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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 13d

🚀 Meet the @barakhirshberg.bsky.social Lab
From enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics to bridging physics & ML, they’re redefining how we study complex systems.

🔬 Curious how stochastic resetting speeds up protein folding or even AI training?

#MolecularDynamics #Physics @telavivuni.bsky.social

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · 22d

What an unexpected and pleasant surprise is receiving the Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize. Thank you!
Would have never happened without my amazing students and incredible department and colleagues.
@biosofttau.bsky.social
Congrats also to Graham!

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm very proud to receive the @acscomp.bsky.social OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry!
Thank you also to Rob Paton and Zoe Cournia.
Congrats Josh, Tibor and Denise, my fellow recipients 🥳
@biosofttau.bsky.social

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Aug 8

It took us almost a year, but it is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com , a paper I am SO SO proud of by Tommer Keidar, Ofir Blumer, myself, and Shlomi Reuveni.

"Adaptive resetting for informed search strategies and the design of non-equilibrium steady-states"

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Jul 8

Very few things make me prouder than having Jacob and @yotamfe.bsky.social's paper published today in JCP in the special issue honoring one of my personal heroes, Abraham Nitzan.

Abe is a giant of theoretical chemistry (in Israel and globally) and an inspiration to us all.
doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Periodic boundary conditions for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics

We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with t

doi.org

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Yotam Feldman @yotamfe.bsky.social · Jun 10

Had a great time talking with Martin about the various astonishments I've experienced while thinking hard on invariant inference and finding myself studying learning theory. Also: SAT solving for metamaterials w/ @yairshokef.bsky.social, and the joys of feeling stupid. Hope you'll enjoy it.

ETAPS conferences @etapsconf.bsky.social · Jun 6

A new blog post is out:
etaps.org/blog/034-yot...

Yotam Feldman, winner of the 2024 ETAPS dissertation award, talks about his PhD research.

On the Theory of Learning Invariants

Interview with Yotam Feldman, the winner of the 2024 ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award.

etaps.org

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 24

Also visiting us this month as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Tel Aviv University is Joel Eaves from CU Boulder He gave a great talk on why singlet fission molecules are promising candidates for quantum computing applications! 🤴

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 23

Dinner time with our visiting professors, Dvira and Joel, and my colleague, Guy Cohen. We took a stroll along the Yarkon river, and then had some great fish and seafood at the Tel Aviv port. It was great! 😋 Just in time for a beautiful sunset too!

Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 15

So thank you! 😊

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 15

Honestly, we were so happy with the review process. It was fast, fair, and really helped us improve the paper. They encouraged us to show that the quasi steady state hypothesis is relevant also to regression, and other models and datasets. Feels like we found the right spot for this sort of work!

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 15

Our paper is now out in MLST @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social, the BEST place for stat mech for ML! @biosofttau.bsky.social

Response theory of first passage processes and the quasi-steady-state hypothesis helps optimize training protocols for neural nets👇
doi.org/10.1088/2632...

First-passage approach to optimizing perturbations for improved training of machine learning models - IOPscienceSearch

First-passage approach to optimizing perturbations for improved training of machine learning models, Meir, Sagi, Keidar, Tommer David, Reuveni, Shlomi, Hirshberg, Barak

doi.org

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 12

Wonderful symposium celebrating the TAU International Prize in Biophysics! Congratulations @ceesdekker.bsky.social Petra Schwille, Leonid Mirny (2024), Ariel Amir, Arvind Murugan, and Julien Tailleur (2025). Too bad some flights were canceled. Hope to see you soon at @biosofttau.bsky.social!

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations to Ofir for winning the outstanding student achievement award for 2024.
It was awarded to him during the ceremony for the TAU international prize in Biophysics!

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · May 12

Join us today Tel Aviv Univesity International Prize in Biophysics, honoring Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social Leonid Mirny and Ariel Amir

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Apr 9

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Stochastic resetting for enhanced sampling.
Check out our preprint reviewing our work on accelerating molecular dynamics through restarts and inferring unbiased kinetics.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

a man wearing a t-shirt that says ptfm is sitting at a desk

ALT: a man wearing a t-shirt that says ptfm is sitting at a desk

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Barak Hirshberg @barakhirshberg.bsky.social · Mar 27

Concluding this amazing trip to southern California with my family in Irvine, making everyone Aperol Spritzband eating stakes.
What an amazing time it was. Incredible conference and precious time with my beloved relatives. ❤️