Suggestions For KITP Programs

Input from the scientific community is central to determining the activities of the KITP. The KITP invites program suggestions in areas where KITP activities can make significant contributions. The main emphasis is on full, multi-month programs, but ideas for workshops or mini-programs lasting a few weeks or longer are also welcome. Most of the KITP's programs have been on subjects which involve one or more of the areas of astrophysics, atomic physics, biological physics, condensed matter physics, elementary particle physics, gravitation, and mathematical physics. We encourage innovative ideas and are open to new areas that connect broadly to physics. The criteria for the selection of programs include intellectual significance, timeliness, experimental or observational significance, and availability of outstanding participants. Other criteria concern the broader impact of the activity, such as the potential for promoting training of students and postdocs, for broadening the participation of groups that are underrepresented in physics, and for communicating and disseminating results to the wider community of scientists and non-experts.

Final decisions on programs for the year 2011-2012 will be made at the Advisory Board meeting in February, 2010. Proposals and suggestions should therefore be received well before this meeting. "Pre-proposal" submissions need not be elaborate -- a title, a paragraph or two explaining the idea, and some suggestions for organizers and key program participants will be sufficient. Members of the advisory board will review these pre-proposals, encourage the development of promising ones into full proposals, and guide coordination of proposals in related areas. Full proposals may also be submitted from the outset. The KITP director, David Gross (805-893-7337) or the deputy director Martin Einhorn (805-893-6309) will be pleased to discuss ideas for programs and to answer questions you may have about process of proposing them.

Submit a pre-proposal now.

View guidelines for writing a proposal.