KITP News Archive

Program on 'Low Dimensional Electron Systems' looks at phenomena with the potential to transform our three-dimensional world.

EIGHT scientists whose discoveries have dramatically expanded human understanding in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience have been recognized with the award of the million-dollar Kavli Prizes.

New research perspective sees wildfire as global phenomenon indicative of feedback mechanism whereby widespread fire is both effect and cause of accelerating climate change.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) - Astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara are the first scientists to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct radius measurement of a rare white dwarf composed of pure helium. The results will be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. These observations are the first to confirm a theory about a certain type of white dwarf star.

Cloud physics is the largest source of uncertainty in the short term in predicting the climate.

Professor Adam Burrows presents “The New Century of Exoplanets”

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Boldly innovative program probes "Physics of Climate Change."

In the 1990's, astronomers discovered the first planets outside the solar system. Since then, in what has become a torrent, more than 360 planets have been found, and the pace of discovery is quickening.
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Not only do we have a new look, we also have a new site structure. You may find that some things have moved, but this will give you an opportunity to explore the site. Report Problems

Professor Paul Nurse presents “The great Ideas of biology”
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A class of supernova, discovered by scientists at Berkeley, may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at KITP and UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work.

In honor of his mother, Gus Gurley establishes a chair whose first holder is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.
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Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed presents “Exploring the Dark Universe”

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David Gross Reports on State of the KITP as Presented to Recent NSF Review Committee.
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Shamit Kachru and Eva Silverstein will join the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in the fall of 2009, jointly filling a KITP permanent member position.

An article, “Fire in the Earth System,” published in the April 24, 2009 issue of “Science,” calls for the dynamic incorporation of fire as both an effect and a cause in models of global climate and its change. The article’s insights came from a workshop on fire ecology that occurred in the summer of 2008 as part of the KITP program “The Physics of Climate Change.”

Professor Maria Spiropulu presents “The Universe in Collisions”
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Professor Sankar Das Sarma presents “Quantum Reality”
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Hartle Honored for 'Outstanding Accomplishments' in Gravitational Physics

Professor Michael Freedman presents “Topology, Physics, and Complexity: The Birthing of the Quantum Computer.”
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