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International Kudos
SummaryScience academies in China and Russia recognize Nobel laureate David Gross for his continuing work in theoretical physics
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Another Major Breakthrough
SummaryJoseph Polchinski wins prestigious 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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Shelly Leachman, UCSB Public Affairs & Communications
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Turbulence Mixes Up Particles and Physicists
SummaryThe flows can be found everywhere
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Stephanie Pernett, UCSB Daily Nexus
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Director's Letter - Spring 2017
Summary We housed our first physicists and their families in the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence on January 1, 2017.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Inspiration in the Stars
SummaryLars Bildsten wins the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Nuclear Physics in the Spotlight
SummaryFrom exploring nature’s most extreme environments to testing its most fundamental symmetries
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Zohreh Davoudi, MIT
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
See you in the Smellyverse
SummaryOlfaction is the final frontier of our senses, the one that is still mysterious to us. Despite large amounts of genetic, physiological, and perceptual data, many fundamental questions about our sense of smell remain unresolved.
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Alexei Koulakov, Deconstructing the Sense of Smell Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
SummaryA KITP program participant explains how math used in sewing and knitting also describes cosmic curvature
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016