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Observers of Star-Forming Confer With Its Simulators
SummaryWithin the “Star Formation ” program, Alyssa Goodman, of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ran a workshop on large surveys of nearby star formation regions.
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Coordinating Housing Resembles 3-Dimensional Chess
SummaryDirector David Gross is accustomed to explaining the logistics of KITP operations to audiences around the world who wish to emulate it as a retreat facility for scientific research.
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Why Care About Type Ia Supernovae?
SummaryIn April of 1006 occurred the brightest stellar event so far in recorded history, visible for months at a time, on and off, for years afterward.
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From the Heart
Summary"Cardiac Dynamics,” a month-long, KITP mini-program held in the summer of 2006, brought together physicists, cardiologists, and biomedical scientists and engineers for interdisciplinary collaboration on the application of techniques of non-linear dynamics to understanding the sub-set of cardiac arrhythmias that are potentially fatal.
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Scholars Program Infuses Vitality Into Research Efforts Of Physicists Who Mostly Teach Undergraduates
Summary“Coming to Santa Barbara as a KITP scholar is like joining a brotherhood in a place of worship..."
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String Phenomenology Revs Up in Anticipation Of LHC Turn on
SummaryString theory, initially conceived in the late 1960s to explain the strong force that traps quark triplets in protons and neutrons, is no longer all that “new.”
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Polchinski Receives Prestigious Heineman Prize
SummaryJoseph Polchinski, a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, has been named 2007 recipient of the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
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Structure of Dark Matter, The Backbone of the Universe
SummaryQuestions of Dark Matter Sub-Structure, Isothermal Relation Between Dark and Visible Matter Dominate Discussion
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