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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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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

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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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

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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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Director's Letter - Winter 2009

Last April the KITP was reviewed by the NSF in a midterm review of our five-year contract.
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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 Newsletter, Spring 2008

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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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

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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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008