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Yair Shokef's
Research Group
Yair Shokef's Research Group
Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter
About
We employ theoretical and computational tools to understand the physics of soft matter systems. In such natural as well as designed structures, we often understand pretty well how individual units behave, but the system as a whole exhibits non-trivial emergent phenomena.
Our current research focuses on memory and computing in smart materials, mechanics of living systems, and mechanical metamaterials.
News
October 2024 – Yair gives keynote lecture at the Israel Vacuum Society Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel
October 2024 – New paper in SciPost Physics: Nonequilibrium Probability Currents in Optically-Driven Colloidal Suspensions, Samudrajit Thapa, Daniel Zaretzky, Ron Vatash, Grzegorz Gradziuk, Chase Broedersz, Yair Shokef & Yael Roichman
May 2024 – New paper in Nature Communications: Emergent disorder and mechanical memory in periodic metamaterials, Chaviva Sirote-Katz, Dor Shohat, Carl Merrigan, Yoav Lahini, Cristiano Nisoli & Yair Shokef
April 2024 – Yair gives invited talk at Israel Physical Society Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel
April 2024 – Chaviva wins best poster award at BioSoft Spring Poster Evening, Tel Aviv University
March 2024 – Yair gives invited talk at the Mechanics and Geometry in Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Workshop, Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Israel
March 2024 – Yair gives invited talk at International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter Spring Symposium, Nara, Japan
February 2024 – New paper in PNAS: Bloch oscillations, Landau–Zener transition, and topological phase evolution in an array of coupled pendula, Izhar Neder, Chaviva Sirote-Katz, Meital Geva, Yoav Lahini, Roni Ilan & Yair Shokef
February 2024 – New paper in EPJE: Many-body interactions between contracting living cells, Roman Golkov & Yair Shokef
February 2024 – New paper in NJP: Emergent clustering due to quorum sensing interactions in active matter, Samudrajit Thapa, Bat-El Pinchasik & Yair Shokef
August 2023 – New paper in JPCL: Percolation in networks of liquid diodes, Camilla Sammartino, Yair Shokef & Bat-El Pinchasik
July 2023 – Chaviva wins Clore Scholarship
June 2023 – Yair gives invited talk at Frontiers in Artificial Spin Ice Conference, Lenzburg, Switzerland
June 2023 – Naomi Spiro joins us as a visiting undergraduate student from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Welcome Naomi!
May 2023 – We co-organized the CECAM Workshop on Pathways, Memory, and Emergent Computation in Nonequilibrium Systems, Sde Boker, Israel
April 2023 – Colin Meulblok joins us as a visiting PhD student from Leiden University, Netherlands. Welcome Colin!
February 2023 – Yair gives invited talk at Statistical Mechanics Day, Weizmann Institute, Israel
January 2023 – Priyanka joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome Priyanka!
December 2022 – Yair gives invited talk at Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Symposium, Technion, Israel
November 2022 – Yair gives invited talk and Chaviva contributed talk at the Winter School on Driven Amorphous Materials, Weizmann Institute, Israel
October 2022 – Yair gives invited talk at EUROMECH Colloquium Unification of Microsystems and Metamaterials for New Generation Engineering Solutions, Milan, Italy
June 2023 – We co-organize the CECAM Workshop Computations and Applications of Geometrical and Topological Properties of Liquid Crystals, Tel Aviv, Israel
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