Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
"The mind is what the brain does," as the pioneering artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky once said. So it’d be fantastic to understand at what level of anatomy, or complexity, the brain actually carries out its processing and computation.
This quandary is precisely what captivates Fatih Dinc, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and Geometric Intelligence Lab. Read more
Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics Lars Bildsten, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2026. Read more
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists whose discoveries are significantly driving growth of human knowledge. Read more
Physics of intelligence
Join KITP Postdoctoral Scholar Fatih Dinç to explore how different systems, human brains, computer programs, and other machines store, process, and use information — in other words, how do they perform computations? Learn more about Café KITP.
When KITP’s visitors arrive at Kohn Hall before they dig into their science and collaborations, they wonder, “How do I get into the building? Where is my office?” And of course, “Where is the coffee?”
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025
KITP Postdoc Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld is awarded for outstanding dissertation in nuclear physics by the American Physical Society.
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Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs & Communications
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025
Bill Paxton ingrained himself into astrophysics, and into the astrophysics community, in an indelible manner.
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Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs & Communications
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025
For us, the KITP has come to symbolize the cementing of a deep friendship and the inception of a lasting professional partnership.
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James Dent and Joel Walker
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025
The Fall 2025 KITP Newsletter is now available! Read more.
The UCSB Library recently finalized the processing and digitization of the faculty papers of renowned theoretical physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018).
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UCSB Library
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025
The banner image is a rendering of KITP House, our newest project aimed at enhancing collaborative science for the next century by providing housing for our postdoctoral scholars, graduate fellows and long-term sabbatical visitors.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025
Explore four decades of breakthroughs at KITP!
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UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist and KITP Director, Lars Bildsten, named as an inaugural fellow of the American Astronomical Society (Read more on The Current...)
Message from KITP Director, Lars Bildsten regarding Coronavirus
The American Astronomical Society honors an unlikely astrophysics leader from UC Santa Barbara.
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Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP 2021 Spring Newsletter
The KITP launches a fellowship for physics faculty at minority-serving institutions
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Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022
DAVID J. GROSS, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called “the Standard Model” of the quantum mechanical picture of reality.
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Michael Graves Executes Design to Enhance Collaborations Among Physicists
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Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.
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