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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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Marking Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis
SummaryThe Year of Physics celebrates the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s annus mirabilis of 1905 — the year he published three landmark papers (each in a different area of physics) that changed the course of physics forever, and radically altered human conceptions of reality.
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Biological Physics
SummaryHow Do Physics and Biology Go Together?
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How Is Birdsong Like a Tennis Serve?
SummaryHow 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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