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Topological Quantum Computing: The Devil is Not in the Details
"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
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
DAVID 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
Michael Graves Executes Design to Enhance Collaborations Among Physicists
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Polchinski Elected To National Academy of Sciences
Joseph 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
KITP Program Heralds Birth of String Cosmology
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Marking Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis
The 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
How Do Physics and Biology Go Together?
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