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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.Read more
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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How to Tell a Fermion From a Boson
SummaryAll 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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Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP
SummaryIn 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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Thinking About Thinking About Quantum Mechanics
SummaryPossible Good News for Aging Quantum Physicists
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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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