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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
SummaryKITP hosts physics café to begin an ongoing dialogue between physicists and the public
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Director's Letter - Winter 2015
Summary 2014 was quite the year for KITP.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Kachru and Silverstein Join KITP
SummaryIn Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist, Turned Theoretical Biologist, Named First Holder
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What Does Theoretical Physics Bring to Biology?
SummaryFirst Incumbent of Susan F. Gurley Chair Discusses Ideas That Animate His Research
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High Technology Emerges From Low Dimensional Electron Systems
SummaryKITP Program Investigates Variety of Phenomena That Could Transform Our World
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Graphene May Change the Way the World Works
SummaryBut What Rivets Theorists’ Attention Is Its Electrons Behaving Like Neutrinos
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When Collaborators Are a Couple: Globular Clusters Provide Case Study
SummaryHe was an assistant professor at MIT; she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. They met at one scientific conference, and married at another (the latter, at least, in scenic Aspen).
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Novel Research Collaboration Leads to Discovery Of ‘Fire in the Earth System’
SummaryFire is to be considered not only as a consequence of global warming, but also causal in the inexorable chain reaction of a positive feedback mechanism.
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