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Kachru and Silverstein Join KITP

In 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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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

What Does Theoretical Physics Bring to Biology?

First Incumbent of Susan F. Gurley Chair Discusses Ideas That Animate His Research
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

High Technology Emerges From Low Dimensional Electron Systems

KITP Program Investigates Variety of Phenomena That Could Transform Our World
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Graphene May Change the Way the World Works

But What Rivets Theorists’ Attention Is Its Electrons Behaving Like Neutrinos
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

When Collaborators Are a Couple: Globular Clusters Provide Case Study

He 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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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Novel Research Collaboration Leads to Discovery Of ‘Fire in the Earth System’

Fire 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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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Complexity Expert Plays Key Role Mixing Physics and Ecology

Three or, perhaps, four significant innovations characterized the “Physics of Climate Change” program...
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Clouds Raise Many a Question

Including the Curious Case of Cover Consistency
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009