Featured Newsletter Articles
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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
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018 -
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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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.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
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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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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
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018 -
An Entanglement of Physicists
An eclectic gathering at the KITP produces unexpected breakthroughs
Read moreRoger Melko, University of Waterloo Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Remembering Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, who died Mar. 14 — Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day —had a brilliant mind and a puckish sense of humor
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
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A New Window on the Universe
KITP hosts a rapid-response program to explore myriad new astrophysical insights from a double neutron star merger
Read moreJulie Cohen, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018