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Director's Letter - Winter 2009
Summary Last April the KITP was reviewed by the NSF in a midterm review of our five-year contract.Read more
David Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009
Rice Endows Fund to Make KITP More Family Friendly
SummaryThe Family Fund enables families — especially those in which the physicist is also the mother of young children — to participate in the weeks- and months-long collaborative research opportunities that are the hallmark of KITP programming.
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KITP Ranks First In Research Impact
SummaryHow can the performance of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics be measured and assessed?
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Inside the Virtual World of the KITP
Summary‘A Wonderland of Far-Seeing on the Web’
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Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter
SummaryCondensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
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What Is Special About the KITP Mode For Doing Science?
SummaryThe KITP enables scientists to interact in a way that differs significantly from the ways provided by the customary venues for interaction, as the following account shows.
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How Brains Think About Themselves When They Come Together to Consider That Question Systematically
SummaryHow have brains been optimized over the course of evolution to be very good at what they do? How have evolutionary forces and natural selection shaped brain architecture?
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How Do Stars Form? Differently, at Different Cosmic Times
SummaryHow rapidly do stars form? What explains the distribution of the mass of the stars that form?
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