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The Joseph Polchinski Papers: A Legacy of Theoretical Physics
The UCSB Library recently finalized the processing and digitization of the faculty papers of renowned theoretical physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018).
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025 -
Director's Letter - Fall 2025
The banner image is a rendering of KITP House, our newest project aimed at enhancing collaborative science for the next century by providing housing for our postdoctoral scholars, graduate fellows and long-term sabbatical visitors.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2025 -
40 Years of Science at KITP
Explore four decades of breakthroughs at KITP!
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KITP Call for Proposals 2019
Now is the time to submit program pre-proposals or full proposals for the 2022-2023 academic year. Our activities consist of 2-4 month focused research programs. Pre-proposal submissions need not be elaborate — a title, at least two paragraphs explaining the idea, and suggestions for 2-4 organizers and 10-15 key participants, keeping in mind KITP's commitment to diversity and inclusion of under-represented groups. If you feel that your proposed program would benefit from a four day conference, please tell us how you see such an event impacting your program.Proposed coordinators must be willing and able to spend most of the program in residence at KITP. Members of the advisory board will review these pre-proposals and encourage the development of promising ones into full proposals in advance of the late February 2021 board meeting. -
A Stellar Physicist
UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist and KITP Director, Lars Bildsten, named as an inaugural fellow of the American Astronomical Society (Read more on The Current...)
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Coronavirus Update
Message from KITP Director, Lars Bildsten regarding Coronavirus
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An Accidental Astrophysicist
The American Astronomical Society honors an unlikely astrophysics leader from UC Santa Barbara.
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KITP 2021 Spring Newsletter -
Enhancing Research
The KITP launches a fellowship for physics faculty at minority-serving institutions
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022 -
KITP Director Awarded 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
DAVID J. GROSS, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called “the Standard Model” of the quantum mechanical picture of reality.
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New Kohn Hall Proves Whole Can Be More Than Sum Of Old and New Parts
Michael Graves Executes Design to Enhance Collaborations Among Physicists
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