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Newly Devised Test May Soon Confirm Strings As Fundamental Constituent of Matter, Energy
KITP Program Heralds Birth of String Cosmology
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Polchinski Elected To National Academy of Sciences
Joseph G. Polchinski, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and KITP permanent member, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences at the annual spring meeting.
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World’s Top Theoretical Physicists Converge to Consider ‘Future of Physics’
Celebrating 25 Years of Santa Barbara as a Theoretical Physics Center
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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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High School Teachers Need Physics Now
Some 70 teachers of physics came from throughout the United States to the KITP’s fifth conference for high school teachers — this one on “Nanoscience and Quantum Computing.”
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Optimization: the Renewed Quest for a Physics of Biology
One of the main missions of the KITP is to catalyze and to promote collaborations, the hallmark of 21-century science.
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Topological Quantum Computing: The Devil is Not in the Details
"Interdisciplinary" is a word that has gotten a lot of press in the past decade’s reporting on prospects for scientific discovery...
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Thinking About Thinking About Quantum Mechanics
Possible Good News for Aging Quantum Physicists
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Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP
In the spring of 1997, former graduate students at the UC San Diego invited Michael Freedman, a topologist awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, to give a talk at Microsoft Research. At the conclusion of that talk, an employee then there, physicist Nathan Myrvold, offered Freedman a job to work, more or less, on whatever he wanted.
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How to Tell a Fermion From a Boson
All particles in three-dimensional space are either bosons or fermions. What distinguishes one from the other is not a simple matter...
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