<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:small;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)">**</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Apologies for cross-posting</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> **<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear All, </div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">The Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (</font><a href="https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/robotics-neural-systems" title="https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/robotics-neural-systems" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">CRNS</font></a><font color="#000000">) at Plymouth University is pleased to announce the talk of </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dr. Alessandra Sciutti</b><font color="#000000"> from the </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Italian Institute of Technology</b><font color="#000000"> (IIT) on Wednesday February 2</font><sup style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">nd</sup><font color="#000000"> at </font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:sans-serif"><font color="#000000">11:00 am - 12:30 pm (GMT)</font><font color="#333333"> </font></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#333333">over </font><b><font color="#000000">Zoom</font></b></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#333333">. </font><font color="#000000">Registration</font><font color="#333333"> is</font><b><font color="#333333"> </font><font color="#000000">required</font></b><font color="#333333"> </font><font color="#000000">and free:</font><font color="#333333"> </font><font color="#000000"><a href="https://docs.google.c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n:baseline">Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)</span></p><p style="color:inherit;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics </span></p><p style="color:inherit;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Room B332, Portland Square, Drake Circus, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">PL4 8AA</span></span></p><p style="color:inherit;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p style="color:inherit;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">University of Plymouth, UK</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>