KITP

KITP research programs are designed by the best scientists.  The KITP Advisory Board members, in conjunction with the director and permanent members, act as a conduit for input on programming solicited from the physics community.  Those topnotch scientists on the Advisory Board and in-house meet and discuss program possibilities with one another, and then select and shape the programs.  Quality programming emerges from this formative process.

Scientists design research programs for scientists, and doing so determines how money allocated for research at KITP is spent year by year.  Active successful researchers make decisions about the research best to support.  And the funded research programs succeed in a highly competitive winnowing that occurs in the annual process of KITP program creation.  Decision-making is kept close to science.

KITP provides a highly flexible, cost-effective and adaptive platform for doing science.  That platform is designed to run the best programs, geared to ongoing basic science research that is very wide-ranging.  In addition to and in conjunction with programs, there are shorter conferences for a wider audience.  But the long programs comprise the core of the KITP model because deep real-time human interactions—collaboration--take time, and are highly stimulating and productive of breakthroughs and the high impact research for which KITP has been recognized as number one.