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BNC Faculty Seminar Series: Nik Chawla, Ransburg Professor in Materials Engineering
by Turner, Jaime J 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Title: Four Dimensional (4D) Materials Science: Probing Microstructural Evolution of Materials in Real-Time Join Zoom Meeting https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91754078808 Meeting ID: 917 5407 8808 One tap mobile +13017158592,,91754078808# US (Washington DC) 13126266799,,91754078808# +US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 917 5407 8808 Find your local number: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/u/aduYIudBWn

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Webinar by Prof. Nikhil Shukla, UVa, Feb 18, 10AM-11AM
by Gupta, Sumeet Kumar 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Hello It is my great pleasure to host Prof. Nikhil Shukla (University of Virginia) for his talk in the ECE Seminar Series. The details are below and attached. Hope to see you in the seminar. Thanks Sumeet When: February 18, 2021 (Thursday), 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (ET) Where: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/3164232249 Title: Solving combinatorial optimization using oscillator-based dynamical systems Abstract: Modern information processing relies largely on digital computers. However, a large class of combinatorial optimization problems, with extensive practical applications, are still considered intractable to solve on a traditional digital platform. Solving such problems typically entails exponentially increasing computing resources (time, memory etc.) as the problem sizes increase, and practical problems become unmanageable without the use of enormous, energy-guzzling computing resources. Consequently, overcoming this limitation has motivated the quest to find efficient beyond-digital computing fabrics. In this talk, I will describe one such potentially promising paradigm based on analog dynamical systems of electronic oscillators. The talk will first explore how oscillator systems and their dynamics can be engineered to solve different computational models, relevant to computing various flavors of combinatorial optimization problems. Along this direction, I will describe some of our recent results on solving problems such as Maximum Cut, Maximum Independent Set, and Satisfiability using oscillator networks. Subsequently, I will explore CMOS and beyond-CMOS hardware fabrics that can facilitate the energy- and area-efficient implementation of the oscillator hardware platform. Finally, I will address some of the current challenges and performance trade-offs of this paradigm, and describe possible pathways to overcoming them. Speaker Bio: Nikhil Shukla is currently an assistant professor at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and the department of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. Nikhil’s research interests lie in co-designing new devices, circuits, and computational models to make computing more efficient. He has authored/co-authored over 50 journal and conference papers and has received the best paper award from IEEE TMSCS in 2017. He has also served on the technical program committee for Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2020 and 2021.

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BNC Faculty Seminar Series: Letian Dou
by Turner, Jaime J 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Title: Organic-Perovskite Hybrid Quantum Wells, Heterostructure, and Optoelectronics Join Zoom Meeting https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91754078808 Meeting ID: 917 5407 8808 One tap mobile +13017158592,,91754078808# US (Washington DC) 13126266799,,91754078808# +US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 917 5407 8808 Find your local number: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/u/aduYIudBWn

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Webinar by Prof. Lane Martin UC Berkeley/LBNL: Feb 11 10AM-11AM
by Gupta, Sumeet Kumar 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hello It is my great pleasure to host Prof. Lane Martin (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) for his talk in the ECE Seminar Series. The details are below and attached. Please feel free to forward to other folks at Purdue, as you deem fit. Hope to see you in the seminar. Thanks Sumeet When: February 11, 2021 (Thursday), 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (ET) Where: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/3164232249 Title: Ferroic Complex Oxides for Next-Generation Devices Abstract: Complex-oxide materials possess a range of interesting properties and phenomena that make them candidates for next-generation devices and applications. But before these materials can be integrated into state-of-the-art devices, it is important to understand how to control and engineer their response in a deterministic manner. In this talk, we will discuss some of the state-of-the-art science, engineering, and utilization of complex ferroic materials and their potential for emergent order and phenomena that can enable new device function. We will explore the role of the epitaxial thin-film growth process and the use of epitaxial constraints to engineer a range of systems with special attention to ferroelectric and relaxor materials. In recent years, the use of epitaxial strain has enabled the production of model versions of these complicated materials and the subsequent deterministic study of field-dependent response. Here, we will investigate the potential of ferroelectric materials for non-volatile, ultra-low voltage memory and logic applications, the realization of multi-state/neuromorphic function, and even high energy density capacitive energy storage applications. We will try to introduce the listener to these complex materials and their potential for new applications – in effect working to motivate device engineers to explore these materials. The discussion will range from the development of fundamental understanding of the physics that lies at the heart of the observed effects, to an illustration of routes to manipulate and control these effects, to the demonstration of rudimentary solid-state devices based on these materials. Speaker Bio: Professor Lane W. Martin is a Professor and Vice/Associate Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and a Faculty Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Lane received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Dec. 2003 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2006 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2009, Lane served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantum Materials Program, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 2009 to 2014, Lane was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Lane returned to the University of California, Berkeley as an Associate Professor from 2014-2018. He was promoted to Full Professor in July 2018 and named Associate Chair in Aug. 2018. Lane has published >220 papers, his work has been cited >19,000 times (resulting in an h-index = 60; i10-index = 164), and he has given ~150 invited/plenary/keynote talks during his career. Lane’s work has garnered a number of awards including: the IEEE-Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award, the 2020-2021 Defense Science Study Group, multiple-time Highly Cited Researcher (ranked in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in Web of Science), the Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society (2016), the American Association for Crystal Growth (AACG) Young Author Award (2015), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2014), the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2013), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012), the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award (2010), and others. Lane’s contributions to physical and materials science are broad reaching, but his focus is on advancing the synthesis, characterization, and utilization of emergent function (be that electronic, ferroic, multiferroic, etc.) in complex oxides. Lane applies innovative synthesis of highly controlled, epitaxial thin-film materials with special attention to accessing new states of matter, uses growth and epitaxy to access new insights about foundational materials physics, and pushes the edge of material response via strain, defect, and interfacial engineering. Lane embraces cross-disciplinary, collaborative research and leverages it to drive innovation.

