Yair Shokef

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A day full of inspiring talks, posters, and scientific exchange.
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And paper #2 here: Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials doi.org/10.1103/mvrj...

Read open access paper #1 here: Breaking mechanical holography in combinatorial metamaterials doi.org/10.1103/wtgy...

Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials combined rigorous mathematical analysis with Yotam Feldman and Guy Cohen’s ability to translate our questions on mechanical incompatibility within the metamaterial to a constraint satisfaction problem.

Breaking Mechanical Holography in Combinatorial Metamaterials started from Naomi Spiro’s undergraduate summer project and Ofri Palti’s highschool final project. Breaking the link between the lattice's boundary & inside allows to design deformation texture on the entire boundary.

Our two sister papers on combinatorial metamaterials published today in @physrevresearch.bsky.social, a result of a fantastic SKCM2 collaboration with Chaviva Sirote-Katz at Tel Aviv and Tamás Kálmán at Tokyo shokef.tau.ac.il

📢 Save the date! BioSoft Day #6.
June 29, 2025 at the Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv .
A full day of science at the physics–biology interface.
🎟️ Free with registration by June 14.
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Functionality via Nonlinearities III - Waves and Computing 8:00 am – 11:00 am, Tuesday March 18, Session MAR-F63, Anaheim Hilton, Huntington BC (Level 4)

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Nothing like posting on the arXiv during the APS March Meeting the paper that you're about to present in your talk:
Combinatorial Design of Floppy Modes and Frustrated Loops in Metamaterials (fun work with Wenfeng Liu, Tomer Sigalov & Corentin Coulais) arxiv.org/abs/2503.12867

📣 Who will you nominate for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship?

Nominate an early-career researcher making significant contributions to the soft matter field.

Deadline 30th April 2025.

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and more...

more work in progress..

and ending the first day with lively discussions over our real research posters

then preparing posters on the spot and presenting them to everyone...

randomly breaking up into groups and coming up with new research ideas and connections...

Great start of @biosofttau.bsky.social annual retreat, with exciting talk...

We're excited to annouce this year's winners of the Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics: Ariel Amir (Weizmann), Arvind Murugan (Chicago), and Julien Tailleur (MIT)
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What do you know and think of the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings?
(aka science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators by John Ioannidis)

It was a pleasure to host Uri Raviv from
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social who told us about Structure and Dynamics of Tubulin Self Organization

The Magic of Mechanical Metamaterials: How Tiny Blocks Shape Big Ideas What if we could design materials that move, bend, and respond to forces in ways nature never intended? Sounds like science fiction, right? But it’s real, and it’s all thanks to something called mecha...

Check out this nice piece yaelha48.wixsite.com/mind2machine... by Yael Hanein describing our recent paper:
Breaking mechanical holography in combinatorial metamaterials
C. Sirote-Katz, O. Palti, N. Spiro, T. Kálmán, and Y. Shokef
arxiv.org/abs/2411.15760

3 weeks left to apply for the Azrieli Postdoc Fellowship. Contact me (or any other Israeli PI) if you're looking for a sponsor
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PhD/MSc student? Apply now for 3-6 months of research at Tel Aviv University
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2) Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials – for most block types we can position defects anywhere we want in 2D and in 3D, but with some we can only get any topology of knotted defect lines, but not any geometry
arxiv.org/abs/2412.01227

Excited to share TWO new preprints:
1) Breaking Mechanical Holography in Combinatorial Metamaterials - building blocks that don't induce holographic order allow to build lots of mechanially compatible metamaterials and to design the texture (almost) on their entire boundary
arxiv.org/abs/2411.15760

Check out the 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics - $50,000 to young researcher(s) under the age of 45 for exceptional achievements and contributions to biophysics - Nomination deadline: December 31, 2024 @TelAvivUni english.tau.ac.il/TAU_biophysics