Latest News
-
Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP
In the spring of 1997, former graduate students at the UC San Diego invited Michael Freedman, a topologist awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, to give a talk at Microsoft Research. At the conclusion of that talk, an employee then there, physicist Nathan Myrvold, offered Freedman a job to work, more or less, on whatever he wanted.
Read more -
How to Tell a Fermion From a Boson
All particles in three-dimensional space are either bosons or fermions. What distinguishes one from the other is not a simple matter...
Read more -
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!”
Read more -
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.
Read more -
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.
Read more -
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?
Read more -
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?
Read more -
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.
Read more -
Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter
Condensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
Read more -
Inside the Virtual World of the KITP
‘A Wonderland of Far-Seeing on the Web’
Read more