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REMINDER: BNC Faculty Seminar Series: Speaker - Yi Xie - TODAY | Feb 4th | 12noon | via Zoom
by Turner, Jaime J 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Reminder: BNC Faculty Seminar TODAY @ 12:00noon. [cid:image001.jpg@01D6FAD3.86B969F0] The BNC Faculty Seminar Series is designed to provide faculty a platform to present an overview of their research and the opportunity for collaborative discussion with other BNC faculty and researchers across six colleges and 15 academic units. Yi Xie Assistant Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering February 4th, 2021 | 12:00pm Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91754078808 Title: Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems Abstract: One of the primary public concerns in the use of nuclear energy is to protect the public and environment from the potential release of radionuclides during normal and abnormal operations of the reactors and radioactive waste dry storage systems. The safety assessment of nuclear reactors and dry storage systems requires a mechanistic-level understanding about the thermodynamics, chemistry, and corrosion of radionuclides in the fuel, coolant, and structural materials. Each type of reactor designs must address unique material and engineering challenges, including high temperature operation, radioactive fluids, complex chemistry that can influence material degradation. The speaker will present the overview of the past and current research projects regarding degradation of structural materials and fuels in nuclear systems. The projects aim at understanding degradation mechanisms, relations between chemistry, microstructure and property, lifetime predictions of nuclear infrastructures, by conducting accelerated degradation studies under controlled and accelerate conditions, in-situ monitoring the component performance and degradation during long-term testing, and exploring alternative materials and structural enhancements. In the end of presentation, the speaker would like to discuss collaborations on projects that de-risk and speed the development of new nuclear technologies by high-throughput experiments and modeling. Bio: Prof. Yi Xie is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University and joined Purdue in June, 2020. She worked as a Research Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the division of advanced nuclear fuel development. She was the inaugural Glenn T. Seaborg Distinguished Postdoctoral Associate at INL, received the Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering at The Ohio State University, and the B.E. degree at University of Science and Technology of China. She has more than 30 journal papers with most of them first-authored. Her research interests include corrosion in nuclear systems, advanced nuclear fuel, sensor materials and technology development, advanced sintering technology development, and geological repositories of radioactive waste. The research focuses on fundamental understanding and engineering applications of nuclear materials. Prof. Xie is interested at materials used on the nuclear reactor and fuel cycling system, exposed to extreme environments under irradiation and complex chemistry conditions. She designed and developed multiple complex test systems for nuclear materials study. She has extensive experience in advanced fuel fabrication, characterization, and development, based on her employment at INL and Purdue University. Upcoming BNC Virtual Faculty Seminars, Spring 2021: Date Faculty Title 1/28/20 Dmitry Zemlyanov, Senior Research Scientist - Surface Science Application, Birck Nanotechnology Center Growth and characterization of 2D materials 2/4/21 Yi Xie, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems 2/11/21 Letian Dou, Assistant Professor, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Organic-Perovskite Hybrid Quantum Wells, Heterostructure, and Optoelectronics 2/18/21 Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor, School of Materials Engineering 4D Materials Science - Probing Microstructural Evolution Through Time-Resolved Imaging 2/25/21 Sorin Adam Matei, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, College of Liberal Arts, Professor of Communication, Brian Lamb School of Communication Team Science - what it is, how it works, and why it does not always work the way we want it to work 3/4/21 David Cappelleri, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Microrobotics Research Highlights 3/11/21 Stylianos Chatzidakis, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering 3/18/21 Reading Day 3/25/21 Tyler Tallman, Assistant Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics 4/1/21 Alex Chortos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering 4/8/21 Ajay Malshe, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering 4/15/21 Suranjan Panigrahi, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology 4/22/21 Alejandro Strachan, Professor of Materials Engineering 4/29/21 Dead Week 5/6/21 Finals Week Thanks! Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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FW: Patty Jischke Center update
by Turner, Jaime J 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear all, Please find below an update on the Patty Jischke Center. Thanks! Jaime Begin forwarded message: From: "Haynes, Kyle E" <kylehaynes(a)purdue.edu<mailto:kylehaynes@purdue.edu>> Subject: Patty Jischke Center update Date: February 3, 2021 at 4:41:39 PM EST To: "Haynes, Kyle E" <kylehaynes(a)purdue.edu<mailto:kylehaynes@purdue.edu>> Dear signers of the Save PJC Open Letter – I am very happy to share with those of you who don’t know already that families of children at the Patty Jischke Center were just sent the press release here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m3865x_HY9Zfy2PCoGqWliKakiww8eyT/view?usp=… Short version - PJC will stay open “indefinitely,” and Purdue will then assess the need for a new daycare center when the pandemic has subsided. So there’s still the question of a replacement center, but for now, PJC is going to stay open! We are very grateful for all your support. It has paid off for the moment. PJC families can rest easy for now knowing they don’t have to find new care for their kids by June 1, and PJC employees’ jobs are safe for the time being. Hooray! Thank you all! Kyle Haynes, on behalf of the organizing group -- Kyle Haynes Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Purdue University 2234 Beering Hall (BRNG) (765) 494 - 8386 www.kyle-haynes.weebly.com/<http://www.kyle-haynes.weebly.com/> I respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous People upon whose traditional homelands Purdue University is built. I honor and appreciate the Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi), Lenape (Delaware), Myaamia (Miami), and Shawnee People, who are the original Indigenous caretakers of this land.

