Barak Hirshberg
@barakhirshberg.bsky.social
#MolecularSimulations | Asst. Prof. Tel Aviv University | PostDoc: Rothschild Fellow, Parrinello group, ETH Zurich | PhD: Adams Fellow, w/Benny Gerber, Hebrew University | #newPI
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🚀 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
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
September 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚀 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
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
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!
Would have never happened without my amazing students and incredible department and colleagues.
@biosofttau.bsky.social
Congrats also to Graham!
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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!
Would have never happened without my amazing students and incredible department and colleagues.
@biosofttau.bsky.social
Congrats also to Graham!
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
Thank you also to Rob Paton and Zoe Cournia.
Congrats Josh, Tibor and Denise, my fellow recipients 🥳
@biosofttau.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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
Thank you also to Rob Paton and Zoe Cournia.
Congrats Josh, Tibor and Denise, my fellow recipients 🥳
@biosofttau.bsky.social
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...
"Adaptive resetting for informed search strategies and the design of non-equilibrium steady-states"
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
August 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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...
"Adaptive resetting for informed search strategies and the design of non-equilibrium steady-states"
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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...
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
July 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
Abe is a giant of theoretical chemistry (in Israel and globally) and an inspiration to us all.
doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
Reposted by Barak Hirshberg
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.
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.
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
June 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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.
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! 🤴
May 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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! 🤴
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!
May 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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!
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...
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
May 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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...
Response theory of first passage processes and the quasi-steady-state hypothesis helps optimize training protocols for neural nets👇
doi.org/10.1088/2632...
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!
May 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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!
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!
It was awarded to him during the ceremony for the TAU international prize in Biophysics!
May 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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!
It was awarded to him during the ceremony for the TAU international prize in Biophysics!
Reposted by Barak Hirshberg
Join us today Tel Aviv Univesity International Prize in Biophysics, honoring Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social Leonid Mirny and Ariel Amir
May 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Join us today Tel Aviv Univesity International Prize in Biophysics, honoring Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social Leonid Mirny and Ariel Amir
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...
Check out our preprint reviewing our work on accelerating molecular dynamics through restarts and inferring unbiased kinetics.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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...
Check out our preprint reviewing our work on accelerating molecular dynamics through restarts and inferring unbiased kinetics.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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. ❤️
What an amazing time it was. Incredible conference and precious time with my beloved relatives. ❤️
March 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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. ❤️
What an amazing time it was. Incredible conference and precious time with my beloved relatives. ❤️
Final speaker of the symposium is Bohak Yoon from Baylor University
March 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Final speaker of the symposium is Bohak Yoon from Baylor University
Almost done with the symposium 😭
One before last, but not least, @podewitzlab.bsky.social on predictive operando computational catalysis
One before last, but not least, @podewitzlab.bsky.social on predictive operando computational catalysis
March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Almost done with the symposium 😭
One before last, but not least, @podewitzlab.bsky.social on predictive operando computational catalysis
One before last, but not least, @podewitzlab.bsky.social on predictive operando computational catalysis
Reposted by Barak Hirshberg
It’s been a fantastic happy hour for our enhanced sampling symposium at #ACSSpring2025
March 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s been a fantastic happy hour for our enhanced sampling symposium at #ACSSpring2025
Elias Diesen on simulating metal/liquid interface for catalysis
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Elias Diesen on simulating metal/liquid interface for catalysis
@grouptuckerman.bsky.social is up next on synergizing machine learning with enhanced sampling.
March 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@grouptuckerman.bsky.social is up next on synergizing machine learning with enhanced sampling.
Sawasta Dasgupta is elevating DFT accuracy for water
March 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sawasta Dasgupta is elevating DFT accuracy for water
Finally out of the igloo! Final day day of the symposium.
All ready for Titus van Erp on massively parallel path sampling
All ready for Titus van Erp on massively parallel path sampling
March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Finally out of the igloo! Final day day of the symposium.
All ready for Titus van Erp on massively parallel path sampling
All ready for Titus van Erp on massively parallel path sampling
My god, I know we organized it, but the happy hour for our symposium was a blast!! @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
My god, I know we organized it, but the happy hour for our symposium was a blast!! @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social
Vanda Glezakou on exploring molecular structures using adaptive learning
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Vanda Glezakou on exploring molecular structures using adaptive learning
It's always fun to meet up with @olexandr.bsky.social ❤️
And I finally met @adrianroitberg.bsky.social face to face! Unreal considering we are part of the same scientific family!
And I finally met @adrianroitberg.bsky.social face to face! Unreal considering we are part of the same scientific family!
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's always fun to meet up with @olexandr.bsky.social ❤️
And I finally met @adrianroitberg.bsky.social face to face! Unreal considering we are part of the same scientific family!
And I finally met @adrianroitberg.bsky.social face to face! Unreal considering we are part of the same scientific family!
Josh Vermaas telling us about "some really big systems"!
March 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Josh Vermaas telling us about "some really big systems"!