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Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed presents “Exploring the Dark Universe”

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A class of supernova, discovered by scientists at Berkeley, may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at KITP and UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work.

In honor of his mother, Gus Gurley establishes a chair whose first holder is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.
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David Gross Reports on State of the KITP as Presented to Recent NSF Review Committee.
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Shamit Kachru and Eva Silverstein will join the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in the fall of 2009, jointly filling a KITP permanent member position.

An article, “Fire in the Earth System,” published in the April 24, 2009 issue of “Science,” calls for the dynamic incorporation of fire as both an effect and a cause in models of global climate and its change. The article’s insights came from a workshop on fire ecology that occurred in the summer of 2008 as part of the KITP program “The Physics of Climate Change.”

Professor Maria Spiropulu presents “The Universe in Collisions”
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Professor Sankar Das Sarma presents “Quantum Reality”
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Hartle Honored for 'Outstanding Accomplishments' in Gravitational Physics

Professor Michael Freedman presents “Topology, Physics, and Complexity: The Birthing of the Quantum Computer.”
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Award to KITP Permanent Member Commemorates Dirac's Birthday.

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Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf presents "Mathematics and the Quantum Universe".
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His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh conferred an honorary doctorate on the KITP Director at Cambridge University ceremonies on June 23.