News Archive
Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
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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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Clouds Raise Many a Question
Including the Curious Case of Cover Consistency
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Kachru and Silverstein Join KITP
In Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist, Turned Theoretical Biologist, Named First Holder
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Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist
In Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology Condensed Matter Theorist, Turned Theoretical Biologist, Named First Holder
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Earth’s Climate: More Science Needed
If there was one overriding conclusion to be drawn from the KITP pioneering effort to look at “The Physics of Climate Change,” it is “more science needed.”
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Likely Discovery Of Faint and Fast Supernova Confirms Predicted Explosion
An explosion — observable in theory, but never seen on the night sky – emerged a little over two years ago from calculations carried out by a team of astrophysicists, including KITP permanent member Lars Bildsten and postdoctoral fellow Nevin Weinberg, as well as UCSB physics graduate student Ken Shen and Bildsten’s long-time Dutch collaborator Gijs Nelemans of Radboud University in Nijmegen.
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Visiting Scholar Residence
Building Update
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Entanglement Bridges the Gap at KITP
Gravity, quantum information, and condensed matter find common ground
Read moreRoger Melko, KITP ENTANGLED15 Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
