News Archive
Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
Rapid Response to Supersolidity: ‘Is It There or Is It Not?’ May Be the Answer as Well as the Question
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”
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Coordinating Housing Resembles 3-Dimensional Chess
Director David Gross is accustomed to explaining the logistics of KITP operations to audiences around the world who wish to emulate it as a retreat facility for scientific research.
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Observers of Star-Forming Confer With Its Simulators
Within the “Star Formation ” program, Alyssa Goodman, of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ran a workshop on large surveys of nearby star formation regions.
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How Do Stars Form? Differently, at Different Cosmic Times
How rapidly do stars form? What explains the distribution of the mass of the stars that form?
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How Brains Think About Themselves When They Come Together to Consider That Question Systematically
How have brains been optimized over the course of evolution to be very good at what they do? How have evolutionary forces and natural selection shaped brain architecture?
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What Is Special About the KITP Mode For Doing Science?
The KITP enables scientists to interact in a way that differs significantly from the ways provided by the customary venues for interaction, as the following account shows.
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Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter
Condensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
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Inside the Virtual World of the KITP
‘A Wonderland of Far-Seeing on the Web’
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KITP Ranks First In Research Impact
How can the performance of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics be measured and assessed?
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Secondary School Teachers Sample Stellar Treats
On March 17 the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics hosted its annual conference for secondary school science teachers from throughout the United States
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Thermonuclear Explosions Cause Most Heated of Discussions
KITP’s Resident Astrophysicist Describes Fusion Reactions
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Stellar End Products: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Black Holes
Degenerate Star Program Participants Grapple With Many Open Questions
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Structure of Dark Matter, The Backbone of the Universe
Questions of Dark Matter Sub-Structure, Isothermal Relation Between Dark and Visible Matter Dominate Discussion
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Polchinski Receives Prestigious Heineman Prize
Joseph Polchinski, a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, has been named 2007 recipient of the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
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String Phenomenology Revs Up in Anticipation Of LHC Turn on
String theory, initially conceived in the late 1960s to explain the strong force that traps quark triplets in protons and neutrons, is no longer all that “new.”
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Scholars Program Infuses Vitality Into Research Efforts Of Physicists Who Mostly Teach Undergraduates
“Coming to Santa Barbara as a KITP scholar is like joining a brotherhood in a place of worship..."
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From the Heart
"Cardiac Dynamics,” a month-long, KITP mini-program held in the summer of 2006, brought together physicists, cardiologists, and biomedical scientists and engineers for interdisciplinary collaboration on the application of techniques of non-linear dynamics to understanding the sub-set of cardiac arrhythmias that are potentially fatal.
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Why Care About Type Ia Supernovae?
In April of 1006 occurred the brightest stellar event so far in recorded history, visible for months at a time, on and off, for years afterward.
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Complexity Expert Plays Key Role Mixing Physics and Ecology
Three or, perhaps, four significant innovations characterized the “Physics of Climate Change” program...
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Novel Research Collaboration Leads to Discovery Of ‘Fire in the Earth System’
Fire is to be considered not only as a consequence of global warming, but also causal in the inexorable chain reaction of a positive feedback mechanism.
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