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Earth’s Climate: More Science Needed
If there was one overriding conclusion to be drawn from the KITP pioneering effort to look at “The Physics of Climate Change,” it is “more science needed.”
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Likely Discovery Of Faint and Fast Supernova Confirms Predicted Explosion
An explosion — observable in theory, but never seen on the night sky – emerged a little over two years ago from calculations carried out by a team of astrophysicists, including KITP permanent member Lars Bildsten and postdoctoral fellow Nevin Weinberg, as well as UCSB physics graduate student Ken Shen and Bildsten’s long-time Dutch collaborator Gijs Nelemans of Radboud University in Nijmegen.
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Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist
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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Director's Letter - Winter 2009
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
The 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
How 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
‘A Wonderland of Far-Seeing on the Web’
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Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter
Condensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
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