Yair Shokef

Combinatorial Design of Floppy Modes and Frustrated Loops in Metamaterials A mechanical network of flexible links can be designed to solve a problem in matrix algebra.

Our work in Physical Review Letters: doi.org/10.1103/nqgr...

Metamaterial Performs Computations in a New Way A mechanical network of flexible links can be designed to solve a problem in matrix algebra.

Physics Magazine Item: physics.aps.org/articles/v19...

From knotted LEGO loops, via sequential yield buckling for shock absorbtion, to mechanical computation using frustrated loops... @physicsmagazine.bsky.social featured our paper with Tomer Sigalov, undergraduate student at Tel Aviv University and Wenfeng Liu and Corentin Coulais, University Amsterdam

This week at @biosofttau.bsky.social , aSpecial Mini-Symposium!
We’re honoring the 2025 @telavivuni.bsky.social International Prize in Biophysics.
Featuring Prof. Arvind Murugan (@ucstonecenter.bsky.social )
Wed, Jan 14|11:00–13:00|Kaplun 118, Tel Aviv University
Join us!

Who said a course on Percolation Theory can't include some experiments... Thanks Roi Almog for nicely presenting this paper with Camilla Sammartino & Bat-El Pinchasik on Percolation in Networks of Liquid Diodes doi.org/10.1021/acs....

New preprint with Priyanka and Cristiano Nisoli in which we explore multi-dimensional memory in the topologically constrained disordered Shakti artificial spin ice
arxiv.org/abs/2512.21767

Introducing the F-Index: Tel Aviv University is introducing a bonus to the salaries of faculty members. It's controversial mainly because it’s based on quantitative measures for excellence in research. The Fakexcellence Metric Calculator has been launched: fakexcellence-production.up.railway.app

Call for Nominations! 🌟
The 2026 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics is now open. Since 2006, the prize honors outstanding contributions in biophysics.
Award: $100,000
Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 More info: english.tau.ac.il/TAU_biophysics

Send in your nominations!

Postdoc Positions: Computational Molecular & Materials Science @telavivuni.bsky.social Gili Bisker, Guy Cohen, Oswaldo Dieguez, Moshe Goldstein, @barakhirshberg.bsky.social, Oded Hod, Amir Natan, Abraham Nitzan, Shlomi Reuveni, @yairshokef.bsky.social, Michael Urbakh thesacklercenter.sites.tau.ac.il

🎉 Thank you for joining BioSoft Day #6 at TAU!
A day full of inspiring talks, posters, and scientific exchange.
👏 Congrats to our poster prize winners!
📍 See you next year at BioSoft Day #7!
#BioSoftDay #Biophysics #SoftMatter

@yotamfe.bsky.social

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.
🔗 Details: www.biosoft.sites.tau.ac.il/biosoftday2025
Don't miss it—join us!
#BioSoftDay #TelAvivUni #PhysicsMeetsBiology

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)

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-F...

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.

Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/SMlec25

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)
english.tau.ac.il/TAU_biophysics

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