Growths: from Nutrient Limitation to Elastic Fibers"
Online colloquium, 5 p.m. viewing in Tech A230

2/2/15
Dr. Alexander Wray of Imperial College London
"Electrostatically-Controlled Film Dynamics in Curved Geometries"

1/26/15
Dr. Kang-Ling Liao of Mathematical Biosciences Institute (OSU)
"A Mathematical Model for the Anti-PD-1 and IL-27 Drugs in Cancer Treatment"

1/15/15
Dr. Anand Oza of Courant Institute (NYU) - Thursday, 11:15am 
"A Trajectory Equation for Walking Droplets: Hydrodynamic Pilot-Wave Theory" 

1/12/15
Dr. Hassan Masoud of Courant Institute (NYU) and Princeton University
"Fluid-Structure Interactions from Nano- to Macro-Scale, from Engineering to Biology to Medicine"

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2014

12/1/14
Dr. Enkeleida Lushi of Brown University and Courant Institute (NYU)
"Fluid Flows Created by Swimming Bacteria Drive Self-Organization"

11/17/14
Professor Oskar Hallatschek of the University of California, Berkeley
"The Role of Noise in the Dynamics of Evolution: The Evolutionary Importance of Being Round"

11/10/14
Dr. Ira Schwartz of the US Naval Research Laboratory
"Predicting epidemic rare events: A dynamical systems perspective of disease extinction and control"

11/3/14
Professor Andreas Waechter of Northwestern University (IEMS)
"A Derivative-Free Method for Solving Nonlinear Optimization Problems with Deterministic Noise"

11/01/14
Presented by Random Walk Trading
"Option Strategies for Profit in the Real World" (Special Saturday Seminar)

10/27/14
Professor Martin Golubitsky of Ohio State University
"Patterns of Synchrony: From Animal Gaits to Binocular Rivalry"

10/20/14
Professor Nathan Kutz of the University of Washington
"Sparsity and Equation-Free Methods for Complex Systems"

10/13/14
Professor Rolf Ryham of Fordham University
"Control of Lipidic Pore Dynamics by Aqueous Viscosity"

9/29/14
Dr. Cristián Huepe Minoletti of Labo Labs
"Elasticity-based mechanism for collective motion in natural and artificial swarms" 

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