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KITP Public Lecture Wednesday, December 16, 8:00 pm
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed presents “Exploring the Dark Universe”
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New Type of Supernova Explosion Detected Was Predicted by KITP Theoretical Physicists
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.
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Entrepreneur Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology
In honor of his mother, Gus Gurley establishes a chair whose first holder is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.
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Message From the Director
David Gross Reports on State of the KITP as Presented to Recent NSF Review Committee.
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Kachru and Silverstein to Join KITP
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.
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KITP Fosters Collaboration Between Physicists and Ecologists That Leads to Crucial New Insights Into the Role of Fire in Climate Change
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.”
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KITP Public Lecture Wednesday, May 13, 8:00 pm
Professor Maria Spiropulu presents “The Universe in Collisions”
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