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KITP Residence Designed to LEED Specifications
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.
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Research Reunions
A new program enables visiting scientists to return to UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics to work together again in small groups.
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
Getting Ready for the Precision Frontier at the LHC
High-energy physics has entered a new era of discovery as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory has begun colliding protons at an energy almost 7 times greater than the best previous machine.
Read moreRadja Bougezhal, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello, Laura Reina, and Doreen Wackeroth;
LHC Run II and the Precision Frontier Program Coordinators
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
See you in the Smellyverse
Olfaction is the final frontier of our senses, the one that is still mysterious to us. Despite large amounts of genetic, physiological, and perceptual data, many fundamental questions about our sense of smell remain unresolved.
Read moreAlexei Koulakov, Deconstructing the Sense of Smell Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
In Memoriam: Dr. Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn saw the very worst the world has to offer — and he also saw the very best
Read moreShelly Leachman and Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
Moving the Internet
Residence Project Required a Delicate Operation
Read moreMatt Erickson, UCSB ETS Communications & Outreach Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Tissue Cartography
Postdoctoral scholars have developed a way to reduce dynamic bio-image data to 2-D
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Magnetic Hide and Seek
Researchers develop a new technique to detect magnetic fields inside stars
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Importance of the Family Fund to Visiting Scientists
Because it takes extended interactions to substantively explore ideas together and do collaborative work, visits of several weeks to entire academic years are integral to the success of our programs. The Family Fund is a crucial resource for enabling scientists to make these extended visits to the KITP.
Read moreMaggie Sherriffs, KITP Program Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
The Nose Knows
Collaboration among international scientists is helping to resolve questions about the sense of smell
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016