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The Standard Siren
Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves, two KITP postdocs at UC Santa Barbara had a novel idea.
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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
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Marking up the Periodic Table at KITP
One of KITP’s goals is to bring together theorists and experimentalists with different expertise to intensively study important issues
Read moreJennifer Johnson, Ohio State University and Inese Ivans, University of Utah
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Quantum Metals Meet Gravity
Our Fall 2018 KITP program “Chaos and Order: from Strongly Correlated Systems to Black Holes” was triggered by progress that occurred in two distinct steps over a period of more than twenty years. A paper in 1993 and a series of talks at KITP in 2015! These remarkable insights are now referred to as the SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev) model.
Read moreMark Bowick, KITP Deputy Director
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Leon Balents Appointed Co-Director of CIFAR’s Quantum Materials Program
Scientists have known for a long time that nature is quantum, following physical principles — at the atomic and molecular levels — that to the naked eye would seem counterintuitive and downright surreal.
Read moreSonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
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Seizing Opportunity
Carlos Marquez wasn’t too long returned from a four-year stint with the U.S. Army and looking for steady work when his brother referred him to his own employer, UC Santa Barbara. It’s a solid job, his brother promised, one he could settle into for a while.
Read moreShelly Leachman, The Current
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Speaking the Same Language: The Beginnings of Quantitative Biology at KITP
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, new technologies were allowing biologists to generate massive amounts of data, but such data could be messy, and taking advantage of it demanded new quantitative tools.
Read moreMaggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019 -
Where Scientific Method Meets Artistic License
Viewing science at KITP through a different lens
Read moreGary Smaby
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An Artistic Odyssey: Beloved interactive art piece Ulysses returns to Kohn Hall
We were very excited this month to see the return of Ulysses, the unique sculpture designed and built by KITP's Artist-in-Residence Jean-Pierre Hebert.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
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Real-World Impact
A Testimonial from the KITP Teacher’s Conference
Read moreBruce Boehne, Middle School Math / Science / STEM Teacher at Zion Lutheran School, Dallas, Texas
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019