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Childcare on campus - Patty Jischke Center daycare demolition
by Turner, Jaime J 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, As some of you may have heard from your school or department, there is a recent article<https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2021/Q1/purdue,-kinder…> in Purdue Today about the closure of the Patty Jischke Early Care and Education Center, effective June 1st. This is one of the three on-campus childcare centers. In 2019 Purdue had announced plans for a replacement facility with higher capacity, but these plans were not explicitly mentioned in this article. Instead, it is mentioned that “the Purdue Research Foundation will embark on a market study on child care needs in the community now and in the future,” causing concerns about the future of this facility. Purdue exponent also published a relevant article<https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_440c2e8d-26c5-5fe4-890f-ef4fd…> yesterday. Childcare is a critical issue for many at Birck and so we wanted to bring this to your attention. In addition, we wanted to let you know that a number of us have signed a letter underlining the importance of quality childcare on campus to our University leadership. You may also want to consider signing the letter here: http://bit.ly/SavePJC2021<https://bowtie.mailbutler.io/tracking/hit/38b9cfad-ea18-4ef4-8e50-e47f67276…>. Best regards, Ali, Zhihong and Sunil

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BNC Faculty Seminar Series: Yi Xie, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
by Turner, Jaime J 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Title: Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems Join Zoom Meeting https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91754078808 Meeting ID: 917 5407 8808 One tap mobile +13017158592,,91754078808# US (Washington DC) 13126266799,,91754078808# +US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 917 5407 8808 Find your local number: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/u/aduYIudBWn

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BNC Faculty Seminar Series: Speaker - Yi Xie - Feb 4th | 12noon | via Zoom
by Turner, Jaime J 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

