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KITP Ranks First In Research Impact
How can the performance of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics be measured and assessed?
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Inside the Virtual World of the KITP
‘A Wonderland of Far-Seeing on the Web’
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Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter
Condensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
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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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