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The next Café KITP at SOhO features visiting KITP astrophysicist Josiah Schwab. Join him over dinner and drinks as he gives us a tour of the many kinds of stellar mergers and the varied ways in which astronomers and astrophysicists observe them. The event is on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm. 

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The next Café KITP at SOhO features Le Yan. Join him over dinner and drinks as he discusses the function and structure of proteins and explains how they can perform action at a distance. The event is on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm. 

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Nigel Goldenfeld presents "Beyond Chaos: The Continuing Enigma of Turbulence

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KITP Director Lars Bildsten was just named the 2017 awardee of the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics given jointly by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS)

The Fall 2016 KITP Newsletter has now been released! 

Fall 2016 Newsletter

Joe Polchinski, KITP Permanent Member and the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Professor of Theoretical Physics was named a recipient of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in San Francisco on December 4, 2016.

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Astrophysicists at KITP will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars 
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

KITP’s Greg Huber worked with nuclear physicists to confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars.

Professor Immanuel Bloch presents "Realizing Feynman’s Dream of a Quantum Simulator" 

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The next Café KITP at SOhO features Mike McCourt. Join him over dinner and drinks as he discusses gas clouds in the darkest reaches of galaxies and explains how they can be understood as a cosmic analog of fog. The event is on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm. 

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