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The Notorious Luminous Blue Variable Star

Yan-Fei Jiang and colleagues — Matteo Cantiello of the Flatiron Institute, Lars Bildsten of KITP, Eliot Quataert at UC Berkeley, Omer Blaes of UC Santa Barbara, and James Stone of Princeton — have now developed a three-dimensional simulation to reveal the inner workings of one of the universe’s most mysterious stars.

UCSB Press Release

KITP Call for Proposals 2018

KITP Needs your Ideas! Now is the time to submit program pre-proposals or full proposals for the 2020-2021 academic year at https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/for-scientists/program-suggestions.

Now Accepting Postdoc Applications

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara expects to appoint Postdoctoral Scholars in theoretical physics, beginning September 1, 2019.