The KITP is introducing its new online user interface called Herald for applying to programs and registering for conferences.
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(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Daniel Hone, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the prestigious Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2007-08.
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Professor Nathan Lewis presents "Challenges for Global Energy".
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KITP Director David Gross, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been elected a fellow of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the country. Election to the APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields of intellectual endeavor.
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Professor Robert Kirshner presents "Einstein's Blunder Undone - the discovery of cosmic acceleration".
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Julian Nott, celebrated aeronaut, on scientific explorations with modern ballooning, including Saturn's moon Titan.
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