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Stellar End Products: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Black Holes

Summary

Degenerate Star Program Participants Grapple With Many Open Questions
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Thermonuclear Explosions Cause Most Heated of Discussions

Summary

KITP’s Resident Astrophysicist Describes Fusion Reactions
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Secondary School Teachers Sample Stellar Treats

Summary

On March 17 the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics hosted its annual conference for secondary school science teachers from throughout the United States
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Director's Letter - Spring 2007

Summary At the end of May, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC) was inaugurated in Beijing in a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People.
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David Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Rapid Response to Supersolidity: ‘Is It There or Is It Not?’ May Be the Answer as Well as the Question

Summary

“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

How to Tell a Fermion From a Boson

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All particles in three-dimensional space are either bosons or fermions. What distinguishes one from the other is not a simple matter...
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP

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In the spring of 1997, former graduate students at the UC San Diego invited Michael Freedman, a topologist awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, to give a talk at Microsoft Research. At the conclusion of that talk, an employee then there, physicist Nathan Myrvold, offered Freedman a job to work, more or less, on whatever he wanted.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

Thinking About Thinking About Quantum Mechanics

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Possible Good News for Aging Quantum Physicists
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006