Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Research in the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) spans a wide range of topics from understanding the fundamental nature of forces, particles and space-time geometry, to condensed matter physics and quantum information.  There is considerable cross-fertilization in some of these endeavors with faculty in the SLAC Theory Group and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

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