UCSB’s Kavli Institute Hosts Inaugural Physics Cafe

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How I wonder what you are.</p>

<p>From the moment humans first beheld the stars in the night sky, people have sought an answer to that line in the well-known English lullaby.</p>

<p>“Humans have always tried to understand what the lights in the sky are as well as their meaning and function,” Matteo Cantiello, an astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), told the standing-room-only crowd at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club in Santa Barbara on Wednesday night.</p>

<p>They had gathered for the inaugural Café KITP, a series whose motto is “Eat, THINK, and be merry!” to hear Cantiello’s talk on “Music of the Spheres: The Secret Songs of the Stars.”

<a href=“UCSB’s Kavli Institute Hosts Inaugural Physics Cafe | UCSB | Noozhawk”>http://www.noozhawk.com/article/ucsb_kavli_institute_hosts_inaugural_physics_cafe_20140404&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I’m following UCSB news now that my sons are both considering it as one of their final choices. Obviously there is a lot going on there, music events (no I don’t mean Deltopia, some rapper was there the day before) writer in residents established etc etc… but I thought their physics department deciding to put on talks at a cafe in Santa Barbara to packed houses was kind of cool. </p>