Yair Shokef


(formerly Srebro)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Soft Condensed Matter

Department of Physics & Astronomy

University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Papers:

Frequency-dependent fluctuation-dissipation relations in granular gases
G. Bunin, Y. Shokef, and D. Levine
Physical Review E 77, 051301 (2008)

 

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of dividing cell populations
N. Brenner and Y. Shokef
Physical Review Letters 99, 138102 (2007)

Isolated non-equilibrium systems in contact
Y. Shokef
, G. Shulkind, and D. Levine
Physical Review E 76, 030101(R) (2007)

Energy distribution and effective temperatures in a driven dissipative model
Y. Shokef and D. Levine

Physical Review E 74, 051111 (2006)

Fluctuation-dissipation relations in driven dissipative systems
Y. Shokef, G. Bunin, and D. Levine
Physical Review E 73, 046132 (2006)

Comment on "Temperature in nonequilibrium systems with conserved energy"
Y. Srebro and D. Levine
Physical Review Letters 94, 208901 (2005)

Studying hydrodynamic instabilities using shock-tube experiments
O. Sadot, K. Levy, A. Yosef-Hai, D. Cartoon, Y. Elbaz, Y. Srebro, G. Ben-Dor, and D. Shvarts
Astrophysics and Space Science 298, 305 (2005)

Two-dimensional simulations of plastic-shell, direct-drive implosions on OMEGA
P. B. Radha, V. N. Goncharov, T. J. B. Collins, J. A. Delettrez, Y. Elbaz, V. Yu. Glebov, R. L. Keck, D. E. Keller, J. P. Knauer, J. A. Marozas, F. J. Marshall, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, Y. Srebro, R. P. J. Town, and C. Stoeckl
Physics of Plasmas 12, 032702 (2005)

Multidimensional analysis of direct-drive, plastic-shell implosions on OMEGA
P. B. Radha, T. J. B. Collins, J. A. Delettrez, Y. Elbaz, R. Epstein, V. Yu. Glebov, V. N. Goncharov, R. L. Keck, J. P. Knauer, J. A. Marozas, F. J. Marshall, R. L. McCrory, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, Y. Srebro, and C. Stoeckl
Physics of Plasmas 12, 056307 (2005)

Exactly solvable model for driven dissipative systems
Y. Srebro and D. Levine
Physical Review Letters 93, 240601 (2004)

Role of friction in compaction and segregation of granular materials
Y. Srebro and D. Levine
Physical Review E 68, 061301 (2003)

A general buoyancy-drag model for the evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities
Y. Srebro, Y. Elbaz, O. Sadot, L. Arazi, and D. Shvarts
Laser and Particle Beams 21, 347-353 (2003)

Modeling turbulent mixing in inertial confinement fusion implosions
Y. Srebro, D. Kushnir, Y. Elbaz, and D. Shvarts
Laser and Particle Beams 21, 355-361 (2003)

Scaling in the shock-bubble interaction
K. Levy, O. Sadot, A. Rikanati, D. Kartoon, Y. Srebro, A. Yosef-Hai, G. Ben-Dor, and D. Shvarts
Laser and Particle Beams 21, 335-339 (2003)

Optical and plasma smoothing of laser imprinting in targets driven by lasers with SSD bandwidths up to 1 THz
T. R. Boehly, V. N. Goncharov, O. Gotchev, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Oron, S. P. Regan, Y. Srebro, W. Seka, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, and V. A. Smalyuk
Physics of Plasmas 8, 2331-2337 (2001)

Scaling laws of nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in two and three dimensions
D. Shvarts, D. Oron, D. Kartoon, A. Rikanati, O. Sadot, Y. Srebro, Y. Yedvab, D. Ofer, A. Levin, E. Sarid, G. Ben-Dor, L. Erez, G. Erez, A. Yosef-Hai, U. Alon, and L. Arazi
Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Series IV - Physics 1, 719-726 (2000)

Nonlinear evolution of broad-bandwidth, laser-imprinted nonuniformities in planar targets accelerated by 351-nm laser light
V. A. Smalyuk, T. R. Boehly, D. K. Bradley, V. N. Gonocharov, J. A. Delettrez, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Oron, D. Shvarts , Y. Srebro, and R. P. J. Town
Physics of Plasmas 6, 4022-4036 (1999)

Studies in the nonlinear evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and their role in inertial confinement fusion
D. Oron, O. Sadot, Y. Srebro, A. Rikanati, Y. Yedvab, U. Alon, L. Erez, G. Erez, G. Ben-Dor, L. A. Levin, D. Ofer, and D. Shvarts
Laser and Particle Beams 17, 465-475 (1999)

 

Theses:

The Effect of Laser Imprint on Perturbation Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Y. Srebro
M.Sc. Thesis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (2000)

 

 

Thermodynamic Analogies in Granular Materials

Y. Shokef
Ph.D. Thesis, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (2006)

 

 

 

 

Conference
Presentations:

