Efi Efrati
Born July 12th 1977, Jerusalem, Israel.
Married +2
Contact:
[email protected]
James Franck Institute
929 E 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Education and Academic:
2013-present Postdoctoral fellow, James Franck Institute, The university of Chicago.
2010-2013
Simons Postdoctoral fellow, James Franck Institute, The university of Chicago.
2005-2010
Ph.D, The Hebrew University Jerusalem.
Under the guidance of Dr. Eran Sharon and Prof. Raz Kupferman.
Subject of research “Elastic theory of Non Euclidean plates”.
Summa Cum Laude.
2003-2005
M.Sc, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University Jerusalem.
Subject of research: “Hydrodynamics of a freely evolving granular gas”.
Under the supervision of Prof. Baruch Meerson.
2001-2003
B.Sc. Physics and Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Magna Cum Laude.
Fellowships, awards and scholarships
2013
Compton lectureship, University of Chicago
2011
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Max Schlomiuk award for outstanding PhD thesis.
2010-2013
Simons post-doctoral fellowship.
2010
Rothschild post-doctoral fellowship (declined).
2004
Giulio Racah prize for theoretical physics (M.Sc).
2003-2005
Faculty of math and science scholarship for excelling students (M.Sc).
2002
Dean’s list (Faculty of Science).
2001
Prize for high entrance scores.
Publications:
1. E. Efrati, E. Livne and B. Meerson, Hydrodynamic singularities and clustering in a
freely cooling inelastic gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 8, 088001 (2005) .
2. Y. Klein, E. Efrati and E. Sharon. Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of nonEuclidean metrics. Science. 315, 1116 (2007).
See also perspective: Better Geometry Through Chemistry, Science 315, 5815, 1083-1084 (2007).
3. E. Efrati, Y. Klein, H. Aharoni and E. Sharon. Spontaneous Buckling of Elastic Sheets
with a Prescribed Non-Euclidean Metric. Phys. D, 235, 29 (2007).
4. E. Efrati, E. Sharon and R. Kupferman, Elastic theory of unconstrained non Euclidean
plates. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 57, 762-775 (2009).
5. E. Efrati, E. Sharon and R. Kupferman, Buckling transition and boundary layer in nonEuclidean plates, Phys. Rev. E 80, 016602 (2009).
(Also appeared in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research )
6. E. Sharon and E. Efrati, The mechanics of non-Euclidean plates,
Soft Matter 6, 5693-5704 (2010).
7. E. Efrati, E. Sharon and R. Kupferman, Hyperbolic non-Euclidean elastic strips and
almost minimal surfaces, Phys. Rev. E 83, 046602 (2011).
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8. Shahaf Armon, E. Efrati, Raz Kupferman and Eran Sharon, Geometry and Mechanics
in the Opening of Chiral Seed Pods, Science 333, 6050, 1726-1730 (2011).
See also perspective: Generating Helices in Nature, Science 333, 6050, 1715-1716 (2011).
9. Luka Pocivavsek, E. Efrati, Ka Yee C. Lee and Roger D. Hurst. Three Dimensional
Geometry of the Heinike-Mikulicz Strictureplasty, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases,
19,4, 704-71, 2013.
10. E. Efrati, E. Sharon and R. Kupferman, “The metric description of elasticity in
residually stressed soft materials”. Invited contribution to: Soft Matter, Themed Issue on
‘The Geometry and Topology of Soft Materials’. Soft Mater 9, 8187-8197 (2013).
11. E. Efrati, W.T.M Irvine, “Orientation dependent handedness and chiral design”. Phys.
Rev. X, 4, 011003 (2014).
See also commentary: Describing Chirality as a Pseudotensor, Journal club for condensed matter physics.
June 2013.
12. E. Efrati, Z. Wang, A. Kolan and L. Kadanoff, “Real space re-normalization in
statistical mechanics.” Accepted, Rev. Mod. Phys. (2014).
(see also arXiv:1301.6323)
Submitted manuscripts
O. Gottesman, E. Efrati and S. Rubinstein.
Furrows at the wakes of propagating d-cones. (arXiv:1310.5290)
N. Tramm, N. Oppenheimer, S. Nagy, E. Efrati and D. Biron,
Why do sleeping nematodes adopt a hockey-stick-like posture.
Invited Talks
“Elastic theory of non-Euclidean plates”
1. The 6th Negev workshop on applied mathematics, Sde Boker, Israel, (July 2007).
2. Analysis and its applications seminar, University of Arizona, Tuscon, (January 2008).
3. IMA summer program, geometrical singularities and singular seometries, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, (July 2008).
4. The 7th Negev workshop on applied mathematics, Sde Boker, Israel, (July 2009).
5. Computations in science seminars, University of Chicago, USA, (March, 2009).
6. Physical mathematics seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA,
(September 2009).
7. University of Massachusetts, mathematical physics seminar, Amherst, USA,
(September 2009).
8. Widely applied math seminar, Harvard, Boston, USA, (September 2009).
“The metric description of incompatible growth and irreversible deformations”
9. IMA Hot Topics Workshop: Strain induced shape formation: analysis, geometry and
materials science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, (May 2011).
“Contesting the paradigm of chirality”
10. Computations in science seminars, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago,
USA, (November, 2011).
11. Workshop on modern perspectives on thin sheets: geometry, elasticity, and statistical
physics, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, (Sep 2012).
“On the tensorial nature of chirality”
12. Department of Physics colloquium, Weizmann institute, Israel, (Nov 2012).
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13. Through the looking glass: Geometry and Topology of Materials. Princeton center for
theoretical physics, Princeton, USA, (Dec 2012).
“Chirality Beyond Kelvin: Orientation Dependent Measures of Handedness and Chiral
Design”
14. JFI seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, (Feb 2013).
15. LASSP and A&EP Seminar, Cornell, Ithaca, USA (Aug 2013).
“Orientation Dependent Handedness and Chiral Design”
16. Imagery for insight into material structure: A symposium in honor of Tom Witten,
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA (Oct 2013).
17. MRSEC/ Physics Department Colloquium, Brandeis, Waltham, USA (Nov 2013).
18. Theor./Math. physics seminar, Technion, Haifa, Israel (Dec 2013).
19. Bio and condensed matter seminar, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Dec 2013).
20. Nonlinear physics seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (Dec 2013).
21. Colloquium, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er-Sheva, Israel (Dec 2013).
“Elastic theory of non-Euclidean plates”
22. Complex systems seminar, Weizmann institute, Israel, (Dec 2013).
Upcoming invited talks
“Orientation Dependent Handedness and Chiral Design”
23. Widely applied math seminar, Harvard, Boston, USA (Feb 2014).
24. Physics colloquium, Emory, Atlanta, USA (Feb 2014).
Contributed Talks
1. Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects, March Meeting of the APS,
Pittsburgh, USA (March, 2009).
2. Soft Materials: Functionality through instabilities and deformation, 48th Annual
Technical Conference of Society of Engineering Sciences, Evanston, USA (October, 2011).
3. Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics – Plates, March Meeting of the APS, Boston, USA
(March, 2011).
Referee for
Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Europhysics Letters,
and Journal of Physics A.
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