News Archive
Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
International Kudos
Science academies in China and Russia recognize Nobel laureate David Gross for his continuing work in theoretical physics. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences awarded Gross an honorary doctorate degree, an event so rare in that country that it requires government approval. And more recently, the Russian Academy of Sciences confirmed Gross as a foreign member and awarded him the Medal of Honor in recognition of his “outstanding and fundamental contributions to quantum chromodynamics.”
Nuclear Physics in the Spotlight
From exploring nature’s most extreme environments to testing its most fundamental symmetries
Read moreZohreh Davoudi, MIT
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Stellar Simulators
Astrophysicists Matteo Cantiello and Yan-Fei Jiang at KITP will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars. The pair have been awarded 120 million CPU hours over two years on the supercomputer Mira — the sixth-fastest computer in the world — through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
Breaking Science Barriers: How the Munger Residence Makes a Difference
The recent KITP Program "Resurgent Asymptotics in Physics and Mathematics" benefited greatly from the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence. Many participants had taken part in previous KITP Programs, staying in random housing locations scattered around town, and all were amazed by the many differences made by the simple fact that the participants now live under the same roof.
Read moreGerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018
Remembering Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, who died Mar. 14 — Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day —had a brilliant mind and a puckish sense of humor
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018
From a Burrito Bag to Science Magazine
It often takes a few years for KITP collaborations to yield
Read moreThomas Gasenzer, University of Heidelberg
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018
An Entanglement of Physicists
An eclectic gathering at the KITP produces unexpected breakthroughs
Read moreRoger Melko, University of Waterloo Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018
Of Spins, Entanglements and Spooky Actions
KITP permanent member Leon Balents is appointed to the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Chair in Theoretical Physics
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018
Mourning the Loss of Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
Joe Polchinski, who passed away Feb. 2, left a tremendous professional and personal legacy, says a friend and collaborator Eva Silverstein
Read moreEva Silverstein, Stanford University
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018
More Ways to Connect: @KITP_UCSB
KITP has fostered connections amongst scientific communities for almost 40 years through well-defined and extended-stay interactive scientific programs, and by allowing space and time for deep and lasting collaborative relationships to develop. On January 1, 2018, we added a new venue for connecting our visiting scientists, the global scientific community, and science enthusiasts when we launched the @KITP_UCSB Twitter account.
Read moreLisa Stewart, KITP Chief Administrative Officer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Superstars’ Secrets
Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
Read moreSarah Webb, PhD, Senior Science Writer for Krell Institute
KITP New
Two KITP Programs Probed the Properties of Dark Matter
During the spring of 2018 particle physicists and astrophysicists gathered at KITP to participate in two complementary programs, one in the field of astrophysics and the other in the field of high energy physics. Both programs were aimed at shedding light on a puzzle that has excited a whole new generation of researchers.
Read moreProfessor Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist University
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Physics of Dense Suspensions and the Montecito Debris Flows
Dense suspensions are liquids that contain a large proportion of solid particles, and they exhibit a striking range of behaviors. Understanding this rich interplay of physics is at the frontier of the physics of “soft matter”, and formed the central theme of the “Physics of Dense Suspensions” program that took place at KITP in Spring 2018.
Read moreDouglas J. Jerolmack, Professor of Geophysics at University of Pennsylvania
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Leon Balents Elected to Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Leon Balents was elected as a member of the 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April of 2018. His selection, along with two additional UCSB professors, brings the total number of UCSB faculty members named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to 37.
Read moreAndrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Lars Bildsten Elected to Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize laureate David Gross wanted to be the first to break the news to KITP Director Lars Bildsten. So, with apologies for the early hour, he phoned his colleague at 6:30 a.m. on May 1, 2018 to congratulate him for being elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
A New Wrinkle in Physics
Postdoctoral scholar pushes beyond the boundaries of physics with his Café KITP talk on the brain’s physical structure
Read moreSonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
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
The Standard Siren
Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves, two KITP postdocs at UC Santa Barbara had a novel idea.
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