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A New Resource for KITP Postdoctoral Scholars

Establishing a permanent legacy and named endowment in honor of Glen H. Mitchel, Jr.
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by Kristi Newton, Senior Director of Development, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

A Shot in the Dark

Researching one of the most puzzling unsolved problems in physics
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by Kristi Newton, Senior Director of Development, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

Director's Letter - Spring 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.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

FACTS

An international collaboration to advance condensed matter physics
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by Lucile Savary, FACTS Director, CNRS Permanent Researcher
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

Astrophysical Simulators Team Up to Better Understand Binaries and Disks

In the Spring of 2022, KITP hosted the program Bridging the Gap: Accretion and Orbital Evolution in Stellar and Black Hole Binaries.
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by Paul Duffell, Professor, Purdue University
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

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.
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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.
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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.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024