Featured Newsletter Articles
Articles curated from our KITP Newsletters archive, please click the article's title or image to read the featured story.
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Stellar End Products: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Black Holes
Degenerate Star Program Participants Grapple With Many Open Questions
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Structure of Dark Matter, The Backbone of the Universe
Questions of Dark Matter Sub-Structure, Isothermal Relation Between Dark and Visible Matter Dominate Discussion
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Scholars Program Infuses Vitality Into Research Efforts Of Physicists Who Mostly Teach Undergraduates
“Coming to Santa Barbara as a KITP scholar is like joining a brotherhood in a place of worship..."
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From the Heart
"Cardiac Dynamics,” a month-long, KITP mini-program held in the summer of 2006, brought together physicists, cardiologists, and biomedical scientists and engineers for interdisciplinary collaboration on the application of techniques of non-linear dynamics to understanding the sub-set of cardiac arrhythmias that are potentially fatal.
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Why Care About Type Ia Supernovae?
In April of 1006 occurred the brightest stellar event so far in recorded history, visible for months at a time, on and off, for years afterward.
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Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
With Shraiman’s Appointment, Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
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Director's Letter - Spring 2006
This spring we have run two programs that get to the heart of quantum mechanics.
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Solid-State Physics: Quantum Choreography Inside Crystals
Fisher Frames History of Field for Focus on Strongly Correlated Electrons
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