Featured Newsletter Articles
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How Is Birdsong Like a Tennis Serve?
How the young bird learns song appears to bear a striking resemblance not only to how a human baby learns speech, but also to how general goal-directed behaviors involving fine muscle control are learned.
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Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
With Shraiman’s Appointment, Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
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Point of View: Physicists and Biologists Watch Fruitfly Movie
An English literature professor remarked to his graduate students in a class on 20th century American novelists, “Point of view is everything in fiction.”
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Understanding the Brain
The Ultimate Interdisciplinary Rendezvous?
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World’s Top Theoretical Physicists Converge to Consider ‘Future of Physics’
Celebrating 25 Years of Santa Barbara as a Theoretical Physics Center
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Eminent Biologist Embraces Physics
Arnold Levine, a molecular biologist, and an authority on the molecular basis of cancer, gave one of the KITP 2005 Public Lectures on “Genetic Predispositions for Cancer in Humans.”
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Director's Letter - Fall 2005
2004-05 has been an exciting year for the KITP.
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Optimization: the Renewed Quest for a Physics of Biology
One of the main missions of the KITP is to catalyze and to promote collaborations, the hallmark of 21-century science.
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