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Microscopic footage, harrowing personal stories, and expert insights propel "Resistance," the story of antibiotic resistance, starting from the mass production of antibiotics 70 years ago, to their incipient failure in the 21st century.  In conjunction with the on-going KITP program on "Evolution of Drug Resistance," this discussion and film screening will bring together researchers from the medical, biological, and physical sciences to delve into the mechanisms and dynamics of drug resistance.  A panel discussion with KITP visiting scientists and the filmmaker Michael Graziano will precede screening, Q&A will follow.

KITP deputy director Greg Huber collaborates with colleagues to describe the geometry of a common cellular structure 
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015

Charlie Munger has announced his $65,000,000 donation to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. This donation will be used to build and furnish a Residence for the KITP's visiting scientists. Designed with physicists in mind, this 75,000 square foot facility will house the majority of KITP's thousand yearly visitors and their families in a comfortable and intimate setting that inspires informal scientific interactions. The visitor offices and intense collaborative interactions that are the hallmark of KITP's mission will, of course, remain in Kohn Hall.

 UCSB Press Release About KITP Residence

Joseph Polchinski, a permanent member of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and a professor of Physics at UCSB, is the recipient of the 2014 Fundamental Physics Prize from the Milner Foundation. The announcement was made today at a special ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

The KITP Director Lars Bildsten said: “I am ecstatic that Joe's impact has been recognized this way. His wonderful KITP public lecture this past March reminded me of the breadth and depth of his insights across a broad range of theoretical physics.”

[UCSB Press Release]

Fred Kavli, founder of the Kavli Foundation and science philanthropist, passed away on Nov. 21, 2013. A strong supporter of theoretical physics, Kavli's contributions to the KITP enabled a dramatic transformation of the Institute's activities through the physical expansion of Kohn Hall, and the initiation of an endowment to support the visits of more than 1,000 physicists per year to the facility. More information on Fred Kavli can be found at The Kavli Foundation.

Fred Gluck, best known for his legendary performance at the helm of the leading international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has given $1 million to endow the chair of the director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). David Gross, who came from Princeton University in 1997 to serve as director of the Institute, is the first Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics.

Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.

Physicists and biologists don't usually mix, and when they do, things can get messy. But the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP) is trying to change that. For more than 30 years, this prestigious research facility, which in 2007 was rated by a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as one of America's most influential research institutes, has been pairing the world's brightest physicists with scholars from diverse fields in an effort to answer a wide-range of scientific questions - most recently, the evolution of multicellular life.

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