Opportunities

KITP Scholars - Spend two weeks per year here.
Graduate Fellows - Nominate your best student.
Postdocs - Postdoc applications-deadline Dec. 1.
Program Suggestions - We need your ideas!
Rapid Response Workshops - Explore important advances.

 

Current Activities(more info)

Happy Holidays!
There are no scheduled activities for today.

 

Upcoming Programs(more info)

Evolutionary Perspectives on Mechanisms of Cellular Organization
Towards Material Design Using Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
The Theory and Observation of Exoplanets
Strings at the LHC and in the Early Universe
The Physics of Glasses: Relating Metallic Glasses to Molecular, Polymeric and Oxide Glasses
Electron Glasses
X-Ray Frontiers
Langlands-Type Dualities in Quantum Field Theory
Beyond Standard Optical Lattices
Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience
Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems: Computational and Conceptual Approaches
more…

 

Upcoming Conferences(more info)

Materials by Design
Exoplanets Rising
Emerging Concepts in Glass Physics
X-ray Science in the 21st Century
Out of Equilibrium Quantum Systems
Frontiers of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules

 

Today's Events(more info)

Thursday, Dec 24

No talks scheduled for this day.

 

Teachers' Conferences(more info)

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Community

Visit our Community pages to learn more about the KITP!

 

KITP News(more info)

  • KITP Public Lecture Wednesday, December 16, 8:00 pm

    Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed presents “Exploring the Dark Universe”
    [Flyer] [Public lecture page[Full story]

  • New Type of Supernova Explosion Detected Was Predicted by KITP Theoretical Physicists

    A class of supernova, discovered by scientists at Berkeley, may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at KITP and UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work. [Full Story]

  • Entrepreneur Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology

    In honor of his mother, Gus Gurley establishes a chair whose first holder is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.
    [Full Story][Talks



image credit: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

image credit: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi