Happy to join the wonderful biosoft retreat.

Our MSc student Yaniv Friedman introducing the lab’s research topics and projects at the @BioSoft3 retreat

Ice cream break! 🍦

פיזיקאים מישראל עשו צעד ליצירת חומר שאינו נמס באף טמפרטורה haaretz.co.il/science/physic…

Something’s cooking…

Great talk by Harel in the Condensed Matter students' symposium!

geometric frustration plus prestress produce a metamaterial that deforms differently depending on the sequence of (same) operations acting on it !!! doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… with Callum Brady Complex Matter Lab Chaviva Sirote Yoav Lahini Cristiano Nisoli Tel Aviv University Fulbright Israel

Crumpled media can hold memories and now we know how! Fun project led by Dor Shohat Complex Matter Lab Tel Aviv University with Daniel Hexner Technion Israel pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Beautiful work from @Gulliver_lab, with contribution by our lab member Dor Shohat! Dor’s stay at ESPCI Paris - PSL was funded by the Chateaubriand Fellowship awarded by the French Embassy and the French Institute in Israel.

Check out our new preprint on macroscopic signatures of memory formation in complex matter - just track dissipation! arxiv.org/abs/2209.00572

Generative models can capture, mimick, and help explore the physics of correlated quantum walks! journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1…

Amorphous, complex matter can store long-lasting memories of past mechanical perturbations. We show that these can be tracked and quantified using a global observable - just measure dissipation! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our lab member Dor Shohat is participating, come check it out!

📢 Postdoc Job Alert! Join us EPFL, in gorgeous Lausanne, Switzerland. We are a curiosity-driven team exploring the wonderful mechanics of slender structures, focusing on experiments, together w/ theory and computation. Deadline: July 1st. More info: recruiting.epfl.ch/Vacancies/2933…

Perspective: Proliferating active matter By Oskar Hallatschek, Sujit S. Datta Datta Lab, Knut Drescher, Jörn Dunkel, Jens Elgeti, Bartek Waclaw & Ned S. Wingreen rdcu.be/ddqwS

Our latest research, just published in Nature Physics: slow relaxations and logarithmic aging occur via self-organized avalanches of local instabilities. Splendid work by Yaniv Friedman and Dor Shohat Complex Matter Lab Tel Aviv University nature.com/articles/s4156… rdcu.be/dngVA

Crumpled sheets reveal a mechanism for glassy relaxations: self-organized avalanches of instabilities! phys.org/news/2023-11-c… via Phys.org

How should we model the dynamics of root growth as it turns towards gravity? As physicists, we tried using a damped harmonic oscillator. And it works! In small angles. Check out our new JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social paper, with Mathieu Rivière and @MerozLab: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/er…

Thrilled to see this paper published Soft Matter: doi.org/10.1039/D3SM01… If you like soft mechanics & hydrogels, check it out!