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Director's Letter - Fall 2016

Summary I am writing to you this Fall, as we complete construction of KITP’s new Residence...
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

KITP Residence Designed to LEED Specifications

Summary

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

A Cutting-Edge Research Tool

Summary

Summer school teaches astrophysicists how to use an open source computational code
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

Importance of the Family Fund to Visiting Scientists

Summary

Because it takes extended interactions to substantively explore ideas together and do collaborative work, visits of several weeks to entire academic years are integral to the success of our programs. The Family Fund is a crucial resource for enabling scientists to make these extended visits to the KITP.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Program Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

Going International

Summary

KITP Graduate Fellows Program grows to include students from foreign institutions
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

Moving the Internet

Summary

Residence Project Required a Delicate Operation
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Matt Erickson, UCSB ETS Communications & Outreach Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

Tissue Cartography

Summary

Postdoctoral scholars have developed a way to reduce dynamic bio-image data to 2-D
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

The Nose Knows

Summary

Collaboration among international scientists is helping to resolve questions about the sense of smell
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016