Sunday, October 27, 2013
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) has taken first-place honors in the Species Translation Challenge organized by IBM Research and Philip Morris International (PMI) R&D. Adel Dayarian and Sahand Hormoz, postdoctoral researchers at the KITP, and their collaborators Gyan Bhanot, professor of physics and molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers University, and Michael Biehl, professor of computer science at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, reported their findings at the sbv IMPROVER Symposium held this week in Athens, Greece.