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Mourning the Loss of Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
Joe Polchinski, who passed away Feb. 2, left a tremendous professional and personal legacy, says a friend and collaborator Eva Silverstein
Read moreEva Silverstein, Stanford University
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More Ways to Connect: @KITP_UCSB
KITP has fostered connections amongst scientific communities for almost 40 years through well-defined and extended-stay interactive scientific programs, and by allowing space and time for deep and lasting collaborative relationships to develop. On January 1, 2018, we added a new venue for connecting our visiting scientists, the global scientific community, and science enthusiasts when we launched the @KITP_UCSB Twitter account.
Read moreLisa Stewart, KITP Chief Administrative Officer
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Superstars’ Secrets
Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
Read moreSarah Webb, PhD, Senior Science Writer for Krell Institute
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Two KITP Programs Probed the Properties of Dark Matter
During the spring of 2018 particle physicists and astrophysicists gathered at KITP to participate in two complementary programs, one in the field of astrophysics and the other in the field of high energy physics. Both programs were aimed at shedding light on a puzzle that has excited a whole new generation of researchers.
Read moreProfessor Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist University
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Physics of Dense Suspensions and the Montecito Debris Flows
Dense suspensions are liquids that contain a large proportion of solid particles, and they exhibit a striking range of behaviors. Understanding this rich interplay of physics is at the frontier of the physics of “soft matter”, and formed the central theme of the “Physics of Dense Suspensions” program that took place at KITP in Spring 2018.
Read moreDouglas J. Jerolmack, Professor of Geophysics at University of Pennsylvania
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Leon Balents Elected to Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Leon Balents was elected as a member of the 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April of 2018. His selection, along with two additional UCSB professors, brings the total number of UCSB faculty members named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to 37.
Read moreAndrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs
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Lars Bildsten Elected to Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize laureate David Gross wanted to be the first to break the news to KITP Director Lars Bildsten. So, with apologies for the early hour, he phoned his colleague at 6:30 a.m. on May 1, 2018 to congratulate him for being elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
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A New Wrinkle in Physics
Postdoctoral scholar pushes beyond the boundaries of physics with his Café KITP talk on the brain’s physical structure
Read moreSonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
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A Missing Flag
My journey in Physics started in my home country of Cameroon, completing a Master in Physics at the University of Buea in 2013 on the modelling of nerve impulses in biological neural networks. I then obtained a postgraduate diploma scholarship to study Condensed Matter Physics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Read moreEstelle Inack, Perimeter Institute
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The Standard Siren
Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves, two KITP postdocs had a novel idea.
Read moreHarrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019