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Date
Activity
Name
Title
Video
Available
Slides
Available
2025-05-15
friends
Murray-Clay, Ruth
(UC Santa Cruz)
Making Chemically Diverse Planets out of Average Galactic Material
Yes
No
2024-05-02
tde24
Metzger, Brian
(Columbia University)
Related Words:
ns
What makes the light in TDEs?
Yes
No
2023-08-07
morpho23
Bergmann, Dominique
(Stanford)
Making and breaking patterns in plant leaves
Yes
No
2023-06-30
brainlearn23
Ahissar, Merav
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Goldt, Sebastian
(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati)
Related Words:
modes
,
neural
Akrami, Athena
(University College London)
Related Words:
discussion
,
learning
Discussion: making predictions concrete
Yes
No
2022-10-24
microbes22
Nimwegen, Erik Van
(Univ. of Basel)
Related Words:
bacterial
,
evolution
,
regulatory
How do single bacterial cells make decisions?
Yes
No
2022-09-12
dynisq_c22
Preskill, John
(Caltech)
Related Words:
black
,
entanglement
,
information
,
quantum
,
robust
Making Predictions in a Quantum World
Yes
Yes
2021-04-28
booktalks
McCray, Patrick
(UCSB)
Making Art Work: Art and Technology in the Age of Apollo
Yes
No
2021-03-30
whitedwarfs_c21
Townsley, Dean
(Alabama)
Related Words:
classical
,
novae
,
white
The makings of models for white dwarf supernovae
Yes
Yes
2019-10-01
topoquant_c19
Simon, Jonathan
(University of Chicago)
Related Words:
auditory
,
brain
Making Interacting Topological Matter from Light
Yes
Yes
2019-05-30
gravast19
Farmer, Rob
(Univ. of Amsterdam)
How to Make Black Holes
Yes
No
2018-08-16
snav18
Scholz, Monika
(Princeton University)
Encoding information: Decision-making in feeding and foraging
Yes
No
2018-08-14
snav18
Hein, Andrew
(NOAA)
Sensing and decision-making in natural ecosystems
Yes
Yes
2018-05-15
colloq
Deutsch, Josh
(UCSC)
Making a computer out of junk DNA -- Physics Department Colloquium
Yes
No
2018-03-28
suspensions18
Jerolmack, Douglas
(Univ. of Penn)
Related Words:
debris
,
flows
,
making
,
montecito
,
mudslides
,
physics
The Physics of Debris Flows: Making the Montecito Mudslides[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Chalk Talk
Yes
Yes
2018-03-01
suspensions18
Jerolmack, Douglas
(Univ. of Penn)
Related Words:
debris
,
flows
,
making
,
montecito
,
mudslides
,
physics
Making the Montecito Mudslides: Unpacking the physics of debris flows[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Special Seminar
Yes
No
2018-02-01
joint98
Maldacena, Juan
(IAS)
Related Words:
amplitudes
,
black
,
gravity
,
hole
,
matrix
,
model
,
point
,
wormholes
Making a wormhole: Understanding Global AdS
2
Yes
Yes
2017-05-31
galhalo17
Oh, Peng
(UCSB)
Related Words:
turbulence
Make it. Shake it. Bake it. Warm ionized gas in the CGM
Yes
Yes
2017-05-09
stars17
Saders, Jennifer van
(Carnegie Observatories)
Making sense of stellar rotation observed with Kepler: Gyrocronology, magnetism and a Sun in transition
Yes
No
2017-03-14
stars17
Heuvel, Ed van den
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Related Words:
binaries
,
ray
,
x
,
x-ray
Making Wolf-Rayet X-ray Binaries and double black holes through evolution of High-Mass X-ray binaries with stable Roche-lobe overflow
Yes
Yes
2017-02-09
disks_c17
Tchekhovskoy, Alexander
(LBL)
What makes a good jet?
Yes
No
2016-11-30
topoquant16
Zaletel, Mike
(Princeton)
Related Words:
symmetry
Symmetry constraints in quantum materials: making the most of seeing nothing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Colloquium
Yes
No
2016-08-08
gwaves_m16
Holz, Daniel
(Univ. Chicago)
Related Words:
high
,
high-redshift
,
lensing
,
redshift
,
standard
How does the Universe make LIGO's black holes?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard Lunch
Yes
No
2015-05-06
colloq
Pesic, Peter
(St. John's College and Harvard University)
Music and the making of modern science
Yes
Yes
2014-03-04
neuro14
Fukai, Tomoki
(RIKEN)
Neural activity sequence in prefrontal cortex for sensory-guided decision making
Yes
Yes
2013-08-12
morpho13
Lecuit, Thomas
(Aix Marseille Univ.)
Related Words:
embryo
,
mechanics
,
morphogenesis
,
tissue
The Making of an Embryo: Information and Mechanics[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard Lunch
Yes
No
2013-04-08
primocosmo13
Komatsu, Eiichiro
(MPIA)
Making sense of the "north-south" asymmetry
Yes
Yes
2013-03-21
coldmoles13
Saenz, Alejandro
(Humboldt Univ.)
