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High School Teachers Need Physics Now
SummarySome 70 teachers of physics came from throughout the United States to the KITP’s fifth conference for high school teachers — this one on “Nanoscience and Quantum Computing.”
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Solid-State Physics: Quantum Choreography Inside Crystals
SummaryFisher Frames History of Field for Focus on Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Topological Quantum Computing: The Devil is Not in the Details
Summary"Interdisciplinary" is a word that has gotten a lot of press in the past decade’s reporting on prospects for scientific discovery...
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Director's Letter - Spring 2006
Summary This spring we have run two programs that get to the heart of quantum mechanics.Read more
David Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006
KITP Director Awarded 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
SummaryDAVID J. GROSS, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called “the Standard Model” of the quantum mechanical picture of reality.
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New Kohn Hall Proves Whole Can Be More Than Sum Of Old and New Parts
SummaryMichael Graves Executes Design to Enhance Collaborations Among Physicists
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Polchinski Elected To National Academy of Sciences
SummaryJoseph G. Polchinski, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and KITP permanent member, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences at the annual spring meeting.
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Newly Devised Test May Soon Confirm Strings As Fundamental Constituent of Matter, Energy
SummaryKITP Program Heralds Birth of String Cosmology
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