[cid:image004.jpg@01D685C0.EB336F80] The BNC Faculty Seminar Series is designed to provide faculty a platform to present an overview of their research and the opportunity for collaborative discussion with other BNC faculty and researchers across six colleges and 15 academic units. Yi Xie Assistant Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering February 4th, 2021 | 12:00pm Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91754078808 Title: Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems Abstract: One of the primary public concerns in the use of nuclear energy is to protect the public and environment from the potential release of radionuclides during normal and abnormal operations of the reactors and radioactive waste dry storage systems. The safety assessment of nuclear reactors and dry storage systems requires a mechanistic-level understanding about the thermodynamics, chemistry, and corrosion of radionuclides in the fuel, coolant, and structural materials. Each type of reactor designs must address unique material and engineering challenges, including high temperature operation, radioactive fluids, complex chemistry that can influence material degradation. The speaker will present the overview of the past and current research projects regarding degradation of structural materials and fuels in nuclear systems. The projects aim at understanding degradation mechanisms, relations between chemistry, microstructure and property, lifetime predictions of nuclear infrastructures, by conducting accelerated degradation studies under controlled and accelerate conditions, in-situ monitoring the component performance and degradation during long-term testing, and exploring alternative materials and structural enhancements. In the end of presentation, the speaker would like to discuss collaborations on projects that de-risk and speed the development of new nuclear technologies by high-throughput experiments and modeling. Bio: Prof. Yi Xie is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University and joined Purdue in June, 2020. She worked as a Research Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the division of advanced nuclear fuel development. She was the inaugural Glenn T. Seaborg Distinguished Postdoctoral Associate at INL, received the Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering at The Ohio State University, and the B.E. degree at University of Science and Technology of China. She has more than 30 journal papers with most of them first-authored. Her research interests include corrosion in nuclear systems, advanced nuclear fuel, sensor materials and technology development, advanced sintering technology development, and geological repositories of radioactive waste. The research focuses on fundamental understanding and engineering applications of nuclear materials. Prof. Xie is interested at materials used on the nuclear reactor and fuel cycling system, exposed to extreme environments under irradiation and complex chemistry conditions. She designed and developed multiple complex test systems for nuclear materials study. She has extensive experience in advanced fuel fabrication, characterization, and development, based on her employment at INL and Purdue University. Upcoming BNC Virtual Faculty Seminars, Spring 2021: Date Faculty Title 1/28/20 Dmitry Zemlyanov, Senior Research Scientist - Surface Science Application, Birck Nanotechnology Center Growth and characterization of 2D materials 2/4/21 Yi Xie, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems 2/11/21 Letian Dou, Assistant Professor, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Organic-Perovskite Hybrid Quantum Wells, Heterostructure, and Optoelectronics 2/18/21 Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor, School of Materials Engineering 4D Materials Science - Probing Microstructural Evolution Through Time-Resolved Imaging 2/25/21 Sorin Adam Matei, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, College of Liberal Arts, Professor of Communication, Brian Lamb School of Communication Team Science - what it is, how it works, and why it does not always work the way we want it to work 3/4/21 David Cappelleri, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Microrobotics Research Highlights 3/11/21 Stylianos Chatzidakis, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering 3/18/21 Reading Day 3/25/21 Tyler Tallman, Assistant Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics 4/1/21 Alex Chortos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering 4/8/21 Ajay Malshe, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering 4/15/21 Suranjan Panigrahi, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology 4/22/21 Alejandro Strachan, Professor of Materials Engineering 4/29/21 Dead Week 5/6/21 Finals Week Thanks! Jaime Turner Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center BRK | 1205 W State Street | West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-3509<tel:7654943509> | m: 765-491-3064<tel:7654913064> | jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> [83324AA6]<https://www.purdue.edu/>

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Webinar by Prof. Pramey Upadhyaya, Purdue: Feb 4 10AM-11AM
by Gupta, Sumeet Kumar 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hello It is my great pleasure to announce Prof. Pramey Upadhyaya's talk on February 4, 2021 from 10AM-11AM in the Seminar Series for ECE Faculty and Students. The details are below and attached. Hope to see you there. Thanks Sumeet Zoom Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/3164232249 Title: Hybrid Quantum Spintronics Abstract: Spin degree of freedom has long been the preferred choice in textbooks for explaining both classical and quantum information, for example, encoded in bits and qubits. With the promise of lower-dissipation and longer coherence time offered by the spin, in the recent years, a number of fundamental and technological advances made in the field of spintronics have brought these textbook examples closer to reality. However, thus far, the advances in the classical and the quantum domain have largely occurred independent of each other. In this talk, we will present a new emerging direction of merging these advances to explore new phenomena and devices at the interface of classical and quantum spintronics—a paradigm we refer to as hybrid quantum spintronics. Particularly, taking the example of integrating dynamic excitations of magnets with quantum spins hosted in solid state platforms, we will demonstrate how hybrid quantum spintronics open possibilities for solving the challenge of developing: (a) local and coherent control fields for spin-qubit-based quantum applications, and (b) sensitive, nanoscale, and non-invasive quantum probes for sensing electric fields and material properties for next-generation micro/nanoelectronics. Speaker Bio: Pramey Upadhyaya is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue University. Before joining Purdue, Pramey was a postdoctoral scholar in the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California Los Angeles. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2009, and the master’s and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering department from the University of California Los Angeles, USA, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His research has explored the theory of classical and quantum spintronic phenomenon and their device applications, enabled by electrical and thermal control of magnetism. Along with his teammates, this work has resulted in one of the earliest demonstrations of current-induced room-temperature skyrmion manipulations, spin torque switching by topological surface states and NV-center probing of spin-caloritronics. These works have resulted in over 30 publications in journals including Science, Physical Review Letters, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials and Nature Communications. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER (2020), Qualcomm Innovation fellowship (2013) and Intel summer fellowship (2011).

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