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Dynamics of Cats
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KITP:
LHC bounds Higgs
Category: KITP
Summary of results on Higgs particle on LHC workshop at KITP...
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Sweet SUSY at LHC
Category: astro
hangin' out at KITP sneaking into the LHC workshop talks, sort of liveblog of the constraints on supersymmetry from preliminary LHC results....
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KITP - the day the ocean farted
Category: KITP
I am visiting the lovely Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, again. Last thursday we had an unusual occurrence, the ocean farted....
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KITP: migration, violence and the future for the planets
Category: astro
It is the imaginary part of the Love Number that determines the physical interaction: the energy transfer is proportional to the frequency and the spin depends on the multiplicity of the perturbing term.
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KITP: making planets stick
Category: astro
Exoplanets Rising continues theoretical rumination, as we contemplate formation, migration, water delivery and evolution Johansen and Lissauer on oligarchic models before lunch. Then Mayer on collapse of Too Big Too Fail blobs before Chambers and Raymond return to rocks...
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KiTP: Shock Planetary Discovery Announcement
Category: KITP
Surprise discovery announcement at the Exoplanet UpRising workshop! In a dramatic change in schedule, Fieffe Menteur, a junior researcher at the French Academy for Keplerian Exoplanets broke embargo and revealed the first discovery of a habitable exoplanet!...
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KITP: habitable worlds
Category: astro
Finding and characterizing habitable exoplanets. Enric Palle on Earth as an exoplanet. Drake Deming on using JWST to find exoplanets Then Lisa Kaltenegger on biosignatures Jim Kasting on habitability and 3D GCMs....
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KITP: surfaces and atmospheres
Category: astro
Maybe if we said NASA was looking for "Oil Worlds" the funding for exoplanets would sharply increase...
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KITP: Imaging and Microlensing
Category: KITP
Next we review microlensing surveys for planets and then direct imaging surveys. Scott Gaudi up first on microlensing. Interesting statistics on preponderance of solar like planetary systems. Hints of free floating planets seen. Paul Kalas on direct detections. Also...
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