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Superstars’ Secrets

Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
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Sarah 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
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

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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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

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.
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Douglas J. Jerolmack, Professor of Geophysics at University of Pennsylvania
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018