Featured Newsletter Articles
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Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields
When it’s time for an E. coli bacterium to divide, proteins inside the single-celled organism start to chase each other around.Read more
Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs, Senior Science Writer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Building Systems of Support
Scientific excellence drives all of KITP’s endeavors, and it is achieved through unfettered intellectual exchanges between each scientist who visits.Read more
Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Streaming Instability: Bringing Dust Particles and Scientists Together
The Earth and other planets started out as particles of dust in the disk of a young star.Read more
Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Free to Speculate
The convergence of physics and biology has enriched contemporary science research, even leading to new fields like evolutionary cell biology...Read more
Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Director's Letter - Fall 2024
We celebrated 30 years in Kohn Hall this summer.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Nature at the Munger Physics Residence
Over the last seven years that the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence has been housing KITP’s visiting researchers, an unexpected member of the community has become a local celebrity among the building’s staff and guests.Read more
Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Dedicating the Paul V. McEnroe Hall of Flags at the Munger Residence
Earlier this year, longtime Friend of KITP and UCSB Foundation Trustee, Tina McEnroe, made a generous planned gift commitment to the institute in honor of her husband and esteemed engineer, Paul McEnroe.Read more
Kristi Newton, KITP Senior Director of Development
KITP Newsletter, Summer 2024
Physicists gather to remember the father of quantum cosmology
Physicists from around the country converged at KITP from February 12-13, 2024, for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of KITP’s four cofounders who passed away in May 2023.Read more
Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Summer 2024