2D Simulations of Multimode Perturbations in Ablatively Driven Foils
D. Oron, Y. Srebro, D. Ofer, and D. Shvarts
28th Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA (1998)

 

 

Simulations of SSD Smoothing of Laser Nonuniformity in Directly Driven Foils
D. Ofer, D. Oron, Y. Srebro, D. Shvarts, S. Skupsky, J. Delettrez, and C. P. Verdon
28th Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA (1998)

 

 

Hydrodynamic Simulations of Static and Dynamic Laser Imprint
Y. Srebro
, D. Oron, D. Shvarts, T. R. Boehly, V. N. Goncharov, O. Gotchev, V. A. Smalyuk, S. Skupsky, and D. D. Meyerhofer
29th Annual Anomalous Absorption Conference, Pacific Grove, California, USA (1999)

 

 

Hydrodynamic Simulations of Static and Dynamic Laser Imprint in Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion
Y. Srebro
, D. Oron, D. Shvarts, T. R. Boehly, V. N. Goncharov, O. Gotchev, V. A. Smalyuk, S. Skupsky, and D. D. Meyerhofer
3rd Israeli Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel (2000)

 

 

The Effect of Laser Imprint on Perturbation Growth in Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion
Y. Srebro
, D. Oron, and D. Shvarts
4th Israeli Conference on Plasma Physics and Applications, Technion, Haifa, Israel (2001).

 

 

Modeling Turbulent Mixing in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions
Y. Srebro
, D. Kushnir, Y. Elbaz, and D. Shvarts
8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Pasadena, California, USA (2001)

 

 

A General Buoyancy-Drag Model for the Evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities
Y. Elbaz, Y. Srebro, O. Sadot, and D. Shvarts
8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Pasadena, California, USA (2001)

 

 

Experimental and Numerical Study of Shock-Bubble Interactions
K. Levy, O. Sadot, D. Oron, Y. Srebro, Y. Elbaz, A. Yosef-Hai, G. Ben-Dor, and D. Shvarts
8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Pasadena, California, USA (2001)

 

 

The Role of Friction in Compaction and Segregation of Granular Materials
Y. Srebro
and D. Levine
International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, course CLV on the physics of complex systems (new advances and perspectives), Varenna, Italy (2003).

 

 

Aspects of energy dissipation in Granular Gases
Y. Srebro
and D. Levine
XIX Sitges Conference on Jamming, Yielding and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain (2004)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems
Y. Srebro and D. Levine
Israel Physical Society 51st Annual Meeting, Ort-Baude, Karmiel, Israel (2005)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems
Y. Shokef and D. Levine
Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Interacting Particle Systems Workshop, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England (2006)

 

 

When do Effective Temperatures Agree?
Y. Shokef
and D. Levine
Soft Matter Workshop, The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (2006)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems
Y. Shokef and D. Levine
96th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA (2006)

 

 

When do Effective Temperatures Agree?
Y. Shokef
and D. Levine
Flow in Glassy Systems, Les Houches, France (2007)

 

 

Isolated Non-Equilibrium Systems in Contact
Y. Shokef
, G. Shulkind, and D. Levine
American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO, USA (2007)

 

 

Isolated Non-Equilibrium Systems in Contact
Y. Shokef
, G. Shulkind, and D. Levine
97th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA (2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Y. Shokef, Y. Han, A. Alsayed, P. Yunker, T. Lubensky, and A. Yodh

98th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA (2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Colloidal `Antiferromanget`

Y. Han, Y. Shokef, A. Alsayed, P. Yunker, T. Lubensky, and A. Yodh

American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA (2008)

 

 

Stripes and their Zigzagging in Buckled Hard Spheres

Y. Shokef, Y. Han, A. Alsayed, P. Yunker, T. Lubensky, and A. Yodh

American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA (2008)

 

 

Stripes and their Zigzagging in Buckled Hard Spheres

Y. Shokef, Y. Han, A. Alsayed, P. Yunker, T. Lubensky, and A. Yodh

99th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA (2008)

 

 

 

 

Seminars:

The Effect of Laser Imprint on Perturbation Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Nuclear Research Center Negev, Israel (March 1999)

 

 

The Effect of Laser Imprint on Perturbation Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (March 2000)

 

 

How do Fluids Mix - Theory, Simulations, & Experiments of Hydrodynamic Instabilities

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (January 2003)

 

 

Controlled ThermoNuclear Fusion - the quest for more money

The Effect of Laser Imprint on Perturbation Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (May 2003)

 

 

Granular ``Thermodynamics``

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (January 2004)

 

 

Modeling Dissipation

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (November 2004)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (September 2005)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (September 2005)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (November 2005)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

Nuclear Research Center Negev, Israel (November 2005)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (May 2006)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (June 2006)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (November 2006)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (February 2007)

 

 

Minimal Modeling of Driven Dissipative Systems

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, USA (October 2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (November 2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (November 2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (November 2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel (November 2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (November 2007)

 

 

Geometrical Frustration in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

New-York University, New-York, NY, USA (February 2008)