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Director's Letter - Fall 2018
I hope that by now you have seen our 2018 Impact Report, which is the first edition of what will become our annual report to all KITP supporters.
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Director's Letter - Spring 2018
I open this Newsletter with a heavy heart. Our good friend and colleague Joe Polchinski passed away in early February 2018. I’ve since had a chance to meet with his wife Dorothy and speak with her about Joe’s remarkable legacy across all of science.
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Director's Letter - Fall 2019
Fall is the time of change.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019 -
Director's Letter - Spring 2019
Our cover image for the Spring Newsletter is from Gary Smaby, a long-time KITP friend and supporter.
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
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Understanding the Brain
The Ultimate Interdisciplinary Rendezvous?
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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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Point of View: Physicists and Biologists Watch Fruitfly Movie
An English literature professor remarked to his graduate students in a class on 20th century American novelists, “Point of view is everything in fiction.”
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Eminent Biologist Embraces Physics
Arnold Levine, a molecular biologist, and an authority on the molecular basis of cancer, gave one of the KITP 2005 Public Lectures on “Genetic Predispositions for Cancer in Humans.”
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How Is Birdsong Like a Tennis Serve?
How the young bird learns song appears to bear a striking resemblance not only to how a human baby learns speech, but also to how general goal-directed behaviors involving fine muscle control are learned.
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