Related Words:
molecules
Making ultracold molecules using confinement
Yes
Yes
2013-03-02
qcontrolt_c13
Miller, Dwayne
(MPSD/Hamburg and Univ. Toronto)
Making the Molecular Movie: The Chemists' Gedanken Experiment Enters the Lab Frame
Yes
Yes
2013-02-26
qcontrol_c13
Wilhelm-Mauch, Frank
(Saarland Univ.)
Making Optimal Control Work for Superconducting Qubits
Yes
Yes
2012-08-03
chirps_c12
Miller, Cole
(Univ. Maryland)
Related Words:
black
,
holes
So What Happens When We Make a Detection of GWs From CBC...?
Yes
Yes
2012-02-17
dwarfgal_c12
Strigari, Louis
(Stanford Univ.)
Making Heads or Tails of Dark Matter Detection Results
Yes
Yes
2011-05-25
biopoly_c11
Phillips, Robert
(Caltech)
How Viruses Make New Viruses: A Single-Molecule View
Yes
No
2010-12-10
resident
Kaplan, Lila Rose
(KITP Playwright-in-Residence)
How to Make Good Science into a Great Talk? Learn Secrets from Theatre -- an Interactive Workshop
Yes
No
2010-10-25
compqcm10
Prokofiev, Nikolay
(UMass)
Feynman's Diagrams to High-order: Whether and When They Make Sense
Yes
No
2010-04-16
resident
Courtland, Rachel
(Brigitte Roethlein)
Making the News: The Promises and Perils of the Press Release
Yes
No
2010-01-28
evocell10
Saxton, Bill
(UCSC)
Making Mitochondria Move... Fighting or Facilitating Entropy?
Yes
Yes
2010-01-20
evocell10
Lynch, Mike
(Indiana Univ.)
Related Words:
biology
,
cell
,
evolution
,
evolutionary
,
genomes
,
introduction
What Would it Take to Make an Evolutionary Cell Biology?
Yes
No
2009-11-11
qinfo09
Hastings, Matthew
(UCSB)
Making Almost Commuting Matrices Commute
Yes
No
2009-11-05
excitcm_c09
Kotliar, Gabriel
(Rutgers)
Related Words:
correlated
,
dynamical
,
field
,
mean
Towards First Principles Electronic Structure Method Based on Dynamical Mean Field Theory: What Can we Currently Do and What Needs to be Done to Make it Happen
Yes
Yes
2009-10-01
qinfo09
Landau, Zeph
(UC Berkeley)
The Detectability Lemma: Making Sense of the Notion of Quantum Constraint Violation
Yes
Yes
2009-09-18
morphodyn_m09
Luria, Victor
(Columbia Univ.)
Noise and Decision-Making in Neural Circuit Assembly
Yes
Yes
2008-03-18
brain08
Firestein, Stuart
(Columbia Univ)
How Does the Brain Make Sense of Scents?
Yes
No
2008-02-14
partcosmo08
Kofman, Lev
(CITA)
Making and Probing Inflation and Reheating
Yes
Yes
2007-12-03
stars07
Hartmann, Lee
(University of Michigan)
Making Star Clusters
Yes
Yes
2007-09-11
stars07
Schmidt, Wolfram
(Univ. Würzburg)
Properties of supersonic turbulence: Does the forcing make a difference?
Yes
Yes
2007-04-27
coldatoms_c07
Kotochigova, Svetlana
(NIST)
Making Cold Molecules and Correlated States with Microwave Fields
No
No
2007-03-20
snovae_c07
Stefano, Rosanne Di
(Harvard)
Related Words:
ia
,
progenitors
,
type
Are there enough Supersoft Sources to make the Ia's?
Yes
Yes
2007-03-20
snovae_c07
Herwig, Falk
(Keele Univ.)
Stellar Evolution Update for <8 Solar Mass Stars and Maximum Mass that makes a White Dwarf
Yes
Yes
2006-05-16
qubit_c06
Freedman, Mike
(Microsoft)
Things Golden: What makes the (double) fibonacci theory unique and how should we look for it?
Yes
Yes
2006-02-06
grb_c06
Proga, Daniel
(UNLV)
Related Words:
accretion
,
disks
Making a GRB Jet
Yes
Yes
2003-03-18
bionet03
Yates, Andy
(University College London)
Cytokine Signaling in T-Cells: A Model for Cellular Decision-Making
No
Yes
2002-10-17
cem02
Sarma, Sankar Das
(University of Maryland)
Related Words:
beyond
,
effects
,
electron
,
graphene
,
hall
,
quantum
,
semiconductors
,
spin
,
systems
How to Make Semiconductors Ferromagnetic: A First Course in Spintronics
No
Yes
2002-04-24
cfluids_e02
Milner, Scott
(Exxon)
Making Sure Macroscopic Models Make Sense
No
No
2002-03-06
colloq
Owen, Ben
(University of Wisconsin)
The r-Mode Instability, or: How the Coriolis Force Makes Gravitational Waves
No
No
1999-11-17
susy_c99
Strassler, Matthew
(IAS)
How a CFT Can Make the (S)Flavor Problem Irrelevant
No
No
1998-06-22
strings98
Ketov, Sergei
Making Manifest the Symmetry Enhancement for Coinciding BPS Branes
No
Yes
1998-03-31
becconf
Stwalley, William
(Univ. of Connecticut)
Making Molecules at MicroKelvin
No
Yes