This week I am conferencing. I'm in Santa Barbara, California, at a conference called "Stellar Death and Supernovae". As you might guess from the name of the conference, we're spending the week talking about the ends of the lives of stars (the tiny points of light in the sky, not the stars of the silver screen that live about 60 miles down the coastal highway in Hollywood).
The conference is being held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on the campus...
