Featured Newsletter Articles
Articles curated from our KITP Newsletters archive, please click the article's title or image to read the featured story.
Real-World Impact
A Testimonial from the KITP Teacher’s Conference
Read moreBruce Boehne, Middle School Math / Science / STEM Teacher at Zion Lutheran School, Dallas, Texas
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
A Meeting to Remember: The Polchinski Symposium
In December 2018, we held a one-day symposium to celebrate the life and career of late KITP Permanent Member Joe Polchinski.
Read moreRobert Leigh, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
and Eva M. Silverstein, Stanford
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
Waves of Change: KITP collaborators create a computational framework for fluid dynamics
The 2014 Wave-Flows program at the KITP was the ideal place to formulate Dedalus, an open-source computational framework that solves intricate classes of problems accurately and efficiently. Potential applications for Dedalus include fluid, chemical, radiation and biological transport problems in stars, planets, and laboratories.
Read moreMegan Turley, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
Director's Letter - Spring 2019
Our cover image for the Spring Newsletter is from Gary Smaby, a long-time KITP friend and supporter.
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
A Missing Flag
My journey in Physics started in my home country of Cameroon, completing a Master in Physics at the University of Buea in 2013 on the modelling of nerve impulses in biological neural networks. I then obtained a postgraduate diploma scholarship to study Condensed Matter Physics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Read moreEstelle Inack, Perimeter Institute
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
The Standard Siren
Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves, two KITP postdocs had a novel idea.
Read moreHarrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
A Fruitful Collaboration Continues
Each summer, the Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology runs alongside a KITP biology program, distinguishing itself by linking the program’s critical discussion and exploration of important theoretical topics to the lab projects.
Read moreHonour McCann, Massey University’s New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
Marking up the Periodic Table at KITP
One of KITP’s goals is to bring together theorists and experimentalists with different expertise to intensively study important issues
Read moreJennifer Johnson, Ohio State University and Inese Ivans, University of Utah
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019