KITP News Archive

Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters

Rice Endows Fund to Make KITP More Family Friendly

The Family Fund enables families — especially those in which the physicist is also the mother of young children — to participate in the weeks- and months-long collaborative research opportunities that are the hallmark of KITP programming.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

Secondary School Teachers Sample Stellar Treats

On March 17 the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics hosted its annual conference for secondary school science teachers from throughout the United States
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Thermonuclear Explosions Cause Most Heated of Discussions

KITP’s Resident Astrophysicist Describes Fusion Reactions
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Stellar End Products: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Black Holes

Degenerate Star Program Participants Grapple With Many Open Questions
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Structure of Dark Matter, The Backbone of the Universe

Questions of Dark Matter Sub-Structure, Isothermal Relation Between Dark and Visible Matter Dominate Discussion
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Polchinski Receives Prestigious Heineman Prize

Joseph Polchinski, a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, has been named 2007 recipient of the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

String Phenomenology Revs Up in Anticipation Of LHC Turn on

String theory, initially conceived in the late 1960s to explain the strong force that traps quark triplets in protons and neutrons, is no longer all that “new.”
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

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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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

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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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

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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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007

Complexity Expert Plays Key Role Mixing Physics and Ecology

Three or, perhaps, four significant innovations characterized the “Physics of Climate Change” program...
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Novel Research Collaboration Leads to Discovery Of ‘Fire in the Earth System’

Fire is to be considered not only as a consequence of global warming, but also causal in the inexorable chain reaction of a positive feedback mechanism.
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Clouds Raise Many a Question

Including the Curious Case of Cover Consistency
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

When Collaborators Are a Couple: Globular Clusters Provide Case Study

He was an assistant professor at MIT; she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. They met at one scientific conference, and married at another (the latter, at least, in scenic Aspen).
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Graphene May Change the Way the World Works

But What Rivets Theorists’ Attention Is Its Electrons Behaving Like Neutrinos
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

High Technology Emerges From Low Dimensional Electron Systems

KITP Program Investigates Variety of Phenomena That Could Transform Our World
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

What Does Theoretical Physics Bring to Biology?

First Incumbent of Susan F. Gurley Chair Discusses Ideas That Animate His Research
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Kachru and Silverstein Join KITP

In Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist, Turned Theoretical Biologist, Named First Holder
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist

In Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist, Turned Theoretical Biologist, Named First Holder
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009

Earth’s Climate: More Science Needed

If there was one overriding conclusion to be drawn from the KITP pioneering effort to look at “The Physics of Climate Change,” it is “more science needed.”
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KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009