Efi Efrati
Born July 12th 1977, Jerusalem, Israel.
Married +2
Contact:
James Franck Institute
929 E 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Education and Academic:
2010-present 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
2011 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Max Schlomiuk award for outstanding PhD thesis.
2010 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 non- Euclidean metrics. Science. 315, 1116 (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 non-Euclidean 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).
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).
9. Luka Pocivavsek, E. Efrati, Ka Yee C. Lee and Roger D. Hurst. Three Dimensional Geometry of the Heinike-Mikulicz Strictureplasty, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases,
in press 2012.
10. E. Efrati and William Irvine. On the tensorial nature of chirality, submitted 2012.
Invited Talks
“Why are stress fields good candidates for growth regulation”
1. N.E.S.T project Mech-plant annual meeting, Bern, Switzerland, (February, 2007).
“Growing elastic plates and spontaneous buckling”
2. J.Lippincott-Schwartz's lab seminar , NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. (February 2008).
“Elastic theory of non-Euclidean plates”
3. The 6th Negev workshop on applied mathematics, Sde Boker, Israel, (July 2007).
4. Analysis and its applications seminar, University of Arizona, Tuscon, (January 2008).
5. IMA summer program, geometrical singularities and singular seometries, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, (July 2008).
6. The 7th Negev workshop on applied mathematics, Sde Boker, Israel, (July 2009).
7. Computations in science seminars, Chicago Materials Research Center, University of Chicago, USA, (March, 2009).
8. Physical mathematics seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, (September 2009).
9. University of Massachusetts, mathematical physics seminar, Amherst, USA, (September 2009).
10. Widely applied math seminar, Harvard, Boston, USA, (September 2009).
“The metric description of incompatible growth and irreversible deformations”
11. IMA Hot Topics Workshop: Strain induced shape formation: analysis, geometry and materials science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, (May 2011).
“Contesting the paradigm of chirality”
12. Computations in science seminars, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA, (November, 2011).
13. Workshop on modern perspectives on thin sheets: geometry, elasticity, and statistical physics, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, (Sep 2012).
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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Efi Efrati: Curriculum vitae, October 2012