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INSTITUTE PRODUCES SECOND NEWSLETTER (8/06)
The institute announces Volume 2, Number 1, the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of the KITP Newsletter (PDF), written and edited by Jacquelyn Savani and designed by Charmien Carrier. News and stories include the Rapid Response to Supersolidity, and Matthew Fisher's Quantum Choreography Inside Crystals.THE KITP MARKS THE PASSING OF BELOVED SANTA BARBARA PHILANTHROPIST ELI LURIA (5/06)
Friend to the Institute and a member of its community board, The Director's Council.
[Article] [Eli Luria].KITP POST DOC USES HALF MILLION $1 BILLS TO MODEL HUMAN TRAVEL (1/06)
Tracking the dispersal of bank notes, and therefore human travelling behavior, provided data describing a process of many small random steps with occasional large jumps, as well as long waiting times between displacements, described by post-doctoral fellow at the KITP Lars Hufnagel, and his colleagues at the Max Plank Institute (press release). These findings are fundamentally important for modelling the spread of human diseases, and are featured as a Letter in the January 26 issue of Nature (article).KITP PERMANENT MEMBER ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (4/05)
The nation's preeminent learned society announced its newly elected Fellows in April 2005. Included among the list of Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, Guggenheim Fellows, accomplished artists and outstanding professionals is Joseph Polchinski, Professor of Physics and Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. Fellows are recognized for outstanding contributions to scholarly fields and professions. Polchinski was cited as one of the "leading field and string theorists of his generation...".NEW WING DEDICATION MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF INSTITUTE (10/04)
The institute celebrated 25 years of international leadership at a ceremony dedicating the new wing, designed by Michael Graves, award-winning architect of Kohn Hall, distinguished by its unique interplay of form and function. Over 8000 assignable square feet were added, including offices for visitors, a state-of-the-art auditorium, and a new tower housing the director's office on the ground floor, and a spectacular ocean-view salon on the second floor. The newly enclosed and canopied courtyard serves as a beautiful outdoor room for hosting receptions and conferences, complete with slate blackboards and tables, used for coffe and tea served each afternoon. The KITP welcomes donors interested in naming the new wing, and many of the spaces within Kohn Hall, home to this world renowned institute.
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