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KITP Ranks First In Research Impact
How can the performance of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics be measured and assessed?
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Secondary School Teachers Sample Stellar Treats
On March 17 the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics hosted its annual conference for secondary school science teachers from throughout the United States
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Thermonuclear Explosions Cause Most Heated of Discussions
KITP’s Resident Astrophysicist Describes Fusion Reactions
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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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Polchinski Receives Prestigious Heineman Prize
Joseph Polchinski, a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, has been named 2007 recipient of the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
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String Phenomenology Revs Up in Anticipation Of LHC Turn on
String theory, initially conceived in the late 1960s to explain the strong force that traps quark triplets in protons and neutrons, is no longer all that “new.”
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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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