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Dynamics of Cats
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KITP: Statistical Mechanics of Money
Category: KITP
Another topical colloquium here at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics... "Money, It's a Gas"...
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Jesusita Fire
Category: KITP
it turns out that hot tubs and light ashfall are a bad mix...
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satellite fire map
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MODIS map of the Jesusita fire click of Jesusita tag on the right side...
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KITP: Jesusita Fire
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The Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara has broken out and spread far west and south, situation is looking very serious, there will be a lot of loss tonight, evacuation orders extend to Goleta, refugees are moving to UCSB, and...
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KITP: ring of fire
Category: KITP
it is thursday afternoon, temperature is almost 100F and the winds are picking up, right on schedule looking through the window on the other side from my office I can see the fire flaring up looks bad...
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KITP: Topology of Flu Strains
Category: science
evolutionary dynamics of influenza! and how flu immunity is defined by you Hamming distance in protein bit space...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:07 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
KITP: Cancer Clone Wars
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Clone Wars: how are stockbrokers like colorectal cancer cells?...
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KITP: Smoke Over Water
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yesterday, as we were headed into an informal research group discussion, one of the locals grabbed me and pointed out the window at a small plume of smoke on the mountain above Santa Barbara...
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KITP: from chemistry to cooling to computing
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General introduction to optimal control theory and how to control matter at the quantum level...
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