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What Is Special About the KITP Mode For Doing Science?
The KITP enables scientists to interact in a way that differs significantly from the ways provided by the customary venues for interaction, as the following account shows.
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How Brains Think About Themselves When They Come Together to Consider That Question Systematically
How have brains been optimized over the course of evolution to be very good at what they do? How have evolutionary forces and natural selection shaped brain architecture?
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How Do Stars Form? Differently, at Different Cosmic Times
How rapidly do stars form? What explains the distribution of the mass of the stars that form?
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Observers of Star-Forming Confer With Its Simulators
Within the “Star Formation ” program, Alyssa Goodman, of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ran a workshop on large surveys of nearby star formation regions.
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Coordinating Housing Resembles 3-Dimensional Chess
Director David Gross is accustomed to explaining the logistics of KITP operations to audiences around the world who wish to emulate it as a retreat facility for scientific research.
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Why Care About Type Ia Supernovae?
In April of 1006 occurred the brightest stellar event so far in recorded history, visible for months at a time, on and off, for years afterward.
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From the Heart
"Cardiac Dynamics,” a month-long, KITP mini-program held in the summer of 2006, brought together physicists, cardiologists, and biomedical scientists and engineers for interdisciplinary collaboration on the application of techniques of non-linear dynamics to understanding the sub-set of cardiac arrhythmias that are potentially fatal.
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Scholars Program Infuses Vitality Into Research Efforts Of Physicists Who Mostly Teach Undergraduates
“Coming to Santa Barbara as a KITP scholar is like joining a brotherhood in a place of worship..."
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