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2026-04-06bblunchHow your heart works: A Physics PerspectiveYesNo
2024-05-07gapless24
Chubukov, Andrey (University of Minnesota)
Eliashberg theory of quantum criticality. When it works and when it doesn't.YesNo
2023-06-27brainlearn23
Brady, Tim (UC San Diego)
Consequences of statistical learning on perception & working memoryYesYes
2023-01-25galevo23
Behroozi, Peter (University of Arizona)
Tutorial: Galaxy scaling relations through working with Universe MachineYesNo
2022-10-19plecture
Bodenschatz, Eberhard (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
Related Words: chemotaxis, turbulence
Why Face Masks WorkYesNo
2021-04-28booktalksMaking Art Work: Art and Technology in the Age of ApolloYesNo
2021-03-11staircase21
Dif-Pradalier, Guilhem (CEA Cadarache)
Related Words: staircases
Read, Peter (Oxford)
Working group on Plasma Dynamics ApplicationsYesNo
2021-03-10staircase21
Paparella, Francesco (NYU)
Related Words: layering
Garaud, Pascale (UCSC)
Related Words: convection, layering
Ma, Yuchen (Univ. of Toronto)
Working group on Mechanisms for Layering: layering in double diffusive convectionYesNo
2021-03-09staircase21
Hughes, David (Univ. of Leeds)
Heinonen, Robin (Uni. Roma II)
Working group on Transport Barriers: Momentum Transport BarriersYesNo
2021-03-08staircase21
Whalen, Caitlin (Univ. of Washington)
Legg, Sonya (Princeton)
Fine, Effie (Woods Hole)
Working group on Climate Applications: Incorporating the large-scale influence of oceanic staircases into ocean general circulation modelsYesNo
2021-03-05staircase21Working group on Interface StructuresYesNo
2021-03-04staircase21
Dif-Pradalier, Guilhem (CEA Cadarache)
Related Words: staircases
Kosuga, Yusuke (Kyushu Univ.)
Working group on Plasma Dynamics Applications: Avalanches and staircasesYesNo
2021-03-03staircase21 Working group on Mechanisms for LayeringYesYes
2021-03-02staircase21
Gurcan, Ozgur (Polytechnique)
Knobloch, Edgar (Berkeley)
Cope, Laura (Cambridge)
Working group on Transport Barriers: Symmetry breakingYesYes
2021-02-25staircase21 Working group on Plasma Dynamics Applications: Impact of boundaries, sources and dissipation on layeringYesYes
2021-02-24staircase21
Pruzina, Paul (Univ. of Leeds)
Working group on Mechanisms for Layering: What can k-epsilon models tell us about layering?YesNo
2021-02-23staircase21
Frishman, Anna (Technion)
Sarazin, Yanick (CEA Cadarache)
Working group on Transport Barriers: Transport barrier mechanismsYesNo
2021-02-22staircase21
Bebieva, Yana (Florida State)
Working group on Climate Applications: Staircases resulting from ice-ocean interactionsYesNo
2021-02-18staircase21
Varennes, Robin (LASP CU-Boulder)
Working group on Plasma Dynamics Applications: Impact of external fields on layeringYesNo
2021-02-17staircase21 Working group on Mechanisms for Layering: Cahn-Hilliard equationYesNo
2021-02-16staircase21
Dritschel, David (St Andrews)
Garbet, Xavier (CEA Cadarache)
Tobias, Steve (Univ. of Leeds)
Related Words: dynamo, dynamos, solar, transport
Working group on Transport Barriers: Transport barrier formationYesNo
2021-02-15staircase21
Read, Peter (Oxford)
Working group on Climate Applications: Origins of PV staircases on JupiterYesNo
2019-11-13spinquant_c19
Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav (UCLA)
Related Words: spin
Putting magnetic vortices to work in spintronicsYesYes
2019-03-05gaia19Describe participants' work to the groupYesNo
2018-09-19brain18
Smith, Brian (Arizonia State University)
Plasticity-augmented working memory: How a sensory system can be tuned to detect predictive stimuli, filter out irrelevant ones, and identify noveltyYesNo
2018-07-19qthermo18
Everyone, (Everywhere)
Discussion on open issues concerning heat and work at the quantum levelYesNo
2018-06-27qthermo_c18Quantum fluctuation theorems, contextuality and work quasi-probabilitiesYesNo
2018-06-25qthermo_c18
Romito, Alessandro (Lancaster University)
Energy exchange in quantum measurement processes: from heat and work tracking to a repeated-measurement heat engineYesYes
2018-06-25qthermo_c18
Sampaio, Rui (Aalto Univ.)
The Impossible Quantum Work DistributionYesYes
2018-06-21qthermo18
Cosco, Francesco (University of Turku)
Quasi-periodic lattices as tunable quantum environments: memory effects and work statisticsYesYes
2018-06-21qthermo18
Maniscalco, Sabrina (University of Turku)
Related Words: quantum
Quasi-periodic lattices as tunable quantum environments: memory effects and work statisticsYesYes
2018-05-02colloqGeneral Relativity as a Hybrid theory: The Genesis of Einstein's work on the problem of motionYesYes
2018-03-16hpnc18Working Groups and the RMP/White PaperYesNo
2018-03-15hpnc18Discussion: Working Groups and the RMP/White PaperYesNo
2017-02-06disks_c17
Turner, Neal (JPL/Caltech)
Related Words: disks
Detecting transport processes at work in protostellar disksYesYes
2016-03-02colloq
José, Jorge (Indiana University)
How the statistical properties of human motions reveal some of the workings of our nervous systemYesNo
2015-09-11undergrad15Roadmap to the Stars: Working with CubeSats To Test Directed Energy PropulsionYesNo
2015-04-01resident
Farmelo, Graham (University of Cambridge Writer in Residence)
Related Words: theorist
My experiences and my current work on the relation between Math and Theoretical PhysicsYesNo
2014-10-31nonequil14
Sethna, James (Cornell University)
Sloppy Models and how science worksYesYes
2014-01-28bioacter14
Selinger, Jonathan (Kent State University)
Work in progress: Flow and phase separation of active spinnersYesYes
2013-02-26qcontrol_c13
Wilhelm-Mauch, Frank (Saarland Univ.)
Making Optimal Control Work for Superconducting QubitsYesYes
2013-02-20resident
Flam, Faye (KITP Journalist in Residence)
Related Words: science
How To Sell Your Science Without Selling Your Soul: How To Get The Media To Work For YouYesNo
2012-12-07topomat11Index Theorems: Why They Work, and Why Sometimes They Don'tYesNo
2012-10-02qdynamics12Work, Large Deviations, Universality and Casimir Effect in Quantum QuenchesYesYes
2012-05-09bitbranes12
Donnelly, William (Univ. Maryland)
Related Words: entanglement, entropy, gauge
Wall, Aron (UCSB)
Related Words: discussion, entanglement
Working group discussion: Black hole entanglement entropy and renormalizationYesNo
2012-04-12bitbranes12Working Group on Bulk LocalityYesNo
2012-04-10bitbranes12
Kabat, Dan (Lehman College-CUNY)
Working Group on Bulk LocalityYesYes
2012-04-04bitbranes12
Susskind, Leonard (Stanford)
Related Words: epr, er
Working Group on Issues in de Sitter SpaceYesNo
2012-03-28bitbranes12Working Group on Issues in de Sitter SpaceYesNo
2012-03-22dwarfgal12
Bunker, Andy (Univ. Oxford)
The Luminosity Function at High Redshift and Reionization: Do Dwarves do all the Work?YesYes
2012-03-21bitbranes12
Anninos, (Hartman)
Working Group on Quantum Framework for Eternal Inflation & dS/CFTYesNo
2011-10-04adscmt11
Mackenzie, Andy (Univ. St. Andrews)
Thermodynamics Near Magnetically Tuned Quantum Critical Points - Past Work and Future ProspectsYesYes
2011-05-17qcdscat11
Andersen, Jeppe (So. Denmark Univ.)
New Challenges to Theory in Describing LHC Collisions: Multi-Leg Amplitudes at WorkYesYes
2011-03-18gclusters_c11Optical Cluster-finding for Cosmology: The Dark Energy Survey and Beyond Brian F. Gerke, for the DES Clusters Working GroupNoYes
2010-11-24compqcm10
Refael, Gil (Caltech)
Putting Floquet Hamiltonians to Work: Dyson Singularity, Superfluid Enhancement, and Topological Phases in Time-periodic HamiltoniansYesYes
2010-08-12duallang_m10The Work of Argyres and SeibergYesYes
2010-08-12duallang_m10The Work of Argyres and Seiberg, Part IIYesYes
2009-11-24excitcm09The Unreasonable Accuracy of Asymptotic Expansions: Why Density Functional Theory WorksYesYes
2008-11-05fluctuate08Critical Casimir Forces at Work: Measuring and Tuning femto-Newton ForcesYesYes
2008-08-04langlands_m08
Frenkel, Edward (UC Berkeley)
Instantons beyond topological theory (joint work with Losev and Nekrasov)YesYes
2008-06-03dynamo08
Browning, Matthew (University of Chicago)
Brown, Benjamin (University of Colorado)
Toomre, Juri (JILA/Univ. Colorado)
Stellar Dynamos: Elements that workYesYes
2008-05-31lhct_c08
McFarland, Kevin (Univ. of Rochester)
"What do you mean you don't work at the LHC?" A report from the other frontiers of particle physics.YesYes
2006-08-30atto06
Scrinzi, Armin (Vienna Univ.)
Group Discussion Meeting No. 11: How MCTDHF Really WorksYesNo
2006-05-11qubit06Recent Work on a ModelYesNo
2006-05-03plecturePutting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information ScienceNoYes
2006-03-25spintr2_c06Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information ScienceYesYes
2005-06-13bblunchHow Astrophysical Disks WorkYesNo
2003-05-20glasses_c03
Achlioptas, Dimitris (Microsoft Research)
Locating the Thresholds for k-SAT and MAX l-SAT (talk based on joint works with C. Moore, A. Naor, and Y. Peres)NoYes
2003-03-24bionet03
Dunlap, Jay (Dartmouth)
How Does a Circadian Clock Work?NoYes
2002-11-26special
Gross, David (Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics)
Related Words: kitp, physics, string, theory, welcome
Inaugural Lecture: How the Nucleus Works: A Personal Journey in ScienceNoYes
2001-05-08infobio01
Hillis, D. (U. Texas)
How Do We Know if Phylogenetic Inference Works